• The initiative comprises an international campaign to generate a process of sustained action through the introduction of the necessary support and mechanisms required for the eradication of the tsetse fly and trypanosomiasis from the affected countries. (unitingtocombatntds.org)
  • Johannes Everts, WHO technical expert and Dr Hamid Jafari, Director of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative WHO. (msf-crash.org)
  • In April 2016, India withdrew Sabin poliovirus type 2 vaccine as part of a globally synchronized initiative that followed the declaration of eradication of wild poliovirus type 2 in September 2015. (cdc.gov)
  • Strong government leadership at the national and state levels and well-coordinated technical and operational support from Global Polio Eradication Initiative partners, as well as experience in implementing oral poliovirus campaigns and having clearly defined standard operating procedures for outbreak response were critical elements to the success of the fIPV campaign in Telangana, India. (cdc.gov)
  • If you listen to mainstream media news, you'll be told that polio has now been eradicated in India - an accomplishment the Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are attributing to the intense polio vaccination campaign. (vaccineimpact.com)
  • Since the inception of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988, more than 2.5 billion children have been immunized against polio, leading to its elimination from much of the world. (asm.org)
  • The poll comes as People United for Medical Marijuana is in the midst of a signature-gathering campaign to put an initiative on the 2014 ballot. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • At the centre of these efforts is the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), which, with a budget of more than $1 billion a year and a presence in 16 countries, has spearheaded the fight against the disease with the polio vaccine. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Ufone 4G, a Pakistani Telecommunication company has embarked on a shared initiative with the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) in Pakistan to raise awareness amongst the citizens regarding the importance of polio eradication through vaccination. (com.pk)
  • The global poliomyelitis eradication initiative (PEI) has reduced the number of reported poliomyelitis cases worldwide by more than 80% since the mid-1980s, and worldwide eradication of the disease by the year 2000 appears feasible (8). (cdc.gov)
  • Dr Gezairy pointed out that the polio eradication initiative had reached a critical stage in the Region. (who.int)
  • The GPEI's goal is 'to phase-out using OPV and proceed to using just IPV, which has fewer potential risks,' said Amy Weiner, a senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports polio eradication efforts. (asm.org)
  • IPV has also been used since 2014 in mass campaigns to help interrupt wild poliovirus transmission and stop serotype 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV2) outbreaks. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1985, the countries of the Americas established a goal of regional elimination of wild poliovirus by the year 1990 (4), and in 1988, the World Health Assembly adopted the goal of global poliomyelitis eradication by the year 2000 (5). (cdc.gov)
  • At the end of 2002, a total of eleven (11) countries were confirmed to be still endemic as against nineteen (19) countries that were endemic at the start of the implementation of the dracunculiasis eradication programme. (who.int)
  • Status of dracunculiasis eradication in the African Region, 2002. (who.int)
  • At the start of the dracunculiasis eradication programme in 1986, the number of cases in Africa was estimated at between three and five million. (who.int)
  • When in 1986 the Carter Center took the reins of the global dracunculiasis eradication campaign, India was the only country with a national program to get rid of the disease. (medscape.com)
  • The Seventeenth Meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (RCC) was held on 24-26 April 2007 in Cairo, Egypt. (who.int)
  • The African Union Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign (AU-PATTEC) Office has the mandate of initiating, supporting and coordinating Tsetse and Trypanosomiais (T&T) eradication in Africa within the shortest time possible. (unitingtocombatntds.org)
  • Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Eradication Campaign PATTEC Enhancing Africa's Health and Prosperity. (au-ibar.org)
  • The initiation of the Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Eradication Campaign, like the Pan African Rinderpest Eradication Campaign before it, demonstrates the viability of translating the spirit of political unity into the reality of collective action to solve a common problem. (au-ibar.org)
  • In conclusion, although the economics of polio eradication may have been thought to be favorable by some (Aylward and others 2003), they are far less favorable than were the economics of smallpox eradication, even assuming that polio vaccination could cease. (givewell.org)
