The polio eradication campaign put to test
Claire Magone
On February 4, 2014, the Crash team was delighted to welcome Dr Rashid Jooma, from Aga Khan university, Karachi, Dr Elisha Renne, professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan ; Johannes Everts, WHO technical expert and Dr Hamid Jafari, Director of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative WHO. This round table was moderated by Claire Magone.
The polio eradication campaign has indeniably and remarkably succeeded in tumbling down the number of polio cases worldwide.
But difficulties currently faced by the Programme -pockets of social resistance in several countries, reinfection of some countries, outbreak of epidemics associated with strains of vaccine-derived polio viruses- indeed challenge one of the main assumptions underlying the objective of the eradication itself : the full compliance of an entire population to a public health program.
In order to overcome some of the above-mentionned difficulties, there is a growing tendency, as observed in Pakistan or in Nigeria for instance, to adopt coercive measures either to protect vaccination teams or to enforce the vaccination itself. Some of those measures question the strategy of eradication at all costs.
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Claire Magone, “The polio eradication campaign put to test”, 4 février 2014, URL : https://msf-crash.org/en/conferences-debates/polio-eradication-campaign-put-test
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