Adapting Nepal’s polio eradication programme

Adapting Nepal’s polio eradication programme

PROBLEM Many countries have weak disease surveillance and immunization systems. The elimination of polio creates an opportunity to use staff and assets from the polio eradication programme to control other vaccine-preventable diseases and improve disease surveillance and immunization systems. APPROACH In 2003, the active surveillance system of Nepal's polio eradication programme began to repo...

Polio eradication programme: some ethical issues.

In 2000 and 2001 there were 265 and 268 virologicallyconfirmed polio cases respectively, in India. In 2002 the number increased to 1,600. In response to some questions raised by the author (1), Dr Jay Wenger, project manager of the National Polio Surveillance Project of the WHO (NPSP-WHO), stated: “...the outbreak of 2002 and the problems of polio eradication were not caused by the failure of O...

Polio eradication.

The goal of polio eradication in the Western Pacific Region is within reach. The last case of polio seen in the region occurred in Cambodia in March 1997 and the region aims to be certified polio-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the year 2000. The Global Commission for Certification of Eradication of Poliomyelitis has specified three criteria to be fulfilled by countries in order ...

Polio eradication in India: pulse polio immunization.

The magnitude of the public health program for the eradication of poliomyelitis launched by the Government of India and the State Governments has few parallels. Over 87.77 million children, including 79.29 million children less than three years of age, were given a dose of oral polio on one day throughout the country on 9 December 1995. In the second round on 20 January 1996 over 93.118 million...

Polio eradication, and after...