Global Immunization Programs: A Summary and Consideration of Polio Vaccine Programs

Since the global polio eradication initiative was first adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1988, most of the global progress toward polio eradication has been NID in Sri Lanka highlighted by the achievements of the The last virologically confirmed case of Americas and the Western Pacific Region. [...] Polio the immunization programs in the north part of the country, and eradication was was eradicated in six of the ten member not completed [47]. [...] The risks of paralytic poliomyelitis occurring in the post-certification era fall into two major categories: risks related to the continued use of the OPV and risks associated with the unsafe handling of wild polioviruses. [...] The initiative to eradicate polio from the Americas was launched in May 1985, with the goal of interrupting transmission of the disease by the end of 1990. [...] Baicus, A., et al., The maintaining of the active laboratory-based surveillance of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases in Romania in the framework of the strategic plan of the global polio eradication initiative.