What are the strategies used to eradicate polio?
There are four main strategies used to stop poliovirus: • supplementary doses of oral polio vaccine to all children under five years of age during national immunization days (NIDs); • high infant immunization coverage with four doses of oral polio vaccine in the first year of life (routine immunization); • surveillance for wild poliovirus through reporting and laboratory testing of all cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) among children under fifteen years of age; • targeted “mop-up” campaigns once wild poliovirus transmission is limited to a specific focal area.
