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Polio Eradication Initiative Best Practices in the WHO African Region: 14 Articles from "Vaccine"

Friday, 7th of October 2016

Polio Eradication Initiative Best Practices in the WHO African Region

This special issue of Vaccine is devoted to the eradication of polio from the 47 member states of the WHO African region. See below the listing of individual articles and weblinks to each.

Good reading.

BD

 

Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Vaccine, Volume 34, Issue 43, Pages 5141-5208 (10 October 2016)

Polio Eradication Initiative Best Practices in the WHO African Region

Edited by Joseph Okeibunor, Bartholomew Dicky Akanmori, Richard Mihigo and Pascal Mkanda

o    Introduction

1.  
   • Joseph Okeibunor, Bartholomew Dicky Akanmori, Richard Mihigo, Pascal Mkanda

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6433

 

o    Winning the battle against the scourge of poliomyelitis in the African Region

1.  
   • Matshidiso Moeti

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6420

Highlights

•Polio was a major public health challenge in Africa.

•Some progress have been made in interrupting transmission.

•A number of innovative and old but improved practices were engaged.

•These practices could be deployed to other health interventions.

o    Documentation of polio eradication initiative best practices: Experience from WHO African Region

 

1.  
   • Joseph Okeibunor, Deo Nshimirimana, Peter Nsubuga, Evariste Mutabaruka, Leonard Tapsoba, Emmanuel Ghali, Shaikh Humayun Kabir, Alex Gassasira, Richard Mihigo, Pascal Mkanda

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6427

 

Highlights

•PEI generated tremendous amount of manpower with diverse public health skills.

•PEI put systems in place to accelerate the eradication of polio in the Region.

•Innovations were developed and applied in target delivery of polio vaccines.

•PEI accumulated lessons and best practices that will benefit larger public health.

•A protocol developed to document the best practices is presented here.

o    The contribution of the polio eradication initiative to narrowing the gaps in the health workforce in the African Region

 

1.  
   • Jean Kamso, Eddy S. Mvika, M.O.C. Ota, Joseph Okeibunor, Pascal Mkanda, Richard Mihigo

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6421

 

Highlights

•A major challenge of health care delivery in Africa is gap in workforce.

•Investments for polio eradication tackled this problem.

•Polio eradication manpower helped to address the shortage of health workforce.

o    Reaching the unreached with polio vaccine and other child survival interventions through partnership with military in Angola

 

1.  
   • Lemma Fekadu, Joseph Okeibunor, Peter Nsubuga, Jean Marie Kipela, Pascal Mkanda, Richard Mihigo

 

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6255

 

Highlights

•Conflict played major role in precipitating polio outbreaks in the Horn of Africa.

•These led to rapid population movements and inaccessibility for vaccination.

•The PEI in Angola devised strategies for vaccinating inaccessible populations.

•The paper documents these strategies and their effectiveness.

o    Enhancing transit polio vaccination in collaboration with targeted stakeholders in Kaduna State, Nigeria: Lessons learnt: 2014–2015

 

1.  
   • Audu Musa, Bashir Abba, Adamu M.I. Ningi, Emanuel Gali, Samuel Bawa, Fadninding Manneh, Pascal Mkanda, Richard Banda, Yared G. Yehuluashet, Sisay G. Tegegne, Gregory Umeh, Peter Nsubuga, Andrew Etsano, Faisal Shuaib, Ado Mohammed, Rui G. Vaz

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6425

 

Highlights

•Many children are often missed by vaccination team due to population movements.

•Transit vaccination proved a very useful approach to targeting these children.

•Engagement of stakeholders enhanced transit polio vaccination in Kaduna.

o    Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) contribution in strengthening public health laboratories systems in the African region

 

1.  
   • Nicksy Gumede, Sheick Oumar Coulibaly, Ali Ahmed Yahaya, Jean-Bosco Ndihokubwayo, Peter Nsubuga, Joseph Okeibunor, Annick Dosseh, Mbaye Salla, Richard Mihigo, Pascal Mkanda, Charles Byabamazima

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6432

 

Highlights

•Efficient laboratories are key to the success of any disease programme.

•PEI resources have contributed efforts in strengthening laboratory capacity in the region.

•These contributions have not been systematically documented as lesson learnt.

