| Printable Copy |
 |
| Printable Copy |
|
Five Million Hits – Reflections on Polio Surveillance
Attentive readers will by now have noticed that this website has just gone over 5 million hits. Rather than celebrating, let us take a careful look at AFP surveillance, which is one key issue in the endgame of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, and at environmental sampling for poliovirus.
AFP SURVEILLANCE
Were the AFP surveillance gaps identified last year in Northeast Nigeria the only ones of recent date? Where primary health care structures are especially fragile, as in DRC and the other states of central Africa, what will be the impact of declining budgets on AFP surveillance performance?
I am listing below, in descending order by page views, the most popular items on AFP surveillance to have appeared since 2010. As we witness the accelerated downsizing of GPEI funding, especially in nonendemic countries of Africa, we should look at possible chinks in the armor of AFP surveillance. Items 3, 5 and 9 may be of special interest.
ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE
Students of polio virology in Egypt and Israel will be familiar with the important role played by environmental surveillance in those countries, among others, in detecting the presence of polio where AFP reports are negative. As the world approaches the new target for global certification of 2021, the expanding use of environmental surveillance will continue to serve as a complement to AFP surveillance. Items 3, 5, 7, and 8 may be of special interest.
Good reading.
Anthony Kaguimah
Webmaster
CITATIONS ON AFP SURVEILLANCE
|
1. ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS IN CONGO, 2010 |
1469 pageviews |
|
|
2. ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS ASSOCIATED WITH NOVEL ENTEROVIRUS C105 http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=4369 |
1455 |
|
|
3. REASONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES FOR THE LATE NOTIFICATION OF ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS (AFP) CASES IN HEALTH FACILITIES IN LUANDA http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=3679 |
1129 |
|
|
4. - - - EVALUATING THE AFP SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM IN SOUTH AFRICA, 2005-2009 http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=2025 |
1011 |
|
|
5. EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND DISTANCE ON THE VIRAL OUTCOME OF CLINICAL SPECIMENS FROM AFP CASES IN NIGERIA http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=389 |
997 |
|
|
6. Vaccine associated paralytic poliomyelitis cases from children presenting with acute flaccid paralysis in Uganda http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5356 |
776 |
|
|
7. Expansion of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance: beyond poliomyelitis http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5192 |
767 |
|
|
8. Acute Flaccid Paralysis: The New, The Old, and The Preventable http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5542
|
265 |
|
|
9. Health Conditions for Travellers to Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj), 2016 – Performance of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) Surveillance and Incidence of Poliomyelitis, 2016 http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6194 |
223 |
|
CITATIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE
|
1. ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING IN POLIO SURVEILLANCE, SWITZERLAND |
1398 |
|
2. ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLIOVIRUS SURVEILLANCE IN GLOBAL POLIO ERADICATION AND BEYOND http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=1395 |
1270 |
|
3. INTENSIFIED ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=2798 |
1056 |
|
4. ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE OF POLIOVIRUS IN SEWAGE WATER AROUND THE INTRODUCTION PERIOD OF INACTIVATED POLIO VACCINE IN JAPAN http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=3786 |
1024 |
|
5. POLIOVIRUS DETECTED FROM ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES IN ISRAEL – W.H.O. UPDATE http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=2177 |
1009 |
|
6. NEW THIS THURSDAY: TWO ITEMS ON POLIO AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING IN ISRAEL, THE WEST BANK, AND GAZA http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=2482 |
969 |
|
7. Contribution of Environmental Surveillance toward Interruption of Poliovirus Transmission in Nigeria, 2012–2015 http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5711 |
301 |
|
8. Polio-vaccination drive targets children after strain found in India [from environmental sampling] http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6144 |
241 |