Global Polio Eradication Initiative : annual report 2017 securing a lasting world free of all polioviruses:

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• Corporate Authors:
  World Health Organization. Global Polio Eradication Initiative. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Rotary International. ; UNICEF.
• Description:
  Global progress and renewed commitment in 2017 brought us closer than ever to a world without polio.
  
  The year’s end offered a chance to reflect on the polio programme’s milestones and the fact that 2017 saw the fewest wild poliovirus (WPV) cases in history – a total of 22 – from the fewest areas of the fewest countries ever, with cases reported from just two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet the need to reach every last child remained more important than ever, as demonstrated by ongoing vaccination and surveillance gaps in north-eastern Nigeria; although no cases were identified in this region in 2017, undetected circulation of the virus could not be ruled out, and the outbreak response across the Lake Chad subregion continued.
  
  Suggested citation. Global Polio Eradication Initiative: annual report 2017. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2018 (WHO/Polio/18.01). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
  
  AnnualReport_EN.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Global Health Immunization Programs International Cooperation Poliomyelitis/epidemiology Poliomyelitis/prevention & Control Poliomyelitis/transmission Program Evaluation
• Document Type:
  Report
• Genre:
  Annual Reports
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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  urn:sha256:7089de84dfb4d817a865dc72378b9cf1ad876875a8cc25099e7a3711011e30b9
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