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POST 00865E : POLIO ERADICATION AND INDIA Follow-up on Post 00863E 11 December 2005 _____________________________________ 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. _____________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Visit the TECHNET21 Website at http://www.technet21.org You will find instructions to subscribe, a direct access to archives, links to reference documents and other features. ______________________________________________________________________________ To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message to : mailto:[email protected] Leave the subject area BLANK In the message body, write unsubscribe TECHNET21E ______________________________________________________________________________ The World Health Organization and UNICEF support TechNet21. The TechNet21 e-Forum is a communication/information tool for generation of ideas on how to improve immunization services. It is moderated by Claude Letarte and is hosted in cooperation with the Centre de coopération internationale en santé et développement, Québec, Canada (http://www.ccisd.org) ______________________________________________________________________________
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