  • Djibouti, 27 February 2022 - Djibouti's Ministry of Health, with technical support from WHO and UNICEF, today kicked off a five-day national polio vaccination campaign aiming to reach all children in Djibouti aged zero to 59 months, approximately 150,000 children. (who.int)
  • In response to a VDPV2 isolation in Telangana, India, a mass vaccination campaign was conducted using fIPV within 14 days of the VDPV2 isolation. (cdc.gov)
  • This was the first mass vaccination campaign to use fIPV, and in a postcoverage monitoring survey, 94% of assessed children were found to have received fIPV during the campaign. (cdc.gov)
  • In response to identification of a VDPV2 isolate from a sewage sample collected in the southern state of Telangana in May 2016, India conducted a mass vaccination campaign in June 2016 using an intradermal fractional dose (0.1 ml) of IPV (fIPV). (cdc.gov)
  • While the original story quoting the sick children's parents was pulled from the Internet, a "cache" of the story was still available and follow-up stories reported that some Pakistani health officials had been suspended for providing the expired drops, which were distributed during a spring 2012 vaccination campaign. (vaccineimpact.com)
  • The country's polio campaign made headlines last year when a Pakistani doctor was linked to a CIA operation to verify Osama bin Laden's whereabouts with a door-to-door vaccination campaign in the town of Abbottabad, where the al Qaeda leader was hiding before he was killed. (cnn.com)
  • U.S. officials have said the plan did not work, but aid groups and Pakistani health officials have said the CIA's alleged meddling with a vaccination campaign undermined Pakistan's efforts to eradicate polio. (cnn.com)
  • The revelation that a mock vaccination campaign was mounted during the search for Osama bin Laden also damaged the campaign. (com.pk)
  • The Pakistan Ministry has announced the commencement of a nationwide polio vaccination campaign beginning on October 2, aiming to immunize more children. (medindia.net)
  • In 1980, the WHO declared the global eradication of smallpox due to a worldwide vaccination campaign. (cdc.gov)
  • With this campaign, Djibouti becomes the second country in WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Region to use this vaccine, after Egypt carried out a national campaign in late 2021. (who.int)
  • Riverside County saw the most CAMP eradication activity in 2021, with 509,543 plants destroyed at 135 sites. (peaceloveandgas.com)
  • Unfortunately, 2021 was no different in the level of these harmful tactics growers used on our National Forests and BLM and state lands, highlighting the continued need for eradication programs like CAMP to detect cultivation sites and assist law enforcement in eradicating these destructive grows," Wengert said. (peaceloveandgas.com)
  • The resolution in 1988 to five towards the vaccination during supplementary immunization eradicate polio globally led to the development of campaign between 2019 and 2021. (who.int)
  • They started a campaign called Universal EYE Health (https://www.facebook.com/UniversalEYE-Health-Campaign-101743302101383), zero avoidable blindness awareness campaign on 18th May 2021. (iapb.org)
  • SACRAMENTO, October 8, 2020 - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the eradication of more than 1.1 million marijuana plants across 455 grow sites as part of the California Department of Justice's Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) program, the nation's largest illegal marijuana eradication program. (yubanet.com)
  • The WHO has concluded that this new eradication campaign can completely eliminate yaws worldwide by 2020. (medscape.com)
  • Funding from GPEI has also transformed monitoring of disease outbreaks through the Global Polio Eradication Laboratory Network. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • However, the GPEI was set up to achieve one goal only - the eradication of polio. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Some believed that global eradication might be possible, although others were concerned that the far less developed infrastructure of health, transportation, and communications services in many parts of Asia and Africa would make it an unachievable task. (givewell.org)
  • The OAU Summit held in Lome, Togo, in July 2000, charged the Secretary General of OAU with the task of initiating a campaign to eradicate this menace from the continent of Africa. (au-ibar.org)
  • They were prepared by the partners of the coalition: IPPF Africa Region, YWCA Kenya, Faith to Action Network and OAFLAD, and each one reflects on a specific piece of advocacy work carried out under the campaign. (kit.nl)
  • A systematic qualitative analysis in 7 countries in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa assessed impacts of polio eradication activities on key health system functions, using data from interviews, participant observation , and document review . (bvsalud.org)
