Abstract
The Global Certification Commission (GCC), Regional Certification Commissions (RCCs), and National Certification Committees (NCCs) provide a framework of independent bodies to assist the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in certifying and maintaining polio eradication in a standardized, ongoing, and credible manner. Their members meet regularly to comprehensively review population immunity, surveillance, laboratory, and other data to assess polio status in the country (NCC), World Health Organization (WHO) region (RCC), or globally (GCC). These highly visible bodies provide a framework to be replicated to independently verify measles and rubella elimination in the regions and globally.
Highlights
As of 2016, there has been considerable progress on the 1988 World Health Assembly Declaration on global polio eradication; only 3 countries (Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan) remain endemic for wild polio virus (WPV)
The last indigenous WPV type 2 (WPV2) case was identified in 1999 and WPV2 was declared eradicated in September 2015; the last WPV type 3 (WPV3) case was identified in November 2012 [1]
With eradication as an achievable goal in the short term, the process has begun for transitioning polio-related assets, primarily housed within the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), into assets for other global health-related goals, such as (1) measles and rubella elimination, and (2) increasing routine immunization coverage
Summary
Regional and Global Certification Bodies for Polio Eradication: A Framework for Verifying Measles Elimination. The Global Certification Commission (GCC), Regional Certification Commissions (RCCs), and National Certification Committees (NCCs) provide a framework of independent bodies to assist the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in certifying and maintaining polio eradication in a standardized, ongoing, and credible manner. Their members meet regularly to comprehensively review population immunity, surveillance, laboratory, and other data to assess polio status in the country (NCC), World Health Organization (WHO) region (RCC), or globally (GCC). This paper will detail the structure, composition, and history of the polio certification process, and describe how it has already begun to be used for the validation of future global health goals as well as leaving open the possibility of additional future applications
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