Polio Eradication: progress report
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Regional Committee for Africa Fifty-seventh session, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 27–31 August 2007: Provisional agenda item 8.1
1. Acceleration of polio eradication activities is one of the main objectives of the Regionalstrategic plan for the Expanded Programme on Immunization, 2006–2009 and its resolution(AFR/RC56/R1) adopted at the fifty-sixth session of the Regional Committee.2. Increased political commitment and improved quality of polio eradication activities have beenrealized in most countries following the adoption of Resolution AFR/RC54/R8 at the fifty-fourthsession of the Regional Committee which aimed at addressing the resurgence of wild poliovirustransmission.3. This information document provides an update on the status of polio eradication in the WHOAfrican Region and proposes the way forward in achieving the interruption of wild poliovirustransmission.
1. Acceleration of polio eradication activities is one of the main objectives of the Regionalstrategic plan for the Expanded Programme on Immunization, 2006–2009 and its resolution(AFR/RC56/R1) adopted at the fifty-sixth session of the Regional Committee.2. Increased political commitment and improved quality of polio eradication activities have beenrealized in most countries following the adoption of Resolution AFR/RC54/R8 at the fifty-fourthsession of the Regional Committee which aimed at addressing the resurgence of wild poliovirustransmission.3. This information document provides an update on the status of polio eradication in the WHOAfrican Region and proposes the way forward in achieving the interruption of wild poliovirustransmission.