ABSTRACT

Since the 1988 World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution to eradicate polio, considerable progress has been made in ending the transmission of wild poliovirus throughout the world. The number of polio endemic countries in the world fell from over 125 in 1988 to just two countries in the Easter Mediterranean Region EMRO after the Polio-free declaration of the remaining five WHO regions. Cases of paralytic polio have declined enormously, from some 350000 cases in 1988 to only 2 cases in 2021. Wild poliovirus type 2 (WPV2) was last detected in 1999, WPV type 3 (WPV3) in 2012, and WPV type 1 is still endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had an immense impact on health systems around the world, which must face the challenge of simultaneously meeting the needs of COVID-19 patients and managing other programs including the polio eradication program. This review presents the epidemiology of the poliovirus, progress for the polio eradication and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the objectives of the GPEI. Keywords: Global Eradication Poliomyelitis Initiative; Acute Flaccid Paralysis; Poliovirus; COVID-19
Publication date: 01/07/2023

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2023/12.7.7319