Physical Health Uganda Project #57333

One Day. One Focus: Ending Polio 24 October

by Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda

One Day. One Focus: Ending Polio 24 October

Project Report | Oct 9, 2023
For a million reasons, thank you for your support

By James Aleko | Project Director

Dear Friend,

Thank you for your generous gift to Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda. We are thrilled to have your support. Through your donation we have been able to carry on vaccination for babies in 3 different communities in the period of the past 09month of the year 2023. You truly make the difference for us, and we are extremely grateful!

Today we celebrate what your donation has done to the lives of the children. If you have specific questions about how your gift is being used or our organization as whole, please don’t hesitate to contact our organization team through cicouganda940@gmail.com.

Thank you for your financial support to One Day. One Focus: Ending Polio 24 October in the months of October, 2022. It really came as a blessing to our organization.

Thank you for donating your hard-earned money to us. We are amazed by what a big-hearted person you are and how much you care about others.

Your donation is really important to us, and we are forever grateful for it.

Thank you!

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Jun 22, 2023
Thank you for your Heart of Rescue

By James Aleko | Project Director

Thank you for your support and generosity in supporting our health intervention to vulnerable children and their communities.

With your generosity entrusted to us as an organization in support against Polio vaccination campaign by Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda was a three-day campaign in the month of April 2023. Aimed at reaching out to all children below the age of five. The target was to immunize over 200 children and also reach out to those who missed routine immunization. The exercise started on the 14th of April, 2023, and ended on the 16th which was a Sunday.

On the 17th of February 2023, the ministry of health declared Polio a Public Health Emergency in Uganda. This followed the positive laboratory tests from environmental samples in Kampala that confirmed Poliovirus Type 2. The World Health Organization certified Uganda and Africa as wild-Polio virus-free in August 2020. Transmitted from person to person or through contaminated water or food and multiplies inside the intestines. The virus spends through stool from an unvaccinated child which can cause sore throat, fever, tiredness, stomach ache, and paralysis.

The delivery of essential health services including routine immunization was affected extensively. Children immunized against vaccine-preventable diseases were fewer. This slowdown leads to the rebirth of Polio globally, including in Uganda. By the end of August, the Ministry of Health said that up to two million children had missed out on the Polio Vaccination.

The ministry of health brought it to itself to conduct a nationwide Polio immunization campaign in October and December 2023. During which the health workers were to visit house to house. To vaccinate children under the age of 5 years against Polio. To ensure children are safely vaccinated without the risk of getting affected.

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Feb 27, 2023
Preventative Polio immunization campaign

By James Aleko | Project Director

24 October

Cico Uganda (80) with support from the GlobalGiving donations conducted a three-day preventative house-to-house polio immunization campaign reaching 420 children below the age of five in Bukedea districts in Uganda.

The campaign was done to vaccinate all children under five years of age whether previously immunized or not, with Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) drops in the mouth, and achieve at least 95% coverage for vaccination in the selected districts.
The campaign covered 3 high-risk parishes including Moru apesur, omeneik and karere parishes. The districts parishes were selected based on the low routine immunization uptake, suboptimal polio surveillance indicators. The campaign also provided an opportunity to sensitize communities on Acute Flaccid Paralysis surveillance and at the same time identify and investigate any unreported suspected cases of polio.

The Community Development Officer/ Routine immunization at Cico Uganda (80) highlighted the importance of the immunization exercise and said it was important to prevent the occurrence of a polio outbreak in the country. He also added that extra focus was put on the hard to reach populations to ensure they were not left out. “Previously, there was low immunization coverage on the lake shore areas and islands, but we are ensuring that this is addressed and no one is left out”, she said.
She added that this was a supplemental campaign, and did not replace the routine immunization schedule.

During the house-to-house campaign, the vaccination team comprising of one health worker, one Local Council (LC1) or Village Health Team member moved door to door to administer the Polio vaccine which was given by putting two drops in the child’s mouth.
During the support supervision exercise, Cico Uganda (80) staff observed that some districts had fewer vaccines allocated than the district population. This was as a result of providing vaccines to homes that were outside their boundaries, an issue the Ministry of Health committed to addressing.
Further to this, there were pockets of resistance to the campaign due to cultural and religious beliefs in some districts, but with the assistance from the local council leadership and police as well as sensitization, the resistance was resolved and children were vaccinated. This was a result of sub optimal social mobilization prior to the exercise more so in the rural centres.

This preventive vaccination campaign was worth 3,000, 000 Uganda shillings and was supported with funds from Government of Uganda, GlobalGiving donations and Cico Uganda Support funding.

The effort to eradicate polio internationally is spearheaded by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a public-private partnership led by national governments with five partners – the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Since its formation in 1988, the partnership has prevented over 16 million cases of polio paralysis. The last imported polio case in Uganda was in November 2010 in eastern Uganda.

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