title: Eradication of disease - the case study of polio.
abstract: Launched in October 1988 by the 41st World Health Assembly (WHA Resolution 41.28), the Global Polio Eradication Initiative aimed to eradicate poliomyelitis from the planet by the year 2000. It is the largest international public health initiative ever undertaken, costing several billion dollars and immunising billions of children worldwide. It has also been mired in controversy almost since its outset.
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa. barrys@nicd.ac.za
authors.forename: B D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Schoub
mesh_terms: D060740:Disease Eradication / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods*; D006285:Health Planning; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000266:history / Q000517:prevention & control*