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Launched. 1988. Website. Official website. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is an initiative created in 1988, just after the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate the disease poliomyelitis. [1] Led by the World Health Organization, it is the largest international public health initiative in history. [2]
The Global Certification Commission is the top-level decision-making body of a three-tier process. Each WHO member state's national polio program appoints a National Certification Committee (NCC). These NCCs meet annually until national certification to report on the status of national polio surveillance and elimination.
India National PolioPlus Society is a non-profit organization. The Initiative has achieved significant progress toward its goals. There has been a dramatic decline in cases everywhere in the seventeen years since the target was set in 1988. Its volunteers throughout the world have helped organize national immunization days, staffed health ...
A child receives oral polio vaccine during a 2002 campaign to immunize children in India. Poliovirus. Polio eradication, the permanent global cessation of circulation of the poliovirus and hence elimination of the poliomyelitis (polio) it causes, is the aim of a multinational public health effort begun in 1988, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund ...
The National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) ( Urdu: قومی مقتدرہِ اندراجات و معطیات) is an independent and autonomous agency under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan that regulates Government Databases and statistically manages the sensitive registration database of all the National Citizens of ...
Polio in Pakistan. Pakistan is one of the two remaining countries [1] [2] in the world where poliomyelitis (polio) is still categorized as an endemic viral infection, [3] the other one being Afghanistan. [1] While it has yet to fully eradicate Polio, there has been a downwards trend in the number of reported cases per year; the total count of ...
Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences. / 17.4218056°N 78.4520111°E / 17.4218056; 78.4520111. Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences ( NIMS) is a public hospital located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India and is named after its founder – the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad – and was inaugurated by Princess Durreshehvar [1] It is an Institute ...
The National Incident Management System ( NIMS) is a standardized approach to incident management developed by the United States Department of Homeland Security. The program was established in March 2004, [1] in response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive -5, [1] [2] issued by President George W. Bush.