Prioritizing polio

Rath, Barbara; Ali, Mohammad; Elemuwa, Chris; Mäurer, W; Bouder, Frédéric; Mworozi, Edison; Diedrich, Sabine; Khamesipour, Ali; Chitwood, Iga; Kochhar, Sonali

doi:10.1586/erv.12.128

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“…One must attempt to reach more than 90% of young children through mass OPV immunization campaigns in countries with reestablished transmission; this task is similar in scale to those tasks in the remaining endemic countries where conflict, insecurity and weak public services complicate eradication operations [[14],[18]]. These issues need to be successfully addressed to achieve a polio free world.…”

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Achieving a polio free world

Ali

Sack

2014

BMC Med

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Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the spread of polio is an international public health emergency, and a coordinated international response is sought. Although the importance of such a response is recognized, there are challenges to stopping the spread of polio and achieving a polio free world. The most important issue is directing limited national resources to the specific areas where polio is endemic. In an article published in BMC Medicine, Upfill-Brown and his colleagues recognized this problem and successfully identified the potential risk areas in Nigeria using a validated spatial predictive model of wild poliovirus circulation. They also showed that a lower vaccine-derived population immunity is associated with the probability of a higher number of wild poliovirus cases within a district. Identification of the potential risk areas and understanding the magnitude of risk may help direct limited resources of the endemic countries to areas most at risk to maximize the impact of interventions and motivate the people to participate in the intervention program. These efforts are crucial if these endemic countries hope to eradicate polio.Please see related research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/12/92.

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Achieving a polio free world

Ali

Sack

2014

BMC Med

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“…Where EOC already exists for other diseases such as poliomyelitis [7], this infrastructure should be strengthened and utilized to mount effective responses. Nigeria's recent experience provides important clues for a public health model to be emulated and documented for future referencing.…”

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Global lessons from Nigeria’s ebolavirus control strategy

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Kutalek

Ali

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Expert Review of Vaccines

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“…For example, the inactivated poliomyelitis component (IPV) is currently a combination of three inactivated wild-type poliomyelitis viruses (type 1 Mahoney strain, type 2 MEF-1 strain, type 3 Saukett strain) [26]. In the final phase of polio eradication, it may become feasible for the wild-type strain to be substituted by an inactivated Sabin strain vaccine, resulting in different levels of immunogenicity [27]. In this case, it would be important to know which polio strains were administered.…”

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Standardization and simplification of vaccination records

Mäurer

Seeber

Rundblad

et al. 2014

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The majority of vaccines are administered during childhood. Vaccination records are important documents to be kept for a lifetime, but the documentation of immunization events is poorly standardized. At the point of care, paper records are often unavailable, making it impossible to obtain accurate vaccination histories. Vaccination records should include batch specifications to allow the tracking of licensed vaccines in cases of recall. The WHO have generated the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis for the documentation of childhood and travel vaccinations as well as seasonal and booster immunizations. When moving vaccination records into the digital age, data standards and interoperability need to be considered. The ideal vaccination record should facilitate the interpretation of safety reports and promote a data continuum from pre-licensure trials to post-marketing surveillance. The current article describes which data elements are essential, and how vaccination documentation could be streamlined and simplified.

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Prioritizing polio

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Achieving a polio free world

Achieving a polio free world

Global lessons from Nigeria’s ebolavirus control strategy

Standardization and simplification of vaccination records

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