UNICEF STEPS UP EFFORTS TO STOP POLIO OUTBREAK IN SOMALIA WITH HELP OF JAPANESE GRANT

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UNICEF STEPS UP EFFORTS TO STOP POLIO OUTBREAK IN SOMALIA WITH HELP OF
JAPANESE GRANTNew York, Aug 5 2013 4:00PMAn emergency contribution
from Japan will enable the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and
its partners to tackle a polio outbreak in Somalia that has already
paralyzed nearly 100 children and threatens hundreds of thousands more
who are not vaccinated.

UNICEF <"http://www.unicef.org/media/media_70084.html">said it will be
able to procure and distribute urgently needed polio vaccines, and
prevent the further spread of the virus across the Horn of Africa
nation and into neighbouring countries with the $1.3 million provided
by the Japanese Government.

"Lack of access to routine immunization in Somalia has created the
largest known reservoir of unvaccinated children in a single
geographic area in the world. The total number of Somali children who
had never been vaccinated between 2008 and 2012 was estimated to reach
a million," says Sikander Khan, UNICEF Somalia Representative.

"The poliovirus in such a large reservoir has the potential to result
in a catastrophic outbreak, the likes of which are beginning to be
seen and as such constitutes an international emergency," he added in
a news release.

In May, a two-year-old girl from the capital, Mogadishu, became the
first confirmed case of polio in Somalia in more than six years. The
country had been polio-free since March 2007.

As of July, the virus has paralyzed 95 Somali children: 94 confirmed
cases in South Central Zone, which includes Mogadishu, and a case in
Somaliland. Another nine cases have also been reported in the Dadaab
camp in Kenya – the largest refugee complex in the world.

With the help of UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO),
Somali communities have launched emergency vaccination campaigns to
boost their low polio vaccination coverage. The country currently has
the second lowest coverage in the world at 47 per cent, after
Equatorial Guinea.

So far, polio vaccines were prepared for six immunization campaigns
between May and August, and five rounds have already been carried out.
However, vaccines for additional campaigns between September and
December have not yet been secured.

More than 2.8 million children under the age of 10 are expected to
benefit from Japan's contribution, which will cover more than 5
million doses of oral polio vaccines for two rounds of immunization
activities in the coming months.

UNICEF has been working to support partners and local communities to
minimize the scale of this outbreak. However, it warned that frequent
movement of people within and between Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and
South Sudan could transport the virus further from Somalia to the
entire Horn of Africa.

Before the new outbreak, the worldwide number of polio cases had
decreased by more than 99 per cent from 350,000 in 1988 to 223 cases
in 2012 with active cases reported in only three endemic countries:
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria.

"The outbreak in Somalia, if not controlled quickly, could jeopardize
global efforts to wipe out polio once and for all," UNICEF warned.Aug
5 2013 4:00PM
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