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A child receives oral polio vaccine during a 2002 campaign to immunize children in India. Poliovirus. Polio eradication, the goal of permanent global cessation of circulation of the poliovirus and hence elimination of the poliomyelitis (polio) it causes, is the aim of a multinational public health effort begun in 1988, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's ...
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is an initiative created in 1988, just after the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate the disease poliomyelitis. [1] Led by the World Health Organization , it is the largest international public health initiative in history.
WHO passed a resolution to eradicate polio in 1988, spurred on by the success of eliminating smallpox eight years earlier. Their original target was to wipe out polio by 2000.
A global effort to eradicate polio – the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – began in 1988, led by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and The Rotary Foundation. [94] Polio is one of only two diseases currently the subject of a global eradication program, the other being Guinea worm disease. [98]
Today, the effort to eradicate polio is a global one. Since 1988, wild poliovirus cases have decreased by more than 99%, but the disease is still considered endemic in two countries, Pakistan and ...
A lawyer advising Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants the FDA to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. Before vaccines were available in 1955, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year ...
Its goal was to eradicate polio by the year 2000. The updated strategic plan for 2004–2008 expects to achieve global eradication by interrupting poliovirus transmission, using the strategies of routine immunization , supplementary immunization campaigns, and surveillance of possible outbreaks.
Cases of polio have declined by 99% since the 1990s thanks chiefly to mass vaccination campaigns worldwide. The wild form of polio is now only endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the vaccine ...