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This case describes key elements of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's (GPEI) campaign in India. It particularly focuses on the challenges faced in eliminating polio from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Throughout the 1990s, India began implementing coordinated national polio immunization days to supplement routine immunization in health clinics in an effort to eliminate polio from the nation. The case provides contextual information about India and Uttar Pradesh as well as polio and polio…

This case study describes Haiti’s school- and community-based polio vaccination campaigns targeting children to eradicate poliovirus. In 2000, Haiti experienced an outbreak of a vaccine-derived strain of the poliovirus. This case describes the Haitian government’s efforts, in coordination with international health organizations, to investigate and control the outbreak, and its subsequent launch of two national immunization campaigns in 2001: school-based vaccination of all children under 10, followed by house-to-house vaccination of all remaining eligible children.…