Africa: New Funding to Ensure 370 Million Children Receive Polio Vaccinations and to Boost Health Innovation in Low-Income Countries
[WHO] 11 October 2023: Brussels, Belgium: Today, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new financing partnership to address critical global health opportunities: eradicating polio and ensuring that innovations in health are more accessible to the people who need them most. The World Health Organization and UNICEF, as implementing partners for the polio funding, will deploy the resources to eradicate polio, support the distribution of other (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 11, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa External Relations Governance Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news
Member States urged to go all in to end polio during meeting of the Regional Subcommittee for ...
10 October 2023 ‒ The urgency of ending polio was impressed upon Member States at the ninth meeting of the Regional Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks in the Eastern Mediterranean, held during the 70th session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean Endemic wild poliovirus is present only in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, in just 2 countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Polio has no cure, and the strategy for its eradication is based on immunizing every child, through multiple high-quality vaccination campaigns.
At the meeting, Member States and Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPE...
Source: WHO EMRO News - October 10, 2023 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Fourth Round of Polio Vaccination Launched
[The Herald] Rumbidzayi Zinyuke in Victoria Falls (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 10, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Kenya: MOH to Mount Second Oral Polio Vaccine Campaign From Saturday
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Ministry of Health is set to run its second Oral Polio Vaccine campaign for 2023 from Saturday in joint efforts with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 5, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Polio Source Type: news
Pakistan launches anti-polio vaccine drive targeting 44M children amid tight security
Pakistan has launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year Monday in an effort to inoculate 44 million children under the age of 5 (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - October 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
How Many Countries Still Have Endemic Wild Polio?
Discussion
Poliomyelitis is caused by an enterovirus virus which causes acute flaccid paralysis. It is transmitted through fecal-oral spread. “All three serotypes of WPV [wild polio virus] are highly contagious, although 95% of primary infections cause a transient viraemia [sic] without symptoms. Paralysis occurs in one in 150 infections due to invasion of the central nervous system (CNS) and damage to the anterior horn of the spinal nerve roots.” In the prevaccination era, infants and young children were most at risk. The inactivated (IPV, inactivated or Salk) vaccine and the oral (OPV, live-attenuated or Sabi...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - October 2, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Pakistan officials consider a new way to boost polio vaccination: prison
Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - October 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Mozambique: Polio Vaccination Extended in Tete and ZambÉzia
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Ministry of Health has extended the vaccination campaign against polio in the central provinces of Zambézia and Tete, since it found that a large number of children were still not vaccinated. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - September 21, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Mozambique Polio Southern Africa Source Type: news
Global polio eradication effort struggles with the end game
In 1988, a collection of health and nonprofit organizations launched a vaccination program to eradicate polio, and the World Health Organization resolved to accomplish this lofty goal by 2000. More than 20 years later, the
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
(GPEI) has yet to cross the finish line. A new,
sharply critical report
issued on 8 September by an independent monitoring board says GPEI is likely to miss yet more deadlines, and faults it for long embracing “a highly positive public ‘almost there’ narrative that was close to magical thinking.”
Through ma...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 18, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Malawi: Malawi Extends Polio Vaccination to 15-Year-Olds
[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Malawi is extending the maximum age of children eligible for the polio vaccination from 5 to 15. Since the discovery last year of its first polio case 30 years after the country eradicated the disease, the number of cases has increased to five this year -- the latest victim being 14 years old. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - September 15, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Polio Southern Africa Source Type: news
Mozambique: Ninth Round of Polio Vaccination Under Way in Maputo
[AIM] Maputo -- The health authorities in Maputo city have announced that they will carry out the ninth round of the polio vaccination campaign between 13 and 17 September. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 8, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Mozambique Polio Southern Africa Source Type: news
Angola: Increase in Vaccination Coverage Prevents Polio Circulation - Official
[ANGOP] Cacuaco -- Angola will increase polio vaccination to counter the circulation of the virus through the launch of two preventative campaigns, the Secretary of State for Public Health Carlos Alberto de Sousa said on Thursday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 8, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Angola Central Africa Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Source Type: news
The Anti-Vax Movement Isn ’t Going Away. We Must Adapt to It
America’s immunization policies are facing a bleak future. Political polarization about vaccine policies is likely to cause outbreaks of previously controlled infectious diseases. If we cannot prevent these disasters, we should pivot our focus towards managing them.
Resistance to vaccination is not a new problem, but the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated it. It should be clear by now that neither persuasion nor coercion is sufficient to change the minds or the behavior of people who are determined to refuse vaccines. Education and research cannot defeat coordinated misinformation. And government efforts—at feder...
Source: TIME: Health - September 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mark Christopher Navin and Katie Attwell Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Africa: Statement of the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the Polio Ihr Emergency Committee
[WHO] The thirty-sixth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 16 August 2023 with committee members and advisers attending via video conference, supported by the WHO Secretariat. The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses (cVDPV) in the context of global target of eradication of WPV and cessation of (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - September 1, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Polio Source Type: news
