ISLAMABAD: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has welcomed a report from the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) on polio.
According to GPEI, the report highlighted the geopolitical shifts impacting all global health efforts, including the GPEI.
“The programme agrees with the IMB that the reduction in historic donor support — if realised — will create new challenges.
In response, the GPEI is identifying ambitious, operational shifts that will help countries fully leverage and align more limited resources to address the resurgence of wild poliovirus in the final endemic countries and counter longstanding barriers to reaching children with polio vaccines in subnational regions facing humanitarian crises,” it stated.
