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Coast-to-coast polio drive to counter epidemic in Africa
22-nation synchronized immunization campaign to reach 100 million children as virus spreads to Ethiopia - A mass polio
immunization drive starting today across Africa gained greater urgency from reports that a child has contracted polio in
Ethiopia, the first case there in four years.
The cross-continental drive - spanning 22 countries and reaching 100 million children - is the first in a series of 2005
campaigns to stamp out polio in Africa, which saw a fierce resurgence last year endangering global eradication efforts. With
polio now in its low-transmission season, the next few months are critical to stopping the virus.
Countries joining the campaigns this round include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Eritrea on the southern and
eastern edges of the epidemic. In the west, Côte d'Ivoire is rejoining the effort for the first time since civil unrest
halted activities last November, causing months of concern after the country was re-infected early on in the regional
epidemic.
"By reaching children cut off from the eradication effort by insecurity and the threat of violence African leaders have a
real opportunity to halt polio's advance," said Dr. Ezio Murzi, UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa.
On the other side of the continent, Sudanese health officials in the wake of the Nairobi peace accord are cooperating to
immunize children in both the north and south. Next door, Ethiopia is concentrating on activities along its northern and
western borders, where the new case was found. Sudan convened earlier this month nine neighbouring countries to discuss
cross-border immunization coordination.
In a reminder of the ease with which the virus travels, two recent cases in Saudi Arabia appear to be related to virus
originating in Nigeria and entering via Sudan. Nigeria accounts for over 60% of cases worldwide.
"Eradication in Africa requires not only reaching all children in the newly-infected areas, but most importantly immunizing
every child in those countries which have never interrupted transmission - Nigeria and Niger," said WHO Regional Director for
Africa Dr Luis Sambo. "It is gratifying to note that both countries are fully committed to the polio eradication drive."
Health officials say that progress made since the first response to the outbreak in Africa - massive co-ordinated
immunization campaigns in October and November 2004 - has been positive but fragile. Success in the second phase of this
intensified eradication effort, coupled with improved access to routine immunization, is critical to stopping the epidemic.
To finance the 2005 immunization rounds, US$ 75 million is needed by July; some US$ 200 million will be required in 2006.
African leaders have re-doubled their commitment in the face of the epidemic, as evidenced in recent declarations at the
African Union summit by the AU's top leadership. "Polio eradication has the unswerving commitment of all Africans - from
leaders to parents and children themselves," said Marie-Irene Richmond-Ahoua, Rotary's National PolioPlus Chair for Cộte
d'Ivoire. Since 1985, Rotary members have contributed countless volunteer hours and more than US$ 500 million to the polio
eradication effort.
Vaccinators will be delivering vitamin A drops with the polio vaccine in many places - an immunity-boosting strategy that has
saved an estimated 1.2 million lives over 12 years. Further mass polio vaccination campaigns in Africa are scheduled for
April and May and again late in the year.
Notes to editors
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is spearheaded by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, the US Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF.
The poliovirus is now endemic in six countries - Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Niger, Afghanistan and Egypt - down from over 125
when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988. Polio is spread by faecal-oral contact and can be
prevented by an oral vaccine.
The polio eradication coalition includes governments of countries affected by polio; private sector foundations (e.g. United
Nations Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation); development banks (e.g. the World Bank); donor governments (e.g.
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the
United States of America); the European Commission; humanitarian and nongovernmental organizations (e.g. the International
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies) and corporate partners (e.g. Sanofi Pasteur, De Beers, Wyeth). Volunteers in developing
countries also play a key role; 20 million have participated in mass immunization campaigns.
For more information contact:
Mr Oliver Rosenbauer
WHO/Geneva
Telephone: +41 22 791 3832
Mobile phone: +41 79 500 6530
E-mail: rosenbauero@who.int
Ms Vivian Fiore
Rotary International
Telephone: +1 847 866 3234
Mobile phone: +34 67 647 2758
E-mail: fiorev@rotaryintl.org
Steven Stewart
CDC
Telephone: +1 404 639 8327
E-mail: znc4@cdc.gov
Claire Hajaj
UNICEF
Telephone: +1 212 326 7566
E-mail: chajaj@unicef.org
Joint News Release WHO/Rotary International/CDC/UNICEF
Coasta de-la-polio coasta de unitate pentru a contracara epidemie în Africa - Coast-to-coast polio drive to counter epidemic in Africa - articole medicale engleza - startsanatate