Integration, community engagement, and polio eradication in Nigeria

Integration, community engagement, and polio eradication in Nigeria - authors' reply.

www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 2 June 2014 e316 but also the local media and relatives. Obtaining health infor mation via religious leaders strongly aff ected the probability that a child had received OPV, but health workers and town announcers also had a substantial effect on the probability of a child being vaccinated against poliovirus. Because targeted social mobilisation is an eff ective w...

Strategic Engagement of Technical Surge Capacity for Intensified Polio Eradication Initiative in Nigeria, 2012–2015

BACKGROUND Following the 65th World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution on intensification of the Global Poliomyelitis Eradication Initiative (GPEI), the Nigerian government, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners, implemented a number of innovative strategies to curb the transmission of wild poliovirus (WPV) in the country. One of the innovations successfully imp...

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...