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Entering third polio-free year, India must destroy all wild poliovirus lab samples by December
Having successfully completed two polio-free years, India is preparing to receive the crucial polio eradication certificate from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The certificate is issued on completion of incident-free three years. This primarily involves the destruction or safe storage of all laboratory sources of wild poliovirus. The storage should be in laboratories that meet international standards of biosafety.
To achieve this, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has set up a National Task Force for Containment of Wild Poliovirus. Chaired by the Director-General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), it will identify laboratories that could store wild poliovirus or potentially infectious material.
Wild poliovirus could be present in certain types of clinical samples stored at or below minus 20 degrees Celsius. These could have been collected for investigations not related to wild poliovirus detections. There are several medical colleges/universities, colleges and research institutions that work on infectious material and, therefore, have clinical samples collected over several decades. Information from these institutions will be collected and compiled for preparing a national inventory.
The process has to be completed by December and failure to do so will delay the certification process. Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth has personally written to the Chief Secretaries of State governments on behalf of the Health Ministry, seeking their cooperation in taking the process forward with a sense of extreme urgency. A pre-tested form has been sent to all laboratories and institutions to elicit information on wild poliovirus.
The WHO’s Global Action Plan for containment of wild polioviruses advises that when polio cases are decreasing, national health authorities must alert laboratories, encourage destruction of all unneeded wild poliovirus material and compile an inventory of all laboratories retaining such materials.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...io-eradication-certificate/article4591883.ece
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Gates praises India's success in polio eradication
India's success in polio eradication has infused positive energy into the global campaign against the disease, Bill Gates, founder-chairperson of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said on Thursday.
Terming India's experience with polio eradication a “big thing,” he said he had spent more time on this programme than anything else. “It is a real achievement.”
Interacting with a group of journalists here, Mr. Gates said India kept upgrading the quality of its polio-eradication programme, expanding its reach and improving upon social marketing. “We have [a] lot of lessons to learn from it.”
He expressed the hope that Asia would be polio-free, with Pakistan and Afghanistan making efforts to eradicate the disease.
Mr. Gates, who met with a nine-member Pakistani delegation which was here to learn from India's campaign, said the situation in that country was different, as many people still did not know that the disease travelled with people. “Pashtuns are migratory in nature. …but mapping has not been done so far… Pakistan has very few cases of polio in inaccessible areas, particularly in the northern parts and those bordering India, that need to be addressed,” he said. Pakistan was making progress and had put a top team on the job, so his Foundation was pumping money into the programme.
“Every country has unique circumstances. In India, the government was the primary backer of the polio eradication programme with a large number of contributors.”
After successfully completing the AVAHAN Project on HIV/AIDS, the Foundation was concentrating on vaccinating children against such infectious diseases as diarrhoea, pneumonia, polio and malaria. It was collaborating with Indian pharmaceutical companies and the government on new drugs for these diseases.
Given India's size, health was a big challenge, he said, requiring substantial work that still needed to be done. Everything was getting better, except the slow progress in vaccination, though the introduction of pentavalent vaccine was a positive sign. He lauded India's decision to make tuberculosis a notifiable disease, but noted that cases of drug-resistant and extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis were a problem.
EARLIER IN THE DAY, MR. GATES AND HIS TEAM CALLED ON UNION MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE GHULAM NABI AZAD. THEY DISCUSSED ISSUES RELATING TO THE IMMUNISATION PROGRAMME, PENTAVALENT VACCINE, HIV/AIDS AND INFECTIOUS AND NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
MR. GATES WAS PARTICULARLY APPRECIATIVE OF INDIA'S ACHIEVEMENT IN CONTAINING AIDS, POLIO MANAGEMENT, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INITIATIVES, AND ALSO THE RECENT STEPS FOR TUBERCULOSIS MANAGEMENT. IN FACT, INDIA'S PROGRESS EXCEEDED HIS EXPECTATIONS, HE SAID.
@KRAIT [MENTION=31270]@Srinivas @danger007 @Abingdonboy @Dillinger [MENTION=31270]@Koovie
and all other brothers..im sure with in a decade india is going to be a much better nation..a much developed nation..what say you?
