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Globalization and Health201612:63; DOI: 10.1186/s12992-016-0195-3
Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (Twelfth Report: October 2015)
Humanitarian emergencies result in a breakdown of critical health-care services and often make vulnerable communities dependent on external agencies for care. In resource-constrained settings, this may occur against a backdrop of extreme poverty, malnutrition, insecurity, low literacy and poor infra... more
THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC, IRAQ, JORDAN, LEBANON, TURKEY, WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP, EGYPT

Eradicating Polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan

April Chang, Edgar Chavez, Sadika Hameed et al. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (2012) CC
Through 2004, reports showed that polio incidence in Afghanistan was in decline. When the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) reported only 30 new cases in 2010, the program was widely hailed as effective and on the road to complete success. However, GPEI and the Afghan Ministry of Health rep... more
With a focus on Pakistan and Nigeria’s most vulnerable communities, this report provides insight about the role that community push-back is playing in the transmission of the polio virus and how the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) can mitigate these social risks to reach every missed ch... more
This is a part of a series of lesson plans created by Peace Corps volunteers in Senegal about vaccine preventable diseases