PROBLEMS OF FINAL PHASE POLIOMYELITIS ERADICATION PROGRAMME

Abstract

Never before has the world community were not so close to the goal - poliomyelitis eradication. In 2016, the world recorded only 37 cases in the three endemic countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Despite the great progress in the final stages of poliomyelitis eradication have problems: the emergence and circulation of vaccine-derived poliovirus and related diseases, vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis, social and political factors affecting of vaccination.

Keywords

• poliomyelitis
• vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (vapp)
• vaccine-derived poliovirus (vdpv)
• inactivated poliovirus vaccine (1pv)
• oral poliovirus vaccine (opv)