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- Title
The push to eradicate poliomyelitis in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.
- Authors
Maher, Christopher
- Abstract
The author discusses an initiative to eliminate poliomyelitis in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Topics covered include strategic communications to develop and maintain community demand for polio vaccination, an outbreak of Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 in the north-eastern area of the Syrian Arab Republic, and the number of polio outbreak simulation exercises facilitated by the Regional Polio team in 2016 and 2017 in 17 countries.
- Subjects
MIDDLE East; POLIO prevention; POLICY sciences; HEALTH promotion; PREVENTIVE health services; PUBLIC health surveillance; WORLD health; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 9, p587
- ISSN
1020-3397
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.26719/2017.23.8.587