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CORE Group Polio Project .community engagement needs to be on the agenda of any public health program from the start and not viewed as a separate objective. In fact, it is the most valued indicator of success. Although India s polio eradication programme began in earnest in 1995, gradually, the community disengaged from the programme as misinformation about the oral polio vaccine (OPV) spread. In states like Uttar Pradesh, vaccinators were met with refusals, sometimes accompanied by physical aggression. This brief article explores what caused this break in communication and how the CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) s social mobilisers delved deep to uncover why communities had become suspicious of government intentions in offering OPV. In it, Roma Solomon argues: How the war against polio in India was won needs to be told so that lessons can be used for other community health interventions.
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Neel, Alonge) Strategies to strengthen planning, promote accountability and learning, adapt programmatic activities, and engage with local communities were crucial in mitigating.barriers. This paper focuses on implementation of polio eradication activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Ethiopia, which are classified by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) as outbreak countries: They have halted indigenous wild poliovirus (WPV) but are experiencing reinfection as a result of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV). With the hope of illuminating key lessons learned that can inform ongoing polio eradication strategy and future health programmes, the paper describes and compares barriers to implementation, implementation strategies, and intended and unintended impacts of the GPEI within and across the 2 countries. This summary focuses on the communication elements highlighted in t