Failure of Polio Eradication in Pakistan.

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ASIF SHAH

Abstract

Pakistan is one of the three countries where poliomyelitis is still considered as an endemic viral infection', In
every round of National Immunization day (NIDs) over
30 million children are immunized for polio by Expanded
Program on Immunization with the support of multiple
multinational donors and private sector. ii In every campaign over 6000 permanent centers and more than one
million outreach and mobile vaccination sessions provides immunization services with the support of more
than 10,000 vaccinators and approximately 6000 lady
health visitors (LHVs)iii. Despite the utilization of huge
amount of resources Pakistan fail to eradicate the polio
resulted international communities imposed a travel ban
on Pakistan in 2013.iv Literature review suggested multiple reason for failure in eradication of polio, some are
discussed below.

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ASIF SHAH. (2014). Failure of Polio Eradication in Pakistan. JMMC, 5(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.62118/jmmc.v5i1.419
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