  • Pakistan began using inactivated poliovirus vaccine alongside oral vaccine in mass campaigns to accelerate eradication of wild-type poliovirus in 2014. (cdc.gov)
  • Location and impact of mass campaigns in Pakistan during January 2014-October 2017 that have included inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) alongside oral vaccine. (cdc.gov)
  • We recently published estimates of the impact of OPV mass campaigns with and without the inclusion of IPV in Nigeria and Pakistan during January 2014-April 2016 ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • These estimates demonstrated a reduction in the incidence of poliomyelitis and detection of poliovirus in the environment after campaigns that used IPV in Nigeria but not in Pakistan, where statistical power was limited. (cdc.gov)
  • We have now updated these estimates in Pakistan for January 2014-October 2017, thereby including a longer period of surveillance and additional campaigns during a period when wild-type 1 poliovirus has been circulating ( Technical Appendix ). (cdc.gov)
  • A Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan has announced a ban on polio vaccines for children as long as the United States continues its campaign of drone strikes in the region, according to a statement by the Taliban. (cnn.com)
  • Militants in Pakistan often target polio teams and security officers assigned to protect them, claiming the vaccination campaigns are a Western plot to sterilize children. (rferl.org)
  • Through our joint campaigns, community outreach programs and widespread network, we aim to disseminate our message throughout Pakistan. (com.pk)
  • In Pakistan, the polio campaign focuses on more than 270,000 children under the age of five years, residing in areas with insufficient vaccine coverage. (medindia.net)
  • But difficulties currently faced by the Programme -pockets of social resistance in several countries, reinfection of some countries, outbreak of epidemics associated with strains of vaccine-derived polio viruses- indeed challenge one of the main assumptions underlying the objective of the eradication itself : the full compliance of an entire population to a public health program. (msf-crash.org)
  • Welcoming the commitment secured by IFA in the Programme for Government to address TB blackspot areas, IFA Animal Health Chairman Bert Stewart said the drive towards eradication must be expedited. (ifa.ie)
  • After a four-year eradication programme including nuclear techniques, the Niayes region of Senegal is now almost free of the tsetse fly, which used to decimate livestock. (iaea.org)
  • The operational phase of the campaign against the tsetse fly started in the Niayes region near the capital Dakar in 2011. (iaea.org)
  • Research revealed that previous eradication attempts were unsuccessful because the campaigns did not manage to reach the entire tsetse fly population in the area, leaving residual pockets from which the tsetse population could recover. (iaea.org)
  • California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Monday that law enforcement officials destroyed more than one million cannabis plants this year in the state's Campaign Against Marijuana Planting. (peaceloveandgas.com)
  • Over an unspecified, 13-week period, law enforcement officers and other officials with the state's Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) conducted operations in 26 counties, according to a statement from the California Department of Justice. (peaceloveandgas.com)
  • Three of the four countries in which polio remains endemic are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, and the campaign is working to make polio a priority issue at this year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, before building global advocacy efforts to secure additional funding commitments from donor countries. (polioeradication.org)
  • This enormous reduction in prevalence is a direct effect of campaigns by endemic countries assisted by organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Carter Center (a not-for-profit founded in 1982 by Jimmy Carter), which have strived since the 1980s to eradicate dracunculiasis, hoping to make it the second human disease purposefully wiped off the face of Earth. (medscape.com)
  • Between the years 1952 and 1964, the World Health (WHO) and UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) undertook a major worldwide campaign to eliminate the endemic treponematoses by treating 300 million people in 46 countries with benzathine benzylpenicillin. (medscape.com)
  • The massive campaign has included armies of eradicators, mountains of research and the dedication of numerous governments and NGOs. (latimes.com)
  • There's a bitter irony hidden at the heart of the eradication campaign: The primary tool eradicators have used to combat the virus - the oral polio vaccine created by Albert Sabin in the late 1950s - is itself causing outbreaks of the disease. (latimes.com)
  • The tools of eradication may be vulnerable to resistance (insecticides and drugs in the case of malaria). (givewell.org)
