This conference-debate was held on October 22nd, 2013.
The polio eradication campaign has indeniably and remarkably succeeded in tumbling down the number of polio cases worldwide. But difficulties currently faced by the Programme - pockets of social resistance in several countries, reinfection of some countries, outbreak of epidemics associated with strains of vaccine-derived polio viruses - indeed challenge one of the main assumptions underlying the objective of the eradication itself : the full compliance of an entire population to a public health program.
In order to overcome some of the above-mentionned difficulties, there is a growing tendency, as observed in Pakistan or in Nigeria for instance, to adopt coercive measures either to protect vaccination teams or to enforce the vaccination itself. Some of those measures question the strategy of eradication at all costs.
This public roudtable was organized with Dr Rashid Jooma, from Aga Khan university, Karachi, Dr Elisha Renne, professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan ; Johannes Everts, WHO technical expert and Dr Hamid Jafari, Director of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative WHO.
Summary
0:00 Introduction and presentation of panelists
8:42 The challenges confronting eradication in Pakistan
17:15 An outbreak of polio vaccination staff murders
30:33 Polio eradication worldwide: facts and figures
53:57 Polio vaccination in northern Nigeria: resistance and coercion
1:11:14 Routine vaccination and eradication, an impossible balance?
1:15:55 Eradication, a model example?
1:18:46 Resisting vaccination, a form of protest?
1:20:45 “The Last Mile”, at a forced pace
1:35:40 Vaccination strategies and staff security
1:47:42 Is Polio eradication still a priority
1:56:42 Conclusion: the end of polio?
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