Update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative on programmatic challenges and accountability

Update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative on programmatic challenges and accountability

Field workers during a polio vaccination campaign in Bihar, India, © WHO The final phase of the polio eradication effort has proven to be the toughest. The number of children paralyzed by polio has been reduced by 99% over the last four decades, but the virus continues to spread in some of the most difficult places on the planet to deliver healthcare— places that face persistent insecurity, political instability and weak health infrastructure. T…