This year, 2023, is when the worldwide community is positioned to entirely interrupt polio transmission in children, per the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Strategy 2022-2026.
The GPEI stated on January 24, 2023, a unique epidemiological window of opportunity has presented itself this year that 'we must capitalize on.'
It is the nature of a highly infectious disease that spreads easily with population movements that outbreaks will continue to occur until polio is gone from all areas.
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