Open AccessNew strategy to eliminate polio from India
Author(s) -
Collective Editorial team
Publication year - 2007
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.12.05.03128-en
Subject(s) - poliomyelitis eradication , poliomyelitis , endemic diseases , disease eradication , economic growth , political science , geography , socioeconomics , medicine , development economics , environmental protection , environmental health , disease , virology , poliovirus , economics , virus , pathology
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has achieved great successes since the World Health Assembly launched the project in 1988. However, the disease still remains endemic in four countries: India, Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.