  • Attempts to wipe out diseases such as malaria come with a cost, this history of eradication campaigns shows. (sciencenews.org)
  • What are the prospects for the eradication of polio and malaria? (nextbillion.net)
  • Further effort is needed to accelerate the eradication process in order to free the countries from dracunculiasis. (who.int)
  • It is now the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's recommended vaccine for supplementary immunization activities. (who.int)
  • Supplementary immunization activities campaigns provide children with an additional dose of vaccine and deliver other interventions. (who.int)
  • Sir Gustav Nossal - winner of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science and former Chairman of the WHO's vaccines and biologicals program oversight committee - has added his support to the Global Poverty Project's The End of Polio campaign. (polioeradication.org)
  • Delivery of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's 2011-12 strategic plan is currently threatened by a $590 million funding gap, The End of Polio campaign is working to build public support for eradication efforts. (polioeradication.org)
  • A second round of campaigning is planned for late March, in adherence with global best practices to build robust immunity levels and save children's lives. (who.int)
  • Background Mass campaigns are a key strategy for delivering life-saving interventions under Global Health Initiatives, especially in weak health system contexts. (bmj.com)
  • Conclusions As we provide evidence that well-functioning health systems can benefit from mass campaigns under Global Health Initiatives, our work also challenges the established wisdom to intensify mass campaigns in weaker health systems to bypass service provision bottlenecks. (bmj.com)
  • Mass campaigns are a key strategy to deliver interventions under Global Health Initiatives, for example, supplementary immunisation activities (SIAs) and are often most heavily used in weaker health systems to bypass service provision bottlenecks. (bmj.com)
  • This is the fourth of six WHO regions to be certified, marking an important step towards global eradication of polio - a highly infectious virus that attacks the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. (un.org)
  • This unique coalition brought together youth-serving organizations, faith organizations, feminist groups and SRHR activists joined to shape the SoAW campaign at the global, regional, national and local level. (kit.nl)
  • Unfortunately, this global eradication campaign suffered from a lack of funds, personnel, and commitment from countries, and a shortage of vaccine donations. (cdc.gov)
  • Nearly all of the vaccine used in the global campaign is the oral live virus form associated with Albert Sabin. (si.edu)
  • ACIP has determined that the risk-benefit ratio associated with the exclusive use of OPV for routine immunization has changed because of rapid progress in global polio eradication efforts. (cdc.gov)
  • Implementation of these recommendations should reduce the risk for vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis and facilitate a transition to exclusive use of IPV following further progress in global polio eradication. (cdc.gov)
  • ACIP urges that continuing and adequate support be made available to the PEI to achieve the goal of global eradication by the year 2000. (cdc.gov)
  • This 1968 photograph depicts a long line of local children waiting to receive a smallpox inoculation, was taken in the city of Contonou, Benin, which was formerly the country of Dahomey, during the worldwide Global Smallpox Eradication Campaign of the late 1960's, and early 1970s. (cdc.gov)
  • The health system effects of mass campaigns are disputed: Commonly cited positive impacts include the strengthening of surveillance, management, and logistical systems and health service demand generation, but resource and workforce requirements of mass campaigns can also drain capacity to provide routine services, and frequent campaigns may lead to public resistance. (bmj.com)
  • Our qualitative analysis revealed context-specific positive impacts of polio eradication activities in many of our case studies , particularly disease surveillance and cold chain strengthening. (bvsalud.org)
  • Poliomyelitis became the next principal target when mass vaccination campaigns, proposed by Albert Sabin (1991), proved remarkably successfully in Cuba and Brazil. (givewell.org)
  • Other factors that played an important role in the success of the intensified efforts included the development of the bifurcated needle, the establishment of a case surveillance system, and mass vaccination campaigns. (cdc.gov)
  • Pakistan's polio campaign was badly affected by the war on terror and natural calamities: Shehnaz Wazir. (com.pk)
  • Pakistan's polio campaign was badly affected by the war on terror and natural calamities, said Prime Minister's Special Assistant and Focal Person on Polio Eradication Shehnaz Wazir Ali. (com.pk)
