Sanofi

Polio

Contributing to keeping India polio-free:

The development of effective vaccines for prevention of paralytic polio has been a major medical breakthrough of the 20th century. According to the World Health Organization, polio vaccine, given multiple times, almost always protects a child for life. 1

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has launched the ‘Polio Eradication Strategy 2022–2026’, to permanently interrupt polio transmission and protect the historic progress made globally on the path to eradication, by employing all opportunities to vaccinate children. 2

Sanofi became the first contributor of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) to India when it was declared polio-free in 2014 after recording no case since January 2011. Sanofi continues to supply IPV to the Government of India.

Immunization for polio is recommended by the Indian Academy of Pediatrics from infancy to school age.3 Sanofi has strengthened the fight against Polio by providing combination vaccines with Pertussis from infancy to school age.

Circulating wild polio virus in nearby countries

References:

  1. https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/diseases/poliomyelitis-(polio)
  2. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240031937
  3. https://www.indianpediatrics.net/feb2024/113.pdf
  4. https://polioeradication.org/wild-poliovirus-count/