Editorial Note
In this issue, two newsletters, a monthly report and eight vacancies.
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Are you a communication and social mobilization expert? Are you interested in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) and the goal of eradicating Polio by 2012? Help UNICEF accelerate its response to the intensified polio eradication activities.
List of vacancies:
- Programme Communication Specialist (Polio), P-4, Angola, 16-Jul-10
- Programme Communication Specialist (Polio), P3, Sudan, 16-Jul-10
- Programme Communication Specialist (Polio), P4, South Asia, 16-Jul-10
- Programme Communication Specialist (Polio), P4, Amman, Jordan, 16-Jul-10
- Programme Communication Specialist (Polio), P4, NY-HQ, 16-Jul-10
- Programme Communication Specialist (Polio), P3, Afghanistan, 16-Jul-10
- Programme Communication Specialist (Polio), P3, Ndjamena, Chad, 16-Jul-10
- Programme Communication Specialist (Polio), P4, DR, 16-Jul-10
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This issue includes updates from the recently concluded Fourth Annual Global Meeting on Implementing New & Under-Utilized Vaccines (NUVI), launches of a new Meningoccal A Conjugate Vaccine and a new Vaccine Information Management System, new recommendations on routine polio immunization in addition to the regular new meetings and events and the regional news coverage.
Please send any information you would like included in the next issue to sparrowe@who.int by Wednesday 21 July 2010.
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Funding gap threatens: While stakeholders fully endorsed the range of approaches and new tools in the new strategic plan–which are already showing positive results–a $1.3 billion funding gap is forcing a reprioritization of further planned activities to respond to the outbreaks in west Africa. Demand for oral polio vaccine (OPV) has recently gone up ... This demand has absorbed much of the flexible funding held for emergencies. While additional funds are expected later in the third quarter, activities planned for July and August in particular may require some adjustments. Decisions to delay or curtail some activities are being made based on epidemiology, protecting activities in highest-risk areas (endemic countries and those with re-established transmission). Details
Tajikistan conducts multiple immunization rounds to rapidly raise immunity: Tajikistan has held four short-interval rounds of polio vaccination activities to rapidly raise childhood immunity in response to an outbreak now totalling 334 polio cases (data with WHO headquarters as of 29 June). The size of the outbreak means that Tajikistan accounts for more than 70% of all polio cases in the world this year. The Tajikistan experience reaffirms the imperative of completing polio eradication: until polio is eradicated, any country is at risk of an importation, and high population immunity is the only protection against a large outbreak.
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This issue of Polio Pipeline gives an overview (of the role) research has played in informing and finalizing the new Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Strategic Plan 2010-2012, which was endorsed by the World Health Assembly in May. An accelerated research agenda helped to develop and evaluate a range of new tools and approaches to tackle the ... barriers to eradication in the remaining endemic areas, and facilitate (a) more thorough outbreak response. ... in this issue, you will find overviews of the programmatic benefits of the new bivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV), new ways to identify programmatic gaps and provide a clearer epidemiological picture, and the role of mathematical modelling in identifying countries/areas at particular risk of outbreaks.
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