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: Received: 15 May 2023 / Approved: 17 May 2023 / Online: 17 May 2023 (07:58:04 CEST)
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Syed, A.R.S.; Raza, S.S.M.; Chishti, M.A.S.; Ahmad, S.; Khan, H.D.; Abadeen, Z.U.; Khaliq, A. Mission of Polio Eradication in Pakistan-A Review on Challenges and Future Recommendations. Preprints2023, 2023051206. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1206.v1
Syed, A.R.S.; Raza, S.S.M.; Chishti, M.A.S.; Ahmad, S.; Khan, H.D.; Abadeen, Z.U.; Khaliq, A. Mission of Polio Eradication in Pakistan-A Review on Challenges and Future Recommendations. Preprints 2023, 2023051206. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1206.v1
Syed, A.R.S.; Raza, S.S.M.; Chishti, M.A.S.; Ahmad, S.; Khan, H.D.; Abadeen, Z.U.; Khaliq, A. Mission of Polio Eradication in Pakistan-A Review on Challenges and Future Recommendations. Preprints2023, 2023051206. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1206.v1
APA Style
Syed, A.R.S., Raza, S.S.M., Chishti, M.A.S., Ahmad, S., Khan, H.D., Abadeen, Z.U., & Khaliq, A. (2023). Mission of Polio Eradication in Pakistan-A Review on Challenges and Future Recommendations. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1206.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Syed, A.R.S., Zain ul Abadeen and Asif Khaliq. 2023 "Mission of Polio Eradication in Pakistan-A Review on Challenges and Future Recommendations" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1206.v1
Abstract
Poliomyelitis, commonly known as “polio” is a paralytic and perilous disease caused by the poliovirus. Due to its highly contagious nature, the virus was a challenge to the world in the late 1980s. . Since 1988 the collective work of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and World Health Organization (WHO) through immunizations, communication awareness, and monitoring have helped the world exonerate polio. The mission of polio-free Pakistan was herculean and had confronted enormous challenges in different ways but came out with positive results. In 2019, with only two remaining polio-endemic countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, GPEI launched an “Endgame strategy 2019-2023” which aims to eradicate polio globally, with a targeted focus, especially on polio-endemic countries, the plan emphasizes the early detection of polio cases for complete eradication and to restrict the spread of polio. Pakistan has achieved a milestone in combating polio despite having a web of factors that have thwarted Pakistan’s polio eradication efforts, but this is not the end, the struggle continues until we really get an internationally verified certification of Polio free nation, for this WHO has designed a multidisciplinary strategy 2022-2026 to really end this polio for once and for all.
Keywords
Pandemics; Immunization Programs; Poliovirus; Pakistan; World Health Organization
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services
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