| Reporting Organization: | WHO - World Health Organization |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 20,000,000 |
| Timeframe: | March 28, 2014 - March 31, 2015 |
| Status: | Completion |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
WHO - World Health Organization
| Sub-Saharan Africa - $ 8,814,000.00 (44.07%) | |
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| Southeast Asia - $ 3,332,000.00 (16.66%) | |
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| South Asia - $ 2,726,000.00 (13.63%) | |
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| East Asia - $ 2,424,000.00 (12.12%) | |
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| Central Asia - $ 1,516,000.00 (7.58%) | |
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| North Africa - $ 1,186,000.00 (5.93%) | |
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This project contributes to eradicating polio throughout the world. It supports the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan for 2014. This plan provides a roadmap to complete the eradication of polio disease within a five-year timeline. It outlines a clear approach for stopping the transmission of the polio virus, eradicating the polio virus in the remaining three polio-endemic countries (countries where the wild polio virus is present; Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan), and managing polio virus risks in the future. The plan also outlines an approach to ensure that the knowledge, capacities, and processes developed for polio immunization are used to address other public health challenges as the Global Polio Eradication Initiative comes to an end. DFATD’s funding, together with funding from other donors, contributes to the following activities: strengthening surveillance to detect movement of the virus; strengthening routine immunization; training front-line staff; improving the capacity to detect and interrupt the transmission of the polio virus in polio-endemic countries and high-risk regions; and supporting the transfer of polio immunization assets and infrastructure to other global health initiatives.
| Gender and age: | Unspecified |
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| Total Direct Population: | Unspecified |
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Return to topThe expected results for this project include: (1) increased capacity of national governments to respond to polio virus outbreaks; (2) strengthened monitoring and surveillance systems in place, particularly in endemic countries; (3) strengthened delivery of immunizations to children under the age of five in endemic and high-risk areas; (4) cessation of polio virus in countries with re-established transmission; and (5) introduction of inactive polio vaccine (IPV) in identified countries.