Having successfully completed two polio-free years, India is preparing to receive the crucial polio eradication certificate from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The certificate is issued on completion of incident-free three years. This primarily involves the destruction or safe storage of all laboratory sources of wild poliovirus. The storage should be in laboratories that meet international standards of biosafety.
To achieve this, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has set up a National Task Force for Containment of Wild Poliovirus. Chaired by the Director-General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), it will identify laboratories that could store wild poliovirus or potentially infectious material.
Wild poliovirus could be present in certain types of clinical samples stored at or below minus 20 degrees Celsius. These could have been collected for investigations not related to wild poliovirus detections. There are several medical colleges/universities, colleges and research institutions that work on infectious material and, therefore, have clinical samples collected over several decades. Information from these institutions will be collected and compiled for preparing a national inventory.
The process has to be completed by December and failure to do so will delay the certification process. Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth has personally written to the Chief Secretaries of State governments on behalf of the Health Ministry, seeking their cooperation in taking the process forward with a sense of extreme urgency. A pre-tested form has been sent to all laboratories and institutions to elicit information on wild poliovirus.
The WHO’s Global Action Plan for containment of wild polioviruses advises that when polio cases are decreasing, national health authorities must alert laboratories, encourage destruction of all unneeded wild poliovirus material and compile an inventory of all laboratories retaining such materials.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...io-eradication-certificate/article4591883.ece
in other news
Gates praises India's success in polio eradication
India's success in polio eradication has infused positive energy into the global campaign against the disease, Bill Gates, founder-chairperson of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said on Thursday.
Terming India's experience with polio eradication a “big thing,” he said he had spent more time on this programme than anything else. “It is a real achievement.”
Interacting with a group of journalists here, Mr. Gates said India kept upgrading the quality of its polio-eradication programme, expanding its reach and improving upon social marketing. “We have [a] lot of lessons to learn from it.”
He expressed the hope that Asia would be polio-free, with Pakistan and Afghanistan making efforts to eradicate the disease.
Mr. Gates, who met with a nine-member Pakistani delegation which was here to learn from India's campaign, said the situation in that country was different, as many people still did not know that the disease travelled with people. “Pashtuns are migratory in nature. …but mapping has not been done so far… Pakistan has very few cases of polio in inaccessible areas, particularly in the northern parts and those bordering India, that need to be addressed,” he said. Pakistan was making progress and had put a top team on the job, so his Foundation was pumping money into the programme.
“Every country has unique circumstances. In India, the government was the primary backer of the polio eradication programme with a large number of contributors.”
After successfully completing the AVAHAN Project on HIV/AIDS, the Foundation was concentrating on vaccinating children against such infectious diseases as diarrhoea, pneumonia, polio and malaria. It was collaborating with Indian pharmaceutical companies and the government on new drugs for these diseases.
Given India's size, health was a big challenge, he said, requiring substantial work that still needed to be done. Everything was getting better, except the slow progress in vaccination, though the introduction of pentavalent vaccine was a positive sign. He lauded India's decision to make tuberculosis a notifiable disease, but noted that cases of drug-resistant and extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis were a problem.
EARLIER IN THE DAY, MR. GATES AND HIS TEAM CALLED ON UNION MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE GHULAM NABI AZAD. THEY DISCUSSED ISSUES RELATING TO THE IMMUNISATION PROGRAMME, PENTAVALENT VACCINE, HIV/AIDS AND INFECTIOUS AND NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
MR. GATES WAS PARTICULARLY APPRECIATIVE OF INDIA'S ACHIEVEMENT IN CONTAINING AIDS, POLIO MANAGEMENT, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INITIATIVES, AND ALSO THE RECENT STEPS FOR TUBERCULOSIS MANAGEMENT. IN FACT, INDIA'S PROGRESS EXCEEDED HIS EXPECTATIONS, HE SAID.
@KRAIT [MENTION=31270]@Srinivas @danger007 @Abingdonboy @Dillinger [MENTION=31270]@Koovie
and all other brothers..im sure with in a decade india is going to be a much better nation..a much developed nation..what say you?
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