Table 1.
Surveillance Data on Cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) Not Caused by Poliomyelitis (Nonpolio AFP) With Onset of Paralysis Between 2010 and 2011 and Related Demographic Characteristics for Specified Regions of Pakistan
| Region | Demographya |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Population (N) | No. of Children Aged <15 Years | No. of Nonpolio AFP Cases (2010–2011) | Annual Rate of Nonpolio AFP (per 100,000 Children Aged <15 Years) | Median Age of Nonpolio AFP Cases, months | No. of Children Aged <24 Months | |
| Balochistan/FATA | 12,325,103 | 4,363,086 | 612 | 7.0 | 39.4 | 273 |
| KP | 22,393,497 | 7,927,298 | 1,656 | 10.4 | 44.4 | 567 |
| Sindh | 38,537,646 | 13,642,327 | 2,315 | 8.5 | 49.3 | 1,324 |
| Punjab | 93,219,441 | 32,999,682 | 4,194 | 6.4 | 49.1 | 589 |
| Other areas | 7,117,313 | 2,519,529 | 101 | 2.0 | 48.1 | —c |
| Total | 173,593,000 | 61,451,922 | 8,878 | 7.2 | 47.7 | 2,753 |
Abbreviations: AFP, acute flaccid paralysis; FATA, Federally Administered Tribal Areas; KP, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
a Total population based on the United Nations estimate for 2011 and regional breakdown provided by the most recent available census (1988).
b Surveillance is regarded as sufficient when at least 2 cases of nonpolio AFP are detected per 100,000 population aged <15 years per year.
c Observations from Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu, and Kashmir were not included in the analysis, owing to the small number of eligible cases (n = 20).