TY - JOUR AU - Shakeel, Shahella Idrees AU - Brown, Matthew AU - Sethi, Shakeel AU - Mackey, Tim K. PY - 2019 DA - 2019/01/17 TI - Achieving the end game: employing “vaccine diplomacy” to eradicate polio in Pakistan JO - BMC Public Health SP - 79 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - On April 28, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared polio a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (PHIC) under the authority of the International Health Regulations. Although polio has been eradicated from nearly every nation on earth, Pakistan is one of three countries where wild polio and vaccine-derived polio strains remain, thwarting global eradication efforts. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6393-1 DO - 10.1186/s12889-019-6393-1 ID - Shakeel2019 ER -