Youth Group Engagement in Noncompliant Communities During Supplemental Immunization Activities in Kaduna, Nigeria, in 2014

Autor: Fadinding Manneh, Richard Banda, Emmanuel Gali, Charity Warigon, Ana Chevez, Audu Musa, Pascal Mkanda, Charles Korir, Rui G. Vaz, Peter Nsubuga, Gregory Umeh
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
ISSN: 1537-6613
0022-1899
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv510
Popis: Tremendous progress to a poliomyelitis free world has been made since the World Health Assembly in 1988 inaugurated the Global Polio Eradication Initiative [1], with >99% reduction in confirmed cases of wild poliovirus (WPV) [2]. Since this drive to eradicate poliomyelitis, 3 countries—Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan—remain endemic reservoirs of WPV [3]. Poliomyelitis is one of the leading causes of acute flaccid paralysis among individuals aged
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