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The CORE Group Polio Project: An Overview of Its History and Its Contributions to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

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Losey, Lee, Ogden, Ellyn, Bisrat, Filimona, Solomon, Roma, Newberry, David, Coates, Ellen, Ward, Dora, Hilmi, Lisa +3 more·2019·The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
DOI 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0916PMC PMC6776098
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The CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) has contributed to polio eradication by successfully engaging civil society, particularly the non-governmental organization (NGO) community. This engagement, which began with a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1999, has contributed to improvements in routine immunization programs, polio campaign quality, and surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis in many challenging geographic areas. The CGPP has worked closely with polio eradication partners in a collaborative and supportive role. The CGPP has 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 had not been stopped. The CGPP has engaged local civic leaders and communities in ways to complement top-down vertical efforts of ministries of health and other partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The CGPP has developed innovative strategies to detect cases using community-based surveillance, promoted independent campaign monitoring, established cross-border initiatives, and developed a strong and creative cadre of community mobilizers to track missed children and deliver behavior change education. Many of the innovations and approaches that the CGPP helped to develop are now being replicated by governments and international agencies to tackle other public health priorities in underserved and marginalized communities around the world. This article is the first in a series of articles describing the work of the CGPP. Because the article describes the work of more than 40 NGOs in 11 countries over 20 years, it provides only an overview, leaving many important details and variations of the CGPP's work to be described elsewhere, including in other articles included in this series.

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  • The CORE Group Polio Project coordinated efforts of international and local national NGOs to engage communities and deploy CHWs at scale in 11 countries to address urgent needs in eradicating polio, strengthening immunization programmes more broadly, and responding to community priorities for maternal and child health.

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  1. 2018, The CORE Group
  2. 2017, About CORE Group: Who We Are
  3. 2019, Polio-Free Countries
  4. Storms, 2009, Final Review of the CORE Group Partners Polio Eradication Initiative, 1999–2008
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  6. Stamidis, 2018, CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) Final Evaluation Report 2017
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Authors
Losey, L., Ogden, E., Bisrat, F., Solomon, R., Newberry, D., Coates, E., Ward, D., Hilmi, L., LeBan, K., Burrowes, V., & Perry, H. B.
Affiliations
  • CORE Group Polio Project, Washington, District of Columbia;
  • United States Agency for International Development (US)
  • CORE Group Polio Project/Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;
  • CORE Group Polio Project/India, Gurgaon, India;
  • CORE Group, Washington, District of Columbia;
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
Corresponding author
Perry, Henry B.
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Venue
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Publisher
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Published
2019-10-03
Volume
101
Issue
4_Suppl
Pages
4-14
ISSN
  • 0002-9637 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-1645
DOI
10.4269/ajtmh.18-0916
PMC
PMC6776098
OpenAlex
W2978131991
Semantic Scholar
1d2042fe49475b871345d4e54dd19e84678280c8
Cited by
28
References
13
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 11
FWCI
4.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Medicine and Tropical Health
Keywords
polio eradication, Global Polio Eradication Initiative, non-governmental organizations, civil society participation, community-based surveillance, acute flaccid paralysis surveillance, routine immunization, marginalized communities, hard-to-reach populations
MeSH terms
Child, Humans, Poliomyelitis, Global Health, World Health Organization, History, 20th Century, Disease Eradication

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