WHO Health and Emergency Response Support Grant: Polio Eradication Activities

Provinces	Badakhshan, Badghis, Baghlan, Balkh, Bamyan, Daykundi, Farah, Faryab, Ghazni, Ghor, Hilmand, Hirat, Jawzjan, Kabul, Kandahar, Kapisa, Khost, Kunar, Kunduz, Laghman, Logar, Nangarhar, Nimroz, Nuristan, Paktika, Paktya, Panjsher, Parwan, Samangan, Sari Pul, Takhar, Uruzgan, Wardak, Zabul
Program	Health (Increasing access of women and children to quality basic health services)
Dates	September 2003 - September 2010
Partner	World Health Organization
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is funded to support polio surveillance and supplemental immunization activities throughout Afghanistan.  This will assure certification surveillance (detection, investigation, confirmation, and response to acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), the signal condition for polio) as well as support high quality national immunization campaigns to reach every child under age five with oral polio vaccine(s) as many times as needed to stop the transmission of live polio virus in the country. Afghanistan is one of only four countries in the world with active cases of live polio.  WHO collaborates closely with the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) Department of Expanded Program of Immunizations (EPI) to implement these activities.

 

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