🌍 The Final Mile: Tackling Community Resistance in the Poliomyelitis Eradication Effort
Description The Poliomyelitis challenge is a non-commercial, global health imperative focused on eradicating the disease by overcoming logistical, geopolitical, and community trust barriers to universal vaccination.
Achieving the final goal of poliomyelitis eradication is one of the most complex non-commercial public health challenges in history, extending beyond the mere availability of the Inactivated Poliovirus (IPV) and Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV). The remaining pockets of transmission are primarily due to deep-seated barriers, including community distrust in health workers, logistical difficulties in reaching migratory populations, and geopolitical conflicts that restrict access to children in endemic areas. Sustained political and financial commitment is necessary to maintain the high-quality surveillance and tailored, local social mobilization efforts required to deliver the final vaccine doses and secure a polio-free world.