  • We call for an additional burden of proof and active efforts to integrate mass campaigns into routine health services by harmonising implementation plans and service delivery in weak health system contexts. (bmj.com)
  • In his response, Oba Ogunoye commended Governor Rotimi Akeredolu for his efforts in the health sector, especially in Lassa fever eradication noting that residents of Owo were aware of ways of tackling the fever. (citizendiaryng.com)
  • The Intensified Eradication Program began in 1967 with a promise of renewed efforts. (cdc.gov)
  • After 2 decades of focused efforts to eradicate polio , the impact of eradication activities on health systems continues to be controversial. (bvsalud.org)
  • Between 1952 and 1964, WHO led worldwide mass treatment campaigns to eradicate yaws. (hstalks.com)
  • A new yaws eradication program was proposed in 2012 by the WHO following a study that showed that oral azithromycin can successfully treat yaws in rural, tropical areas. (medscape.com)
  • Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018. (who.int)
  • Djibouti's campaign is being conducted with novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), a next-generation polio vaccine. (who.int)
  • Thanks to polio eradication, we now know where these children are who were difficult to reach with vaccine," said Dr. Khetrapal Singh. (un.org)
  • Using case-based and environmental surveillance data for January 2014-October 2017, we found that these campaigns reduced wild-type poliovirus detection more than campaigns that used only oral vaccine. (cdc.gov)
  • A police officer stand guard while a health-care worker administers a polio vaccine to a child as part of a national inoculation campaign. (rferl.org)
  • Political problems and civil strife may prevent an eradication program from being executed in critical areas where the disease makes its last stand (a problem today for guinea worm). (givewell.org)
  • Dracunculiasis - Guinea Worm Disease - Is Close to Eradication. (medscape.com)
  • People are fetching water to drink, and they walk into the water thinking they can get cleaner water not along the edge," said Adam Weiss, director of the Carter Center's Guinea Worm Eradication Program, in an interview with Medscape. (medscape.com)
  • This longitudinal study responds to this gap through an analysis of polio eradication campaigns in Nigeria. (bmj.com)
  • We estimated the relationships between individuals' campaign exposure and health system performance indices (full RI schedule attainment, maternal healthcare services utilisation and child survival) using multilevel, mixed-effects regression models applied nationally and stratified by the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. (bmj.com)
  • We did not update estimates for Nigeria because only 2 campaigns using IPV occurred during April 2016-October 2017, in areas with very limited VDPV2 detection. (cdc.gov)
  • Nigeria, long a pool of infection, has vigorous new leadership dedicated to the campaign, and this has led to a sharp reduction in polio there. (latimes.com)
  • The episode shocked the eradication community, but it was soon followed by another in Nigeria. (latimes.com)
  • These include essential surveillance activities, ability to respond to disease outbreaks, and any additional immunisation campaigns. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Lessons learned from this campaign can be applied to successful implementation of future outbreak responses using fIPV. (cdc.gov)
  • The ease of administration (all it takes is plopping a few drops of OPV into a child's mouth), affordability and ability to stop community spread of polio have made OPV indispensable to mass immunization and outbreak control campaigns. (asm.org)
  • During the workshop, the participants sought to answer certain fundamental questions, among which were the following: ➢ Is the eradication of tsetse technically feasible and economically justifiable? (au-ibar.org)
  • Over the course of a 13-week season - and despite unprecedented challenges from COVID-19 and wildfires - the multi-agency campaign conducted operations in 29 counties, arresting 140 individuals and seizing 174 weapons. (yubanet.com)
  • Watson, M 2012, ' Polio Eradication Campaign Encounters Challenges in its Final Stages ', Biosecurity and Bioterrorism , vol. 10, no. 3. (johnshopkins.edu)
  • There are four major challenges to polio eradication in the region. (com.pk)
  • The conference will also serve as a platform for Obama to push his nuclear eradication campaign. (courthousenews.com)
  • As an eradication program nears its goal, it may require significant additional funds in order to achieve the goal of eradication. (givewell.org)
  • Historically, only one eradication program (smallpox) has been successful. (givewell.org)
  • By the time the Intensified Eradication Program began in 1967, smallpox was already eliminated in North America (1952) and Europe (1953). (cdc.gov)
