POST 01083E : POLIO ERADICATION 24 April 2007
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Sending two articles through Child Survival
Update recently, Robert Davis (mailto:[email protected]) wrote :
"The costs of eradicating poliomyelitis from the
remaining infected countries, while high in the
short term, are much lower than the long term
costs of trying to control infections without
eradication. And a recently developed monovalent
vaccine is almost three times more effective
against type 1 poliomyelitis than an existing
trivalent vaccine. These are the findings of two
articles published online and in an upcoming issue of The Lancet.
In the first, "Eradication versus control for
poliomyelitis: an economic analysis", Professor
Kimberly Thompson and Dr Radboud Duintjer Tebbens
of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston,
USA used a dynamic modelling technique based on
current wild poliovirus endemic areas of India.
The results show the importance of maintaining
and increasing the immunisation intensity to
complete eradication. They find that even small
decreases in this intensity could lead to large
outbreaks — and state that more short term funds
are needed than are currently being spent.The
authors conclude: "Worldwide eradication of
polioviruses is likely to yield substantial
health and financial benefits, provided we finish the job."?
You can view this article at :
http://www.technet21.org/pdf_file/PolEradicEconAnalysis.pdf
"In the second paper, Dr Nicholas Grassly of the
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology,
Imperial College, London, UK and Dr Bruce
Aylward, of the World Health Organisation,
Switzerland and colleagues did a study of the
efficacy of the monovalent oral type 1 poliovirus vaccine (mOPV1)".
This other article is available from :
http://www.technet21.org/pdf_file/OPV1Efficacy.pdf
The situation in Nigeria concerning polio
eradication has been presented and discussed in
TechNet a number of times. We thus add a third
article "What Led to the Nigerian Boycott of the
Polio Vaccination Campaign?" by Ayodele Samuel
Jegede, published this last 20 March on the
Public Library of Science website. The author is
senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology at
the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. His article
is an interesting analysis written while a
Fogarty Shcolar at the University of Toronto.
You can download the article from :
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlse ... ed.0040073
For all the latest data on polio in the world,
visit : http://www.PolioEradication.org
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