Abstract In May 2012, the World Health Assembly declared the completion of poliovirus
eradication a programmatic emergency for global public health and called for a …

Abstract The Immunization Systems Management Group (IMG) was established as a time-
limited entity, responsible for the management and coordination of Objective 2 of the Polio …

Abstract The Immunization Systems Management Group (IMG) was established to
coordinate and oversee objective 2 of the Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan …

More than 6 decades after licensure of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) as the first polio
vaccine, optimal use of IPV for polio prevention continues to be an area of interest. With the …

Since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988, the number of
polio endemic countries has declined from 125 to 3 in 2013. Despite this remarkable …

The development of fractional-dose inactivated poliovirus vaccine (fIPV) has been crucial to
the global polio eradication initiative (GPEI) in the past decade, providing a dose-stretching …

With continued wild poliovirus transmission in Afghanistan and Pakistan and circulating
vaccine-derived poliovirus in certain countries, there exists an ongoing risk of importation of …

With the globally coordinated switch from the trivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV) to the
bivalent OPV in April, 2016, the international public health community entered a new chapter …

Polio eradication requires the removal of all polioviruses from human populations, whether
wild poliovirus or those emanating from the oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV). The Polio …

In 2013, the World Health Assembly endorsed a plan that calls for the ultimate withdrawal of
oral polio vaccines (OPV) from all immunization programs globally. The withdrawal would …