Surveillance To Track Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication - Worldwide, 2021-2022

This report updates previous reports (7,9) to describe surveillance performance during 2021-2022 in 34 priority countries.* In 2022, a total of 26 (76.5%) priority countries met the two key AFP surveillance performance indicator targets nationally compared with 24 (70.6%) countries in 2021; however, substantial gaps remain in subnational areas. Environmental surveillance expanded to 725 sites in priority countries, a 31.1% increase from the 553 sites reported in 2021. High-quality surveillance is critical to rapidly detect poliovirus transmission and enable prompt poliovirus outbreak response to stop circulation. Frequent monitoring of surveillance guides improvements to achieve progress toward polio eradication.PMID:37289657 | DOI:10.15585/mmwr.mm7223a1

Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - June 8, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Tasha Stehling-Ariza Amanda L Wilkinson Ousmane M Diop Jaume Jorba Humayun Asghar Tigran Avagnan Varja Grabovac Ticha Johnson Sudhir Joshi Anfumbom K W Kfutwah Lucky Sangal Salmaan Sharif Ashraf Wahdan Graham F Tallis Stephanie D Kovacs Source Type: research