History of a Strategy to Eradicate Poliomyelitis in Uruguay and Argentina

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the different health policies applied in Argentina and Uruguay from 1960. Since then, immunization programs population against polio began orally. This research seeks to explain and link the health history of both countries, explaining the planning entities that were proposed to control the disease.

In the fifties, both countries suffered the onset of the “infantile paralysis” in epidemic form, panic disease mainly linked to childhood, was accompanied by a hopeful spirit in the power of vaccination and thereafter tested various solutions some of which were common to both nations and others by different and antagonistic opposite.