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Impact of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative
- Since the global initiative began in 1988, three million people
in the developing world, who would have been paralyzed, are walking
because they have been immunized against polio. Nearly two billion
children worldwide have been immunized during national immunization
days in the last five years, including 147 million children in a single
day in India.
- Tens of thousands of public health workers have been trained to
investigate cases of paralysis and manage immunization programmes.
- On average, one out of 250 people in a country are involved in
polio immunization campaigns. Tens of millions of volunteers have
been trained to deliver oral polio vaccine and vitamin A.
- In 1999, over 50 countries gave vitamin A during polio national
immunization days, preventing the deaths of an estimated 250,000 children.
- Cold chain, transport and communications systems for immunization
have been strengthened.
- A polio laboratory network of 148 polio laboratories has been established.
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