Special Focus – Polio in India
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A community health worker administers a vaccination in Odisha.
This special focus section about polio in India is produced in partnership with Sanofi Pasteur
Case Study
The RI campaign was part of the polio endgame in India – ensuring that vaccination against the poliovirus reached everyone, everywhere. Making India polio-free depended on this, as just one case can lead to a resurgence of the disease in communities where immunisation levels are low.
IPV vs OPV
The polio vaccine being administered in India, which has been declared polio-free since 2014. However, infrastructural problems within India’s public health system and inequality between its states have resulted in many disease eradication targets since being missed.
