POLIO [to 6 September 2014]

GPEI Update: Polio this week – As of 3 September 2014
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Editor’s Excerpt and text bolding
Full report: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx
:: Protecting west Africa: Even as polio programme staff across west Africa support efforts to control the Ebola outbreak affecting the region, preparations are going ahead for large scale multi-country vaccination campaigns in those countries not affected by Ebola, in mid-September.
:: In Nigeria, inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) has been used in early August during supplementary immunization activities in Borno and Yobe, reaching 0.6 million children. Further campaigns will integrate IPV, aiming to reach more than a million children by April 2015.
:: Polio vaccination activities have resumed in parts of Helmand Province in the Southern Region of Afghanistan for the first time in five months. Upcoming immunization campaigns in September will cover the entire province.
Pakistan
:: Two new circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2) cases were reported in the past week. One was in the Lakki Marwat district with onset of paralysis on 8 May and the other in Bannu district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 3 May. The country has reported 18 cases of cVDPV2 in 2014 and the most recent case had onset of paralysis on 27 May in FR Bannu, FATA.
West Africa
:: Even as polio programme staff across West Africa support efforts to control the Ebola outbreak affecting the region, preparations are going ahead for large scale multi-country vaccination campaigns in those countries not affected by Ebola, in mid-September.
:: A trivalent OPV campaign is planned for the entire region, in Mali on 19-22 September and in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Togo on 20-23 September.