Polio Stripe

The world is very close to polio eradication, yet winning this battle is painfully challenging. For achieving global polio-free, any strategies would not work. Evidence-based strategies by learning from other success stories is a must. Learning from the field becomes critical to understanding how we get to this point, what we miss and how to maintain the current success. For that reason, collecting information and synthesize knowledge about the polio eradication program in global settings are urgently needed.

The Center for Tropical Medicine UGM, under a consortium lead by The Johns Hopkins University, aims to collect, map out, and synthesize information about strategies, milestones and challenges in the polio eradication program in Indonesia. We are not alone. There are seven countries, including Indonesia, that worked together to collect the knowledge. Started in 2018, our researchers have collaborated with the Ministry of Health, local government, academics, researchers, health workers and other stakeholders to record the information needed. As the last milestone of this research, the entire consortium worked together to compile and disseminate the knowledge to all health professionals and the wider community.