Polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan: a step towards eradication or still a challenge in hand? [PDF]
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020 Polio is an acute viral disease that is still endemic in Pakistan. The polio vaccination program is facing many challenges that result in an increased number of new cases.
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Safety and Clinical Benefits of Adacel® and Adacel®-Polio Vaccination in Pregnancy: A Structured Literature Review [PDF]
Infectious Diseases and Therapy, 2023 Vaccination in pregnancy using a tetanus toxoid, reduced dose diphtheria toxoid, and reduced dose acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine is important for prevention of severe pertussis disease in young infants.
Liana R. Clark, David R. Johnson
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Targeting the last polio sanctuaries with Directly Observed Oral Polio Vaccination (DOPV) in northern Nigeria, (2014–2016) [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2018 Background The declaration of poliomyelitis eradication as a programmatic emergency for global public health by the 65th World Health Assembly in 2012 necessitated innovations and strategies to achieve results. Review of the confirmed polio cases in 2013
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The Professional Medical Journal, 2018 Objective: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) about poliomyelitis(polio) vaccination in District Abbottabad, province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan,to identify reasons of failure of polio vaccination/ eradication campaign and to makerecommendations in the light of the study.
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016 INTRODUCTION: polio eradication is now feasible after removal of Nigeria from the list of endemic countries and global reduction of cases of wild polio virus in 2015 by more than 80%. However, all countries must remain focused to achieve eradication.
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Polio vaccination activities in conflict-affected areas. [PDF]
Hum Vaccin Immunother, 2023 Conflict poses a threat to the stability of health-care systems around the world. Within the context of immunization service delivery, conflict-affected geographies are often dogged by recurrent disease outbreaks due to the inability to administer life ...
Mbaeyi C.
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Delays in polio vaccination programs due to COVID-19 in Pakistan: a major threat to Pakistan's long war against polio virus. [PDF]
Public Health, 2020 Din M, Asghar M, Ali M.
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What are the barriers and facilitators to polio vaccination and eradication programs? A systematic review. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public Health, 2022 Global efforts to eradicate polio by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative agency partners and country-level stakeholders have led to the implementation of global polio vaccination programs.
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Significance of a social mobilization intervention for engaging communities in polio vaccination campaigns: Evidence from CORE Group Polio Project, Uttar Pradesh, India. [PDF]
J Glob Health, 2021 Background Globally, community engagement is an integral part of most public health programs and the social mobilization (SM) intervention of India’s polio eradication program is one such example that contributed to eliminating polio from the country ...
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Prosocial polio vaccination in Israel. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance An individual’s decision to vaccinate can be motivated by both self-interest and prosociality, making it difficult to delineate the contribution of prosociality to vaccination uptake.
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