  • As a result of these unplanned reductions in IPV supply, countries have delayed the introduction of IPV to routine immunization or faced stockouts, and mass campaigns with IPV in response to VDPV2 are no longer recommended by WHO ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Given that IPV supply constraints are likely to continue until at least the end of 2018, it is crucial that available IPV be optimally allocated between routine immunization and mass campaigns. (cdc.gov)
  • The impact of polio eradication on routine immunization and primary health care: a mixed-methods study. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study evaluated the impact of polio eradication activities on routine immunization (RI) and primary healthcare (PHC). (bvsalud.org)
  • In contrast, regions with relatively strong health systems and few campaigns experienced beneficial effects on maternal healthcare service utilisation. (bmj.com)
  • Quantitative analysis assessed the effects of polio eradication campaigns on RI and maternal healthcare coverage. (bvsalud.org)
  • Our quantitative analysis did not find compelling evidence of widespread and significant effects of polio eradication campaigns, either positive or negative, on measures of RI and maternal healthcare . (bvsalud.org)
  • Colombo (AsiaNews) - The Sri Lankan Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena has launched a dengue eradication week from 1 to December 7. (asianews.it)
  • This is a house-to-house campaign, with vaccination also being offered in health facilities. (who.int)
  • Results Nationally, high-frequency mass campaigns had detrimental health systems effects that potentially left 3.6 million children deprived of full immunisation. (bmj.com)
  • The frequency of campaigns was most concentrated in regions with weak health systems, where the operations of RI were disrupted, alongside negative effects on child survival and institutional delivery. (bmj.com)
  • Mass campaigns do not inherently benefit or damage a health system, but frequent campaigns in weak health system contexts can impede service provision. (bmj.com)
  • In 1985, an American Health Organization coordinated campaign was launched to interrupt poliovirus transmission in the Americas by 1991, and this effort succeeded. (givewell.org)
  • Speaking at the flag-off of the rat eradication campaign in Owo Town, the headquarters of Owo Local Government, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Banji Ajaka, said the government was committed to eradicating the disease in the state. (citizendiaryng.com)
  • WHO noted that polio eradication programmes, through their networks and knowledge in reaching the 'unreached,' have strengthened the delivery of health services to the most vulnerable communities. (un.org)
  • The campaign seeks to influence change in both legal and social norms for women and girls' rights in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), at the continental, regional, national and sub-national levels, through a stronger voice and the meaningful participation of civil society in decision-making. (kit.nl)
  • She urged the religious scholars to cooperate with health teams so that the polio eradication campaign could be made effective across the country. (com.pk)
  • In the second incident, gunmen fired on police as they were accompanying health workers conducting the door-to-door inoculation campaign on the morning of December 12, killing one officer. (rferl.org)
  • This experience is what motivates me to promote eye health through blindness awareness campaigns and activities in my locality. (iapb.org)
  • This emergency response to a reported VDPV2 event demonstrates the feasibility of planning and implementing an fIPV campaign within 14 days of a reported event and of achieving high reported coverage. (cdc.gov)
  • The polio eradication campaign has indeniably and remarkably succeeded in tumbling down the number of polio cases worldwide. (msf-crash.org)
  • Our purpose is not to argue that such campaigns are bad investments in general, but simply to note that the sort of complexity they involve makes them a poor fit for our list of "low burden-of-proof" priority programs . (givewell.org)
  • What's more, some experts argue that chasing eradication may be altogether a misguided idea. (medscape.com)
  • What strategies and approaches need to be adopted, what methods should be employed and how should the tsetse eradication campaign be organised for effective execution? (au-ibar.org)
  • Last year was a good one for polio eradication. (latimes.com)
  • When the eradication campaign began there were over three million cases per year, but last year there were only 25 human cases. (cdc.gov)
  • Negative impacts, including service interruption and public dissatisfaction, were observed primarily in districts with many campaigns per year. (bvsalud.org)
  • Each case study documents and reflects on a specific piece of advocacy work carried out in the campaign. (kit.nl)
  • Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, for his intensive and sustained advocacy for polio eradication that was a source of inspiration for all those working for this goal. (who.int)