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Front. Public Health

Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention

Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1663402

This article is part of the Research TopicAdvancing Public Health Preparedness and Response in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Challenges, Opportunities, and Ways Forward – Insights from the 8th EMPHNET Regional ConferenceView all 5 articles

Optimizing Preparedness and Response for circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus (cVDPV) outbreaks in the Eastern Mediterranean Region with a particular focus on cVDPV2

Provisionally accepted
Nadine HaddadNadine Haddad1*Najwa JarourNajwa Jarour1Hemant ShuklaHemant Shukla2Asnakew TsegaAsnakew Tsega3Irfan AkbarIrfan Akbar2Mohannad Al NsourMohannad Al Nsour4Magid GunaidMagid Gunaid4Yousef KhaderYousef Khader4
  • 1The Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET), Amman, Jordan
  • 2World Health Organisation Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt
  • 3United Nations agency for children, Middle East and North African Regional office (MENARO), amman, Jordan
  • 4Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network, Amman, Jordan

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Efforts to achieve polio eradication in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) are confronted by several barriers stemming from the volatile security and political instability in several countries, to social contextual challenges such as inaccessible and mobile/displaced population, to logistic issues hindering optimal implementation of immunization and surveillance interventions. To further understand these challenges and emphasize improvement areas, the Eighth Regional Conference of the Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET), that was held in Amman, Jordan from September 15-18, 2023, featured a workshop focused on scaling up outbreak preparedness and response efforts. A variety of relevant experts and audiences from outbreak and at-risk countries in the EMR described their capacities, best practices and lessons learned from their national experiences. Overall recommendations were outlined, aiming to enhance preparedness and response to cVDPV outbreak in target countries and in the region overall.

Keywords: CVDPV (Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus), polio, Preparedness & Response, Eastern Mediterranean (EM), Acute flaccid paralyses

Received: 10 Jul 2025; Accepted: 30 Jul 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Haddad, Jarour, Shukla, Tsega, Akbar, Al Nsour, Gunaid and Khader. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Nadine Haddad, The Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET), Amman, Jordan

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