Using short-message-service notification as a method to improve acute flaccid paralysis surveillance in Papua New Guinea

• Main Authors: Siddhartha Sankar Datta (Author), Berry Ropa (Author), Gerard Pai Sui (Author), Ramzi Khattar (Author), Ravi Shankar Santhana Gopala Krishnan (Author), Hiromasa Okayasu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background High quality acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance is required to maintain polio-free status of a country. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is considered as one of the highest risk countries for polio re-importation and circulation in the Western Pacific Region (WPRO) of the World Hea...