Promising opportunities to improve polio vaccines

Polio Endgame, Information Gaps Related to Vaccines and Immunity.

Evidence generated through research studies has guided programmatic actions and fine-tuned strategies for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). However, many gaps still persist in the understanding of a risk-free implementation of the polio endgame. Immediate concerns relate to the introduction of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and switch from trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to b...

Challenges, Opportunities, and Promising Directions

Contemporary IP-based Internet architecture increasingly is unable to meet the demands of current network usage patterns. Content-centric networking (CCN), as a clean-slate future network architecture, is different from existing IP networks and has some salient features, such as in-network caching, name-based routing, friendly mobility, and built-in security. This architecture has a profound im...

Polio vaccines and polio immunization in the pre-eradication era: WHO position paper--recommendations.

This article presents the WHO recommendations on the use of polio vaccines excerpted from the recently published Polio vaccines and polio immunization in the pre-eradication era: WHO position paper. This document replaces the WHO position paper entitled Introduction of inactivated poliovirus vaccine into oral poliovirus vaccine-using countries published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record in J...

BRICS: opportunities to improve road safety.

Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa--the countries known as BRICS--are currently undergoing a deep epidemiological transition that is mainly driven by rapid economic growth and technological change. The changes being observed in the distribution of the burden of diseases and injuries--such as recent increases in the incidence of road traffic injuries--are matters of co...

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