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THE LAST MILE IN GLOBAL POLIO ERADICATION

THE LAST MILE IN GLOBAL POLIOMYELITIS ERADICATION Best viewed at http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)60744-7/fulltext The Lancet, Volume 378, Issue 9791, Pages 549 - 552, 13 August 2011 Published Online: 09 June ... read more

REPORT OF THE GPEI INDEPENDENT MONITORING BOARD

  REPORT OF THE GPEI INDEPENDENT MONITORING BOARD Executive summary below; full text is at http://www.polioeradication.org/Portals/0/Document/Aboutus/Governance/IMB/4IMBMeeting/IMBReportOctober2011.pdf     1. Every country wit ... read more

POLIO IN NIGERIA

  POLIO IN NIGERIA ‘. . . the continued circulation of WPV and cVDPV2 during 2011 in six states and evidence of limitations in AFP surveillance indicate that substantial further improvements are needed in the quality of implementatio ... read more

ESTIMATING THE EXTENT OF VACCINE-DERIVED POLIOVIRU ...

ESTIMATING THE EXTENT OF VACCINE-DERIVED POLIOVIRUS INFECTION ‘Although only 114 virologically-confirmed paralytic cases were identified in the eight cVDPV outbreaks [reviewed], it is likely that a minimum of hundreds of thousands, and mor ... read more

A STATISTICAL MODEL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPREAD OF ...

A STATISTICAL MODEL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPREAD OF WILD POLIOVIRUS IN AFRICA USED TO PREDICT AND PREVENT OUTBREAKS Abstract and introduction below; full text, with equations and graphics, is at         http:/ ... read more

POLIO IN INDIA

‘Elimination of WPV in India will establish that WPV transmission can be interrupted even in the most challenging of settings, remove the threat of importation from India, and provide impetus to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative goal of i ... read more

INACTIVATED POLIO VACCINE AND GLOBAL POLIO ERADICA ...

‘Estívariz and colleagues' findings show the potential for a single IPV dose to improve protection for infants who have received trivalent OPV, according to recommendations from WHO's expanded programme on immunisation.’ This di ... read more

INACTIVATED POLIO VACCINE AND GLOBAL POLIO ERADICA ...

 ‘Estívariz and colleagues' findings show the potential for a single IPV dose to improve protection for infants who have received trivalent OPV, according to recommendations from WHO's expanded programme on immunisation.’ I ... read more