Presentation

Interrupting Transmission of Vaccine Derived Poliovirus Using Community Volunteers

• Collaboration between Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Community-Based structures like religious leaders, traditional leaders, women groups, etc. have reduced vaccine hesitancy and increased uptake for vaccines against vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs)
• Working with Community-Based Structures, CSOs have improved Surveillance for infectious diseases like Poliomyelitis (Acute Flaccid Paralysis) and have shown capacity for many other infectious diseases like COVID-19 etc.
• CSOs have shown that Community-Based Structures can be used to deliver critical health messages that can lead to important behavior change with resultant increase in vaccine uptake
• With adequate training, Community-Based Structures can be effectively used to prevent, detect and respond to all types of emerging infectious diseases.