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Biting report on polio eradication effort calls for personnel, attitude changes
By: Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press
Posted: 10/20/2011 5:26 PM
The obstacles standing in the way of polio eradication now rest within the global eradication program itself and are not scientific challenges posed by the poliovirus, a bitingly candid new assessment of the program declares.
The latest report of an independent panel set up to assess the polio eradication effort questions why "tired and ineffective" managers are being left in key positions and suggests the program's perennially positive attitude may be getting in the way of getting the job done.
"We are convinced that polio can ? and must ? be eradicated. We are equally convinced that it will not be eradicated on the current trajectory. Important changes in style, commitment and accountability are essential," says the report, the third from the Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative...
Biting report on polio eradication effort calls for personnel, attitude changes
By: Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press
Posted: 10/20/2011 5:26 PM
The obstacles standing in the way of polio eradication now rest within the global eradication program itself and are not scientific challenges posed by the poliovirus, a bitingly candid new assessment of the program declares.
The latest report of an independent panel set up to assess the polio eradication effort questions why "tired and ineffective" managers are being left in key positions and suggests the program's perennially positive attitude may be getting in the way of getting the job done.
"We are convinced that polio can ? and must ? be eradicated. We are equally convinced that it will not be eradicated on the current trajectory. Important changes in style, commitment and accountability are essential," says the report, the third from the Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative...