Polio Eradication: A Brief Review of 2023
From Dr. Bruno: Every week, I post the status of global polio eradication in the Post Polio Coffee House . This outstanding article from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, summarizes of the work that was done in 2023 and their goals for 2024.
GPEI a Brief Review of 2023 and Full Focus on 2024
As the year draws to a close, efforts intensify against the virus in 2024
“The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has two goals laid out in its current strategy: to interrupt all remaining transmission of endemic wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) and to stop all outbreaks of variant poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). 2023 was a critical year for progressing on each of these, and while our urgent and diligent work to end polio must continue into 2024, the GPEI achieved incredible things in the past twelve months.”
Continuing Work In Endemic Countries
“Despite significant geo-political and environmental challenges in the two remaining WPV1 endemic countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the polio programme has continued to reach greater numbers of children with polio vaccines.”
Progress On Variant Polio Outbreaks
“Thanks to the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), strong political commitment and community based efforts to reach more children with the vaccine, the number of cases of variant poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) continued to decline in nearly 1 billion doses of nOPV2, a comparably safe, effective, but more genetically stable version of the existing type 2 oral polio vaccine (mOPV2), have now been administered across 35 countries, protecting millions of children from illness and paralysis.”
The Complete Article from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.