Position paper -  Polio vaccines and polio Immunization

Overview

In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to Member States on health policy matters, WHO issues a series of regularly updated position papers on vaccines and combinations of vaccines against diseases that have an international public health impact. These papers are concerned primarily with the use of vaccines in large-scale immunization programmes. They summarize essential background information on diseases and vaccines and conclude with the current WHO position on the use of vaccines worldwide.

This paper supersedes the WHO position paper entitled " Polio vaccines: WHO position paper, January 2014".

Grading of scientific evidence (effectiveness of OPV)

Grading of scientific evidence (OPV birth dose)

Grading of scientific evidence (duration of protection)

Grading of scientific evidence (effectiveness of IPV)

Grading of scientific evidence (IPV and OPV sequential administration)

Grading of scientific evidence (seroprevalence after additional dose of IPV)

Summary of WHO position paper on polio

Key references, with summaries, to the polio position paper

Presentation: Summary of key points - WHO position paper on polio