The CORE Group Polio Project: An Overview of Its History and Its Contributions to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

ABSTRACT: The CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) has contributed to polio eradication by successfully engaging civil society, particularly the non-governmental organization (NGO) community. This engagement, which began with a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1999, has contributed to improvements in routine immunization programs, polio campaign quality, and surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis in many challenging geographic areas. The CGPP has worked closely with polio eradication partners in a collaborative and supportive role. The CGPP has focused largely on high-risk areas with marginalized or hard-to-reach populations where health systems and immunization programs have also been weak and where transmission of poliovirus had not been stopped. The CGPP has engaged local

SUBMITTER: Losey L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6776098 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature