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Practical hints are provided for mOPV1 storage and handling at regional stores
These guidelines provide health workers with information needed to educate families of children with polio to help them to understand the disease, prevent deformities and assist the children's growth and development in the best way possible
The WHO Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)’s new Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan targets the end of all kinds of polioviruses by 2018, including the wild and rare vaccine-related strains which cause paralysis among thousands of children worldwide. The plan is focused on develo... more
Humanitarian emergencies result in a breakdown of critical health-care services and often make vulnerable communities dependent on external agencies for care. In resource-constrained settings, this may occur against a backdrop of extreme poverty, malnutrition, insecurity, low literacy and poor infra... more

Eradicating Polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan

April Chang, Edgar Chavez, Sadika Hameed et al. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (2012) CC
Through 2004, reports showed that polio incidence in Afghanistan was in decline. When the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) reported only 30 new cases in 2010, the program was widely hailed as effective and on the road to complete success. However, GPEI and the Afghan Ministry of Health rep... more
This is a part of a series of lesson plans created by Peace Corps volunteers in Senegal about vaccine preventable diseases
Bulletin of the World Health Organization Volume 91, Number 4, April 2013, 237-312
With a focus on Pakistan and Nigeria’s most vulnerable communities, this report provides insight about the role that community push-back is playing in the transmission of the polio virus and how the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) can mitigate these social risks to reach every missed ch... more