Editorial: Poliomyelitis Eradication in Iran: Opportunities and Challenges

In 1988, the forty- first World Health Assembly adopted a resolution for the worldwide eradication of polio. It launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) (1), in which the number of polio cases have decreased by a rate of over 99% since 1988, In 2011, it has been reported that the estimated number of cases which were 350000, decreased to 650 cases.