Providing monovalent oral polio vaccine type 1 to newborns: findings from a pilot birth-dose project in Moradabad district, India

• Main Authors: JJ Rainey (Author), P Bhatnagar (Author), CF Estivariz (Author), S Durrani (Author), M Galway (Author), H Sandhu (Author), S Bahl (Author), H Jafari (Author), J Wenger (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization.
• Subjects: article
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PROBLEM: Poliovirus transmission remained a public health challenge in western Uttar Pradesh, India in late 2005 and early 2006. In 2006, the India Expert Advisory Group for Polio Eradication concluded that, given the peak incidence of polio among children 6 to 12 months of age, a targeted birth dos...