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The Polio Pipeline newsletter provides a look at what is coming down the pipeline in terms of research for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. This quarterly electronic newsletter is to keep partners and stakeholders informed on the goals, strategies and status of ongoing and upcoming research. In addition to news on research, each issue also features frequently-asked questions and upcoming publications.

To subscribe to the Polio Pipeline, send an email to the Research and Product Development of the Polio Eradication Department at WHO: polioresearch@who.int .

All issues are downloadable in PDF below.


  • Polio Pipeline Issue 06 Summer 2010: This issue of Polio Pipeline gives an overview research has played in informing and finalizing the new Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Strategic Plan 2010-2012, which was endorsed by the World Health Assembly in May. An accelerated research agenda helped to develop and evaluate a range of new tools and approaches to tackle the remaining barriers to eradication in the remaining endemic areas, and facilitate more thorough outbreak response. Among other topics, in this issue you will find overviews of the programmatic benefits of the new bivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV), new ways to identify programmatic gaps and provide a clearer epidemiological picture, and the role of mathematical modelling in identifying countries/areas at particular risk of outbreaks. These, and other new approaches, are all institutionalized in the new Strategic Plan, and research will continue to play a key role in helping to monitor its implementation and further sensitize the approaches.

  • Polio Pipeline Issue 05 Winter 2010: This issue gives an update on the outcomes of the recently-held Polio Research Committee, highlights ongoing research needs in particular on further understanding mucosal immunity in India and addressing low vaccine coverage in Nigeria, and outlines new approaches such as the Short Interval Additional Dose (SIAD) strategy.
     

  • Polio Pipeline Issue 04 Summer 2009: This issue gives an update on the outcomes of the recently-held Polio Research Committee, highlights ongoing research needs, and provides an overview of major vaccine trials in India, including the outcomes of an evaluation of the new bivalent oral polio vaccine.

  • Polio Pipeline Issue 03, Winter 2009: This issue gives an update on the outcomes of the recently-held Polio Research Committee, highlights ongoing research needs, and provides an overview of ongoing work into 'improving inactivated polio vaccine (IPV)'

  • Polio Pipeline Issue 02, Autumn 2008:  Polio lab network, new state-of-the-art diagnostic method, the role of mathematical modeling, Polio vaccine development: monovalents, Seroprevalence surveys.

  • Polio Pipeline Issue 01, Summer 2008:  introduction to polio research, the Polio Research Committee inaugural meeting, eliminating needles, improving IPV, bivalent OPV, conclusions of Advisory Committee on Polio Eradication 2007.







 

 


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