Challenges Preventing Eradication of Polio
22nd September 2023
The global effort to end polio is likely to miss two key targets this year on the path towards defeating the virus, according to an independent strategic review.
The aim in 2023 was to interrupt the transmission of wild polio in the two countries where it is still endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and do the same for a variant form of polio known as “vaccine-derived” that is causing outbreaks elsewhere.
The Independent Monitoring Board, a group of polio experts who oversee the work of the U.N.-backed Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), said neither target would be hit this year.
Eradicating diseases is apparently not a Muslim value.