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Visualization of the Evolution and Transmission of Circulating Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus (cVDPV) Outbreaks in the African Region

Bio-Protocol
Since the creation of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988, significant progress has been made toward attaining a poliovirus-free world. This has resulted in the eradication of wild poliovirus (WPV) serotypes two (WPV2) and three (WPV3)
D. Owuor, Brook Tesfaye, Arthur Wakem, Sakma Kabore, Caroline Ikeonu, Mariette Doussoh, Priscilla Sigala, Idris Ibrahim, Abdullateef Jimoh, Idah Ndumba, Jermaine Khumalo, David Oviaesu, Cheroigin Kipchirchir, Carolyne Gathenji, John Kipterer, Kebba Touray, Hamisu Abdullahi, Kathleen Rankin, Ousmane Diop, Julius Chia, Ndoutabe Modjirom, Jamal Ahmed, Anfumbom Kfutwah   +22 more
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Harnessing laboratory data for poliovirus eradication: contributions of the Africa regional polio laboratory data management team, 2022 – 2024

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update
Background and Objectives: Polio laboratory data is crucial in providing timely and accurate information on poliovirus outbreaks and therefore an important component of the overall poliovirus eradication strategies. This paper discusses the contributions
Brook Tesfaye, Reggis Katsande, Doungmo Wakem Yannick Arthur, Julius E Chia, Chefor Ymele Demeveng Derrick, Ikeonu Obianuju Caroline, Kabore Sakma, Mahmud Zubairu, Busisiwe Ngobe, Abdulahi Walla Hamisu, Ticha Johnson Muluh, Kebba Touray, Modjirom Ndoutabe, Jamal A Ahmed, Anfumbom Kfutwah   +14 more
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Epidemiology and genetic characterization of orphan polioviruses in Africa, 2022–2024: Unmasking silent transmission and implications for eradication

Vaccine: X
Background: The continued detection of orphan polioviruses, defined by ≥ 1.5 % nucleotide divergence in the VP1-coding region of the virus compared with the VP1 of previous circulating isolates, presents a significant challenge to polio eradication ...
Brook Tesfaye, Julius E. Chia, Terna Nomhwange, D. Collins Owuor, Ticha Johnson Muluh, Safdar Nosheen, Arthur Yannick Doungmo Wakem, Abdullateef Jimoh, Akif Saatcioglu, Kebba Touray, Abdulahi Walla Hamisu, Modjirom Ndoutabe, Jamal A. Ahmed, Anfumbom Kfutwah   +13 more
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WHO Polio Eradication Program: Problems and Solutions

Педиатрическая фармакология, 2016
In 2013 WHO re-evaluated its main goals of the polio eradication program. A modernization program was accepted with regard to the National vaccination calendars worldwide which includes a step-by-step refusal from the living polio vaccine (OPV) and a ...
S. M. Kharit, V. S. Pokrovsky, A. A. Ruleva, I. V. Fridman   +3 more
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Polio

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2022
Pucchio, Aoife M.R., Alabdulraheem, Anwar, Salvadori, Marina I.   +2 more
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Brokers, Collaborators and Knowledge Translators: Expanding the Role of Research Assistants in Geographic Research

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
wiley   +1 more source

Certification of global polio eradication

, 2002
WHO/POLIO/02.032 ...
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
core  

Bladder washing cytology in the initial evaluation of patients with neuro‐urological disorders: to do or not to do?

BJU International, EarlyView.
Objectives To evaluate if bladder washing cytology (BWC) provides a diagnostic benefit in the initial evaluation of patients with neuro‐urological disorders. Patients and Methods This prospective cross‐sectional study investigated a consecutive series of patients with lower urinary tract symptoms referred for neuro‐urological evaluation at our ...
Fabienne Lehner, Sarah Dugas, Veronika Birkhäuser, Oliver Gross, Lorenz Leitner, Ulrich Mehnert, Lara Stächele, Collene E. Anderson, Thomas M. Kessler   +8 more
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Global Polio Eradication : progress 1999

, 2000
WHO/polio/00.0321 ...
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
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“ Build back the confidence”: qualitative exploration of community experiences with polio vaccination in the Covid-19 context in Cameroon and Ethiopia

BMC Public Health
Background In 2020, as the Global Polio Eradication Initiative worked to address outbreaks of vaccine-derived poliovirus Type 2, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, the Covid-19 pandemic suspended routine immunization campaigns worldwide.
Lara Lorenzetti, Chaudhary Mohd Parvez Alam, Emily Namey, Claude Monj, Ademe Tsegaye, Nasir Ateeq, Douglas Mbang Massom, Grace McLain, Soterine Tsanga, Ross Mcintosh   +9 more
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