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In 1958 A proposal was made by The Soviet Union to The World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1958 to commence smallpox global eradication. However 7 years into the programme there was limited availability of funding allocated by WHo towards the programme and contribution from other countries were inadequate. This necessitated the World Health Assembly to draft a a ten year plan as indicated by Henderson and Klepac (2013 for "systematic vaccination and a new concept-surveillance and containment". The same authors highlight that to promote surveillance containment teams and health facilities needed to report weekly any smallpox outbreak cases.

The new plan required WHO to increase their budget contribution including …show more content…

According to Pattanak et al. (1970) (cited in Henderson and Klepac, 2013) "birfucated vaccination needle"Which was easy to administer cheap and utilised a quarter of the required dose was developed in 1966 and this also contributed to the success of the programme. In India challenges were met in reporting of new cases and a modification of the surveillance-containment was initiated which focussed on regular and and searching continually for new cases.

What factors are similar amongst past and current eradication work? What factors are different? Eradication of disease is very costly, not easy to co-ordinate and there are also risk factors that can be encountered in the process. WHO 's eradication of small pox followed by malaria and polio have met with these challenges.

Historically it is evident that early intervention and access to treatment globally is essential for the success of any eradication programmes. Timeous responses to needs, flexibility to change planned course of action to meet challenges as highlighted above in India during the small pox eradication campaign are essential. Similarly robust monitoring of the disease, commitment by healthcare staff and donor agencies and operational research can yield positive

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