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STOP Program : history of STOP

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    Updated May 26, 2022

    The STOP Program recruits and trains international public health consultants and deploys them to countries around the world to strengthen national immunization surveillance programs, support supplemental immunization activities, respond to disease outbreaks, and help support polio eradication. The program is run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

    The STOP Program began in 1998 as part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiativeexternal icon (GPEI). The first STOP team had 25 participants. Since then, STOP has recruited, trained, and deployed over 2,200 consultants, serving on over 4,900 assignments in 80 countries across all six World Health Organization (WHO) regions (Africa, the Americas, South-East Asia, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, and Western Pacific).

    In the first years of the program, the primary focus of STOP was to help advance progress toward polio eradication. Early STOP consultants worked to strengthen acute flaccid paralysis surveillance, support polio national immunization days, and assist with polio case investigations and follow-up. Though polio eradication is still a key priority for the STOP Program, current STOP consultants also support detection and control efforts for other vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD), such as measles, rubella, yellow fever, tetanus, and cholera.

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    History of STOP -- STOP Helps Build and Sustain Immunization Capacity Within Countries.
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