Key result
Pakistan polio eradication remains hindered by operational deficits and vaccine mistrust, requiring effective global partnerships.
Why the study?
Pakistan remains one of only three countries globally where poliomyelitis is still endemic, necessitating efforts to control and eradicate the disease.
Pakistan remains one of the last polio-endemic countries, facing challenges such as vaccine mistrust, operational deficits, and security issues, though significant progress has been made in reducing case numbers.
Requires sustained surveillance in endemic regions; leaves open which partnership models best address vaccine mistrust.
Poliomyelitis is a highly endemic and fetal disease, which mainly act on children under five years of age initial to irreversible paralysis and possibly death. For decades, both private and government organizations have been putting trials through their partnership to eradicate polio entirely from the different parts of the globe and as a result of those trials are left with only three countries which are now polio endemic. Since Pakistan is one of those three countries which still remain polio endemic along with Nigeria and Afghanistan. Therefore, it is important to deal with this issue and work on the remedy to control the situations of such harmful disease.
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Hafiz Husnain Nawaz (2020) conducted a review in Poliomyelitis. Polio vaccination (OPV/IPV) was evaluated. Polio eradication in Pakistan remains challenged by operational deficits, immunization inequities, poor health infrastructure, and vaccine mistrust, requiring effective regional and global partnerships.