Project profile — Support for Polio Eradication Activities in sub-Saharan Africa - UNICEF

• Africa, regional (100.00%)

• Basic Health: Infectious disease control (12250) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The project aims to support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s polio eradication efforts. It is designed to prevent the resurgence of the disease and improve Polio control capacity through integrated delivery of health services. This is being achieved by delivering mass campaigns or services, reaching high rates of coverage of the polio vaccine amongst the target population of children under five; carrying out approximately 10 million vaccinations; promoting integrated delivery of services by combining preventative health services and other health and nutrition interventions with Polio vaccination; and mobilizing and training health workers to work on the polio program. This is one of two parts of CIDA’s support for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The other part is implemented by the World Health Organization.

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Results achieved as of June 2012 include: (i) in Afghanistan, four national immunization days and two sub-national immunization days were conducted in 2011(with coverage of 95% in most areas); new strategies including the Short Interval Additional Doses (SIADs) and “permanent polio teams” were successfully introduced ; (ii) in Nigeria, social mobilization and communication activities were conducted during all immunization plus days at all levels; a national communication plan was developed; a dedicated website www.poliofreenigeria.com was established; new community-based communication initiatives were piloted to reduce the number of missed children and non-compliance; (iii) in Sudan, 3,276,000 doses of oral poliomyelitis vaccine in 2010 and 2011 to vaccinate more than 3 million children; in 2010, three national campaigns and one sub-national campaign were conducted targeting 6.6 million children under-five years old; coverage during the campaigns ranged between 96% and 102%.

• Proactive disclosure
• Related activities: Support for Polio Eradication activities in sub-Saharan Africa - WHO