POST 00865E : POLIO ERADICATION AND INDIA
Follow-up on Post 00863E
11 December 2005
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Robert Davis (mailto:[email protected]) fromUNICEF/ESARO has submitted the
following comment. Even though Post 00863E did not specifically call for
comments, any posting or document can be commented to open a debate. Thus
anyone of you wishing to comment should not hesitate to do so.
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Claude,
These authors' extremely detailed critique of the agencies' performance in
India does not explain why there is continuing WPV in northern India, and
none in southern India. Also, why did resource poor Bangladesh succeed in
eliminating WPV transmission years ago, following the same agency guidance
in which the authors find so much to criticize?
If exogenous factors were mainly responsible for India's failure thus far
to stop transmission, then we'd be talking about continuing transmission in
Tamil Nadu and Kerala, which we aren't. Those states both took the agency
advice and followed it.
I think it's time to place responsibility on the right parties -- by the
way, the same ones who retarded the elimination of smallpox from India in
the 1970s.
Bob
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