CDC: Global Immunizations and Vaccinations
Directory of links to documents and organizations involved in the control or eradication of illnesses around the world.
www.cdc.gov/nip/global
Disease Eradication and Health Systems Development
1999 article assessing the opportunities and threats posed by disease eradication and elimination programs to local health systems.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su48a8.htm
Disease Eradication: Friend or Foe to the Health System?
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Report to the World Health Organization summarizing studies of the Polio Eradication Initiative in Tanzania, Nepal, and Laos.
www.who.int/vaccines-documents/DocsPDF00/www552.pdf
Eradication and Elimination of Six Infectious Diseases
Testimony by representatives of the CDC, WHO, USAID, and others from a 1998 hearing before the U.S. Committee on International Relations.
commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa50550.000/hfa50550_0.htm
Eradication: Lessons From the Past
Considers the viability of disease eradication by contrasting the failure of a malaria campaign with the successful smallpox program.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su48a6.htm
Principles of Disease Elimination and Eradication
Explains the difference between disease elimination and eradication and describes the criteria to consider before attempting to do either.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su48a7.htm
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