Thursday, 6th of June 2013 |
Full text of http://www.polioeradication.org/Portals/0/Document/Aboutus/Governance/IMB/8IMBMeeting/8IMB_Report_EN.pdf
The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for polio eradication has underscored that ‘stopping polio transmission by end 2014 is a realistic prospect’. In the report of its 7-9 May meeting, the Board commended the programme on the fundamental changes that have transformed the effort into a more responsive and coordinated health initiative, which has brought polio to the lowest levels ever.
At the same time, however, the IMB put forward key recommendations to address fundamental changes that are still needed. In the words of the IMB: “Whilst the poliovirus has been knocked down, it is certainly not knocked out… In the midst of so many strengths, why focus on the weaknesses? Because the poliovirus will seize on them. Impressive as recent progress has been, the IMB is firmly of the view that the task of stopping transmission in the remaining endemic areas is enormous and should not be under-estimated.”
The IMB highlighted three programme areas in particular that needed to be addressed:
1. Communications & social mobilization: across the entire Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a fundamental change is essential to ensure that parental and community concerns about vaccine safety and efficacy can be adequately addressed, and to generate genuine demand for polio vaccinations.
2. Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) in endemic countries: a final decision is urgently required (by end-2013) whether to introduce IPV in the remaining endemic countries prior to the universal introduction of IPV as outlined in the new Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018.
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