2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100144
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Eradication of wild poliovirus in Nigeria: Lessons learnt

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“…The boycott lasted 16 months and this movement resulted in the spread of polio infections within the country, as well as across other neighboring countries [ 14 ]. Nigeria was one of a few countries that had not eradicated wild polio in 2020 [ 15 ]. One of the important reasons for this boycott is believed to be related to public trust and especially distrust of the federal government, which advocated the polio eradication campaign.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The boycott lasted 16 months and this movement resulted in the spread of polio infections within the country, as well as across other neighboring countries [ 14 ]. Nigeria was one of a few countries that had not eradicated wild polio in 2020 [ 15 ]. One of the important reasons for this boycott is believed to be related to public trust and especially distrust of the federal government, which advocated the polio eradication campaign.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Not only that, prior evaluations of the GPEI efforts in different countries have shown that buy-in from communities via community engagement activities such as awareness campaigns, information and education sessions, door-to-door messaging, crossborder initiatives, among others is important for parents to maintain compliance to vaccinations for their children [41]. The GPEI efforts have also set up operating systems within communities to distribute bed nets for malaria prevention in Nigeria or provide deworming medication for Guinea worms in Ethiopia as a way to establish a footing and build trust with those communities [42,43]. Additionally, strategies developed and improved as part of the PLOS GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH GPEI efforts have the potential to improve maternal and child health across other communities, hard to reach, marginalized populations across the globe [44].…”
Section: Plos Global Public Healthmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, about 1 in 1000 WPV infections result in acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), meaning that most asymptomatic cases are not detected ( Hamisu et al., 2022 ). Africa was declared free of indigenous WPV in August 2020, after Nigeria, which was formerly considered endemic for WPV type 1, achieved WPV-free status following 3 years of no reported cases (WHO, 2021 ; Ekwebelem et al., 2021 ). Poliovirus belongs to the Picornaviridae family and there are three types of WPV: type 2 and type 3 were eradicated in 2015 and 2019, respectively ( CDC, 2020 ), while type 1 remains endemic in two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan ( WHO Africa, 2022a ), due to people not having received all of the required polio vaccination doses to induce adequate immunity.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%