Polio Field Census and Vaccination of Underserved Populations — Northern Nigeria, 2012–2013

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Gidado, Saheed O. ; Nguku, Patrick M. ; Ohuabunwo, Chima J. ; Waziri, Ndadilnasiya E. ; Etsano, Andrew ; Mahmud, Mustapha Z. ; Shuaib, Faisal M. ; Korir, Charles K. ; Mkanda, Pascal ; Bloland, Peter B. ; Esapa, Lisa E. ; Kaplan, Brian C. ; Mahoney, Frank J. ; Mast, Eric E. ; Mba-Jonas, Adamma C. N. ; Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu U. ; Ruiz, Alicia G. ; Wassilak, Steve G. ; Wiesen, Eric S.
• Description:
  In 2012, the World Health Assembly declared completion of polio eradication a public health emergency. However, wild polioVirus (WPV) Transmission remains endemic in three countries (Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan). In Nigeria, the National Stop Transmission of Polio (N-STOP) program, under the umbrella of the Nigerian Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP), has been developed to implement innovative strategies that address the remaining polio eradication challenges in Nigeria. One N-STOP initiative focuses on locating and vaccinating children aged<5 years in remote nomadic, scattered, and border populations in northern Nigeria, where low polio vaccination coverage likely contributes to ongoing WPV Transmission. During August 2012-April 2013, N-STOP conducted field outreach activities that enumerated 40,212 remote settlements, including 4,613 (11.5%) settlements never visited by vaccination teams during previous polio supplemental immunization activities (SIAs). Enumeration resulted in documentation of 906,201 children aged<5 years residing in these settlements, including 53,738 (5.9%) who had never received polio vaccination, and in detection of 211 unreported cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) with onset of illness in the 6 months before enumeration. Sustaining access to underserved populations in remote settlements in future SIAs will increase overall population immunity and should decrease WPV Transmission. By providing a flexible and capable workforce consisting of Nigerian citizens, N-STOP is able to support evaluation and implementation of innovative polio eradication strategies in Nigeria while building local public health capacity with a potential to address other public health problems following the eradication of polio from Nigeria.
• Subjects:
  Censuses Child, Preschool Community-Institutional Relations Health Services Accessibility Humans Immunization Programs Infant Poliomyelitis PolioVirus Vaccines Vulnerable Populations
• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 2013; 62(33):663-665.
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  23965829
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4604797
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Nigeria
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• Volume:
  62
• Issue:
  33
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/54686/cdc_54686_DS1.pdf
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