Category: surveillance

CDC Continues the Fight Against Polio

In 1988, when CDC joined three other partners to launch the ambitious Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), the world was a much different and, measured by polio’s reach, dangerous place. Back then, polio existed in more than 125 countries and it paralyzed 350,000 children that year. Thanks to GPEI and the tireless work of its Read More >

December 2, 2016 by Rebecca Martin, PhD, Director, Center for Global Health

Archive, polio

Afghanistan, emergency operations, Global Polio Eradication Initiative, India, innovation, Nigeria, NSTOP, Pakistan, poliovirus transmission, surveillance