Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 02/2015

U.S. Support Essential to Ambitious Global Introduction of Inactivated Polio Vaccine

Nellie Bristol

December 2014

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Abstract

Earlier this fall, Nepal became the first low-income country to introduce the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) into its immunization system. Many more countries will have to follow suit to meet the ambitious deadlines laid out in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s Polio Eradication & Endgame Strategic Plan 2013–2018.