| progress toward poliomyelitis eradication - pakistan, january 2015-september 2016. | pakistan, afghanistan, and nigeria remain the only countries where endemic wild poliovirus type 1 (wpv1) transmission continues. this report describes the activities, challenges, and progress toward polio eradication in pakistan during january 2015-september 2016 and updates previous reports (1,2). in 2015, a total of 54 wpv1 cases were reported in pakistan, an 82% decrease from 2014. in 2016, 15 wpv1 cases had been reported as of november 1, representing a 61% decrease compared with the 38 case ... | 2016 | 27880752 |
| a new method for estimating the coverage of mass vaccination campaigns against poliomyelitis from surveillance data. | mass vaccination campaigns with the oral poliovirus vaccine targeting children aged <5 years are a critical component of the global poliomyelitis eradication effort. monitoring the coverage of these campaigns is essential to allow corrective action, but current approaches are limited by their cross-sectional nature, nonrandom sampling, reporting biases, and accessibility issues. we describe a new bayesian framework using data augmentation and markov chain monte carlo methods to estimate variatio ... | 2015 | 26568569 |