Polio Campaigns in Africa
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We have made great achievements in global immunizations, specifically with polio eradication. In 1988, there were 350,000 cases of polio in 125 countries, and in 2016 there were only 27 cases worldwide concentrated in the endemic countries of countries of Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, which equates to a 99 percent reduction of this crippling disease.
In 2016, there were only four cases of wild poliovirus in sub-Saharan Africa, all detected in Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa. In an effort to reach and protect children not reached by routine immunization services, oral polio immunization campaigns are being conducted in several African countries, with support from technical staff from CDC’s Global Immunization Division. The photos below are from polio immunization campaigns conducted in Africa from 2015 -2016.
Cameroon: Dr. Louie Rosencrans from CDC’s Global Immunization Division at the local chief’s palace on his way back from supervising a polio immunization campaign, Centre region, Cameroon.
Cameroon: Local leaders play a critical role in creating awareness and mobilizing families to have their children vaccinated. Here local leaders are participating in a polio immunization campaign in Cameroon.
Cameroon: The temporary mark on this baby’s finger verifies that he received the polio vaccine.
Cameroon: Vaccination teams in a market place promoting the polio campaign
Cameroon: Members of the vaccination team (center and right) at a health center to vaccinate children. On the left is the director of the health facility.
Cameroon: A microplan map of Bakou district in Cameroon. Microplans are used to plan all of the details for immunization campaigns including the locations of villages, schools, health centers, difficult-to-reach areas, target populations, and resources needed. Hand-drawn maps such as the one in this photo are in the process of being replaced with more accurate, digitized microplan maps in Cameroon.
Cameroon: Smartphones are being used increasingly in immunization programs to streamline data collection and data management. Here a Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP) data manager, WHO Immunization data manager, and a mapping expert are setting up new smartphones with apps for supportive supervision, post-campaign coverage surveys and acute flaccid paralysis case investigations.
Guinea: Vaccination team vaccinating children at a nursery school.
Guinea: Vaccination teams posted at bus stations check outgoing and incoming buses for children aged under 5 years.
Cameroon: The social mobilization team promoting the campaign with a trader in a market place in Bamenda, North West region.
Cameroon: Vaccination team markers on homes indicate that the homes were visited and that children in the homes were vaccinated.
Cameroon: This child looks on as he receives his dose of the oral polio vaccine in the North West region of Cameroon.
Cameroon: A child in the arms of her mother receiving her dose of the oral polio vaccine.
Democratic Republic of the Congo: A child being vaccinated during a polio campaign in Kalemie
Guinea: Social mobilizers circulate in public places, such as markets, to announce the polio campaign prior to its launching.
Cameroon: Vaccination team in training, in preparation for an upcoming polio campaign
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Dr. Aissata Diaha from CDC’s Global Immunization Division administering the oral polio vaccine to a child during the polio immunization campaign in a remote area of Lubumbashi.
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