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Putting the Polio Workforce to Work in a Public Health Crisis: Contributions of the National Stop Transmission of Polio (NSTOP) Program to the COVID-19 Response in Pakistan [PDF]

Vaccines
Background: Pakistan reported its first case of COVID-19 in February 2020 and joined other countries in activating a national emergency response following the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Aslam Pervaiz, Rana Muhammad Safdar, Mumtaz Ali Laghari, Nadeem Shah, Amjad Mehmood, Kifayat Ullah, Richard Franka, Chukwuma Mbaeyi   +7 more
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Effects of muscle strengthening and cardiovascular fitness activities for poliomyelitis survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2021
Objective: To evaluate and assess the effectiveness of muscle strengthening and cardiovascular interventions in improving outcomes in poliomyelitis (polio) survivors.
Akhilesh Kumar Ramachandran, Stephen P.J. Goodman, Michael J. Jackson, Timothy J.H.   +3 more
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Vaccine Hesitancy and Perceptions of the Community about Polio in High-Risk Areas of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Vaccines, 2022
The study aimed to determine the reasons for polio vaccine hesitancy among parents of persistently missed children (PMCs) in the high-risk areas of Karachi, Pakistan. A cross-sectional survey of parents of PMCs was conducted in April 2019 in 34 high-risk
Fayaz Hussain Abbasi, Ahmed Ali Shaikh, Jaishri Mehraj, Syed Musa Raza, Shumaila Rasool, Umar Farooq Bullo, Sandeep Mehraj, Zamir Ali Phul, Sundeep Sahitia, Asif Ali Zardari, Shoukat Ali Chandio   +10 more
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An experience of mass administration of fractional dose inactivated polio vaccine through intradermal needle-free injectors in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) campaign was conducted in February 2019 in Karachi where needle-free injectors were introduced for the administration of the fractional dose of IPV (fIPV) on a large scale.
Umar Farooq Bullo, Jaishri Mehraj, Syed Musa Raza, Shumaila Rasool, Noreen Naz Ansari, Ahmed Ali Shaikh, Zamir Ali Phul, Sohail Ahmed Memon, Rehan Iqbal Baloch, Zahoor Ahmed Baloch, Shoukat Ali Chandio   +10 more
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Effectiveness of a community-level social mobilization intervention in achieving the outcomes of polio vaccination campaigns during the post-polio-endemic period: Evidence from CORE Group polio project in Uttar Pradesh, India

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background A social mobilization (SM) initiative contributed to India’s success in polio elimination. This was the CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) India, a partner of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) SM Network and which continued its SM activities, even during ...
Manojkumar Choudhary, Roma Solomon, Jitendra Awale, Rina Dey, Jagajeet Prasad Singh, William Weiss   +5 more
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Community-based survey to assess seroprevalence of poliovirus antibodies in far-north Cameroon in 2020

Vaccine: X, 2022
Background: This study assessed seroprevalence of poliovirus antibodies in children from selected poliovirus high-risk areas of the Far North region of Cameroon which serves to monitor polio immunization program. Methods: This was a community-based cross-
Marie Claire Endegue, Carolyn Sein, Rocio Lopez Cavestany, Visalakshi Jeyaseelan, Tess Palmer, Gnakub Norbert Soke, Aissata Diaha, Basit Jafri, Bernardo A. Mainou, Harish Verma, Ondrej Mach   +10 more
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The Polio Model. Does it apply to polio? [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2002
According to the polio model, severity of disease increases with age at infection. Firstborn children and people belonging to small families are generally infected later and should accordingly have a higher risk of severe polio. However, this model does contradict other explanations of severity of childhood infections including the intensive-exposure ...
Nielsen, Nete Munk, Aaby, Peter, Wohlfahrt, Jan, Moølbak, Kåre, Melbye, Mads   +4 more
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Surviving polio in a post-polio world [PDF]

Social Science & Medicine, 2014
Excitement mounts as the global health and international development communities anticipate a polio-free world. Despite substantial political and logistical hurdles, only 223 cases of wild poliovirus in three countries were reported in 2012. Down 99% from the estimated 350,000 annual cases in 125 countries in 1988-this decline signals the imminent ...
Groce, NE, Banks, LM, Stein, MA
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Diphtheria resurgence in Sada'a-Yemen, 2017–2020

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Diphtheria is a contagious vaccine-preventable disease that contributes to the high morbidity and mortality among under 5 children, especially in Yemen.
Ahmed Abdallah Al-Dar, Mutahar Al-Qassimi, Faten Hamid Ezzadeen, Mohammed Qassime, Ahmed Mohamed Al murtadha, Yasser Ghaleb   +5 more
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Demand-side determinants of timely vaccination of oral polio vaccine in social mobilization network areas of CORE Group polio project in Uttar Pradesh, India

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Children who receive all doses of scheduled vaccines reduce their susceptibility to vaccine-preventable diseases. In India, full immunization coverage has increased significantly.
Manojkumar Choudhary, Roma Solomon, Jitendra Awale, Rina Dey   +3 more
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