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Editorials and Reflection

Early in spring 2017, The CI approached a number of people to write brief editorials on their greatest hopes and fears for the polio eradication initiative at this point in time. Coming from different backgrounds and bringing different perspectives, some of them are from within the programme, and some are from outside; each has spent time reflecting on the programme and the challenges it faces as it moves closer to its ultimate goal. Below you will find contributions from the eight people who agreed to write for our 2017 editorial series. Their pieces reflect both the optimism that drives the programme and the hard-headed realism that has come to guide it.

Hopes and Fears Editorials

Access more polio editorials on The CI.

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Submitted by vivek_10 on Mon, 02/05/2018 - 14:00 Permalink

In India polio program (CORE Group Polio Project) Children's calling group (Bulawa Tolly) was one of the successful innovations. A group of children between 8-12 years age are trained by the community mobilizers prior to the each polio campaign through polio classes organized at the school. On the polio booth day they are assigned a particular area in their locality/village to bring the targeted children to the polio booth.