•With PEI programme on the ramp down, this paper documents it contributions for posterity.

o    Polio Eradication Initiative: Contribution to improved communicable diseases surveillance in WHO African region

1.  
   • William Mwengee, Joseph Okeibunor, Alain Poy, Keith Shaba, Leon Mbulu Kinuani, Etienne Minkoulou, Ali Yahaya, Peter Gaturuku, Dadja Essoya Landoh, Peter Nsubuga, Mbaye Salla, Richard Mihigo, Pascal Mkanda

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6428

 

Highlights

•PEI supported implementation of surveillance for other priority communicable diseases.

•PEI resources and infrastructure can be used as one strategy to build IDSR in Africa.

•Other disease-specific programs with eradication goals might consider investing IDSR.

o    Polio infrastructure strengthened disease outbreak preparedness and response in the WHO African Region

 

1.  
   • Koffi Kouadio, Joseph Okeibunor, Peter Nsubuga, Richard Mihigo, Pascal Mkanda

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6430

 

Highlights

•PEI resources are often deployed in response outbreaks of public health emergencies.

•These PEI contributions to disease outbreaks response have not been documented.

•The systematic documentation will enhance preparedness for outbreak response.

o    Polio Eradication Initiative contribution in strengthening immunization and integrated disease surveillance data management in WHO African region, 2014

 

1.  
   • Alain Poy, Etienne Minkoulou, Keith Shaba, Ali Yahaya, Peter Gaturuku, Landoh Dadja, Joseph Okeibunor, Richard Mihigo, Pascal Mkanda

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6429

 

Highlights

•GPEI made investments on data management in the eradication in polio in the Region.

•Impact of polio data management support to other programmes is not fully documented.

•Polio data management system were also used for other interventions.

•IDSR has improved the data availability with support from Polio funded data managers.

o    Contribution of polio eradication initiative to strengthening routine immunization: Lessons learnt in the WHO African region

 

1.  
   • Blanche-Philomene Melanga Anya, Edna Moturi, Teka Aschalew, Mable Carole Tevi-Benissan, Bartholomew Dicky Akanmori, Alain Nyembo Poy, Kinuam Leon Mbulu, Joseph Okeibunor, Richard Mihigo, Felicitas Zawaira

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6424

Highlights

•Routine immunization (RI) is a key pillar of polio eradication.

•Strengthening RI is thus critical to accelerating polio eradication in the African region.

•The paper documents practical areas PEI infrastructure has improved RI in Africa.

o    Contribution of polio eradication initiative to effective new vaccine introduction in Africa, 2010–2015

 

1.  
   • Mable Carole Tevi-Benissan, Edna Moturi, Blanche-Philomene Melanga Anya, Teka Aschalew, Akanmori Barthlomew Dicky, Poy Alain Nyembo, Leon Kinuam Mbulu, Joseph Okeibunor, Richard Mihigo, Felicitas Zawaira

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6307

Highlights

•Significant progress has been made to increase access to vaccines in Africa.

•PEI activities facilitated the noticeable progress in improving access to vaccines.

•PEI availed immunization with resources for new vaccine introduction.

 

o    Experience of integrating vitamin A supplementation into polio campaigns in the African Region

1.  
   • Elizabeth Tangel Chehab, Blanche-Philomene Melanga Anya, Adelheid Werimo Onyango, Mable Carole Tevi-Benissan, Joseph Okeibunor, Pascal Mkanda, Richard Mihigo

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6423

Highlights

•Vitamin A deficiency in children constitutes a challenge to public health the African Region.

•PEI provided a platform for integrated delivery of vitamin A in the African Region.

•The lessons and experiences were captured in this paper.

 

o    Coordination as a best practice from the polio eradication initiative: Experiences from five member states in the African region of the World Health Organization

1.  
   • Joseph Okeibunor, Peter Nsubuga, Mbaye Salla, Richard Mihigo, Pascal Mkanda

 

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=6422

Highlights

•Structures were put in place to ensure coordinated mobilization of resources for PEI.

•With the recorded successes, the structures became attractive to other public health interventions.

•The PEI structures were deployed to respond to other diseases interventions.

•This paper documents the structure for more systematic deployment for future public health interventions.