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Securing the Future: Strategies for Global Polio Vaccine Security Amid Eradication Efforts

Vaccines
Background/Objectives: As we commemorate 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), the global mission to eradicate polio stands at a critical juncture.
Vachagan Harutyunyan, Ann Ottosen, Rachel M. Burke, Derek Ehrhardt, Meredith Shirey, Rissa Durham, David Woods   +6 more
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Is vaccination the only option for possible global malaria eradication? [PDF]

, 2006
In the last century, vaccines, together with the discovery of antibiotics have been powerful tools in the management of infectious diseases. Both were of particular importance in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with infections prevailing ...
Tonna, Ivan
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The Scourge of Poliomyelitis in Pakistan: Barrier towards its eradication

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Poliomyelitis is an extremely disabling disease caused bythe polio virus, a virus belonging to Picornaviridae family.Humans are the only natural host. The virus principallyinvolves the motor neurons resulting in permanentasymmetrical lifelong paralysis.
Aisha Mehnaz
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Global Goals – the UN experience [PDF]

human development, millennium development goals ...
Richard Jolly
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Polio eradication [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2001
openaire   +2 more sources

Polio: abandoning eradication would result in rapid resurgence of an ancient scourge

BMJ Global Health, 2019
Roland Walter Sutter, Michel Jose Zaffran   +1 more
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Surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis in Hong Kong: 1997 to 2002 [PDF]

, 2005
Objectives. To describe the characteristics of patients reported with acute flaccid paralysis between 1997 and 2002, and to evaluate the performance of the acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system using indicators recommended by the World Health ...
Chan, KY, Lam, RMK, Lam, TH, Lau, YL, Leung, NK, Lim, WL, Tsang, THF   +6 more
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Vaccination services—not populations—are ‘hard-to-reach’: what can health authorities in Africa do to improve access?

Discover Public Health
Immunization coverage inequity is a serious problem in many African countries, and this has implications for the persistent spread of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Abdu A. Adamu, Chukwudi A. Nnaji, Charles S. Wiysonge   +2 more
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Polio Vaccine and Polio Eradication Initiative. Progress of Polio Eradication in China.

Uirusu, 1997
Y, Chiba, M, Hara
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Eradication of Polio by Vaccination

Virology, 2000
The first effective vaccines against poliomyelitis were theformalin-inactivated preparations developed by Jonas Salkwhich were extensively used beginning in the mid 1950s.The live attenuated strains developed by Albert Sabin wereintroduced in the early 1960s, largely because of the diffi-culties of producing sufficient killed virus vaccine with ...
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