Re:"Transmissibility and persistence of oral polio vaccine viruses: implications for the global poliomyelitis eradicatio...
Published in American journal of epidemiology
Published in American journal of epidemiology
Published in BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Published in Lancet (London, England)
Negotiating protection against poliomyelitis has been a very difficult issue in Somalia, particularly in the conflict zone of Mogadishu where most of the remaining reservoirs of wild polio are found. This article focuses on the polio eradication campaign conducted by the WHO in the danger zones of Somalia. The importance of such a campaign is accou...
Published in East African medical journal
A retrospective ecological study was carried out to analyze the effect of cards and vitamin A supplementation on coverage for National Immunization Days (NIDs) in Uganda. Commenced in 1996, NIDs for polio eradication in Uganda are implemented twice a year, one month apart. During the second round of 1998 NIDs, cards were introduced nationally and v...
Published in Journal of the Indian Medical Association
Globally, vaccines are administered to a number of healthy individuals, mostly infants, in the National Immunization Programs (NIPs). Hence safety and quality issues are of paramount importance. Problems in vaccine quality can have a major negative impact on NIPs. Unsafe or ineffective vaccines threaten to disable vaccine delivery systems that migh...
Published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization
The global initiative to eradicate poliomyelitis is focusing on a small number of countries in Africa (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan) and Asia (Afghanistan, Tajikistan), where progress has been hindered by armed conflict. In these countries the disintegration of health systems and difficulties of ac...
Published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Disease eradication as a public health strategy was discussed at international meetings in 1997 and 1998. In this article, the ongoing poliomyelitis eradication initiative is examined using the criteria for evaluating candidate diseases for eradication proposed at these meetings, which covered costs and benefits, biological determinants of eradicab...
Published in Journal of the Indian Medical Association
In 1988, The World Health Assembly committed WHO and its member states to the goal of poliomyelitis eradication by the year 2000. Global progress in implementation of strategies include routine and supplementary immunisation, AFP surveillance strategy and mopping up. Progress made in global polio eradication within 10 years has been dramatic. Chall...
Published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization
In 1996, China adopted a virological classification of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases for its surveillance system. Only AFP cases with wild poliovirus in stool specimens are confirmed as polio. Cases with adequate stool specimens that are negative for wild poliovirus are not counted. This paper describes a methodology to rule out poliomyelitis...
Published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Over the years, it has been made clear that the eradication drive of polio virus is on the way to a successful conclusion even in countries driven by conflict or with only rudimentary health services. Worldwide, in the 11 years since the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eradicate polio, estimated numbers of paralytic polio cases have fa...