Core group - Polio eradication and Immunization

$11.48M USD

Funder	U.S. Agency for International Development
Recipient Organization	World Vision
Country	Ethiopia
Start Date	Dec 16, 2006
End Date	Jan 15, 2011
Duration	1,491 days
Number of Grantees	25
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`158159-76`

Grant Description

In Ethiopia, the CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) began in 2000 and has addressed a variety of challenges to reaching extraordinarily inaccessible communities with vaccination services and surveillance.

As a country at high risk for importation from conflict-ridden Somalia and South Sudan on its borders, Ethiopia must maintain high immunization rates and excellent surveillance.

CGPP has focused on reaching underserved rural and migrant populations, certainly to facilitate opportunities to vaccinate, but with at least as much focus on case search and reporting to maintain acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance quality.