Global Polio Eradication Initiative 2021annual report

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• Alternative Title:
  GPEI
• Corporate Authors:
  World Health Organization. Global Polio Eradication Initiative. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Rotary International. ; UNICEF ; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ; World Health Organization. Dept. of Vaccines and Other Biologicals.
• Description:
  The year 2021 may go down in history as the turning point in the global effort to eradicate polio.
  
  With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, continued wild polio transmission in the remaining endemic countries and spreading outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), the year began with many challenges facing polio eradication efforts. WHO Member States and partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) had to show rapid adaptability in their efforts to protect children from lifelong paralysis. In June, the GPEI launched the new Polio Eradication Strategy 2022–2026, which lays out the roadmap to achieving a world forever free of all forms of poliovirus through stronger community engagement, a renewed focus on gender equity and the roll-out of new tools and approaches.
  
  These new tools included the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), which began deployment under the Emergency Use Listing procedure as part of the GPEI’s broader polio vaccine repository to curb cVDPV2 transmission. Notable among the new approaches were more deliberate partnering with essential immunization services, pandemic and outbreak response and preparedness, and – where impactful – coordination with broader health and sanitation sectors. In August, the WHO African Region celebrated one year since it was certified free of wild poliovirus (WPV), and countries recommitted to strong cVDPV2 outbreak response across the continent with the support of the GPEI.
  
  ISBN 978-92-4-005893-4 (electronic version)
  
  ISBN 978-92-4-005894-1 (print version)
  
  Suggested citation. Global Polio Eradication Initiative: annual report 2021. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021.
  
  GPEI-2021-annual-report-ISBN-9789240058934.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Eradication Global Health Immunization Programs Poliomyelitis/prevention & Control Poliomyelitis Vaccine Program Evaluation
• Document Type:
  Report
• Name as Subject:
  World Health Organization. Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
• Genre:
  Annual Reports
• Pages in Document:
  vii, 27 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1ee2f0ff709497661de6ec48f08e8eafb634b50c934a8b55973989d07b589813
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/134369/cdc_134369_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.60 MB ]