Use of Dedicated Volunteer Community Mobilizers for Polio Eradication Program in Pastoralist, Hard to reach and Bordering part of Ethiopia

Written By Cate Urban

The surveillance intervention in Ethiopia has not adequately involved the community to be part of the surveillance system. The level of community sensitization and eventual detection and reporting of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) cases is minimal. If the level of community awareness is increased, they can be of substantial assist in AFP case and other vaccine preventable diseases detection and reporting, facilitation of stool collection. In Ethiopia active surveillance of AFP has been conducted at community and health facility levels.

CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) Ethiopia is working in partnership with 11 Non-Governmental organizations, covering 85 Districts in five regions, mainly to contribute towards polio eradication efforts of the FMOH in pastoralist, semi pastoralist and hard to reach areas of the country.

Volunteer Community Mobilizers (VCMs) are backbone of the Community Base Surveillance (CBS) and New Born Tracking (NBT) program of CGPP in Ethiopia. VCMs after three days training deploy to carry out activities like pregnant women and new born identification and registration, immunizations defaulter tracing, community education by moving house to house & in community gatherings. Moreover; they are expected to actively search and report cases of AFP/Measles and NNT.

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Use of Dedicated Volunteer Community Mobilizers for Polio Eradication Program in Pastoralist, Hard to reach and Bordering part of Ethiopia

Source: USAID
Year: 2019

Cate Urban

I founded Urban Web Renovations after 11 years of leading global marketing strategies for nonprofit organizations in Washington, DC. In each position I held, one thing remained the same – my passion for managing web sites and social media accounts for both organizations and major thought leaders.

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