Booth: 35

The CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) is a multi-country, multi-partner initiative providing financial and technical support for strengthening host country efforts to eradicate polio, strengthen surveillance of zoonotic diseases, and control the spread of COVID-19. For over 20 years, this USAID flagship project, which initially only focused on polio eradication, has since used its infrastructure to expand to include the Global Health Security Agenda and COVID-19. CGPP’s main priority continues to be eradicating global polio through strengthening polio vaccination uptake, improving quality of campaigns and routine vaccination, surveilling acute flaccid paralysis, and fostering polio partnerships at all levels through civil societies and community networks that predominantly rely on female community health workers. In addition, the project strengthens both surveillance for infectious diseases that are threats to both humans and animals as well as COVID-19 prevention, through COVID vaccination services integrated within polio platforms.