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The CGPP has effectively applied multi-pronged approaches to vaccinate children in hard to reach and conflict-affected areas in the Horn of Africa, including Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Ethiopia. Successful interventions include permanent vaccination posts along borders of conflict zones, tracking of nomadic population movements, cross-border synchronization during immunization rounds and social mapping of border crossing points.

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (AJTMH) released the publication of a special series of 14 articles chronicling the CORE Group Polio Project’s (CGPP) multiple contributions to improving community health in extremely difficult contexts by working to eradicate polio, improve immunization uptake, promote healthy household behaviors for mothers and children, and increase disease detection.The supplement may be accessed here. The AJTMH is a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal published by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

The supplement addresses the CGPP’s unique model of community engagement and the concrete strategies that have focused largely on high-risk areas with marginalized or hard-to-reach populations where health systems and immunization programs have also been weak, and where transmission of poliovirus has not been stopped or where the risk of recurrent transmission is high, and where resistance to the polio campaign has been encountered.

This protocol provides guidance to CGP-GHS Project staff on how to ensure the health and safety of community health volunteers (CHVs) and the unintentional spread of COVID-19 in the community. The need to conduct community-based surveillance and health promotion needs to be weighed against the risk of endangering either CHVs or community members while conducting house-to-house surveillance and health education and promotion activities.