Central African Republic

Status: imported poliovirus

Central African Republic is one of the countries in the “wild poliovirus importation belt” – a band of countries stretching from west Africa to central Africa and the Horn of Africa, which are recurrently re-infected with poliovirus originating from northern Nigeria. The immediate priority is to stop all active outbreaks using mop-up campaigns with monovalent oral polio vaccine in the infected areas, combined with a series of large-scale, synchronized supplementary immunization activities across most of the “importation belt” countries to protect against further importations.

Strategy

Global Polio Eradication Initiative Strategic Plan 2010–2012

Polio campaign monitoring

Polio this week in Chad and Central African Republic

No new WPV cases were reported in the past week. The most recent WPV case had onset of paralysis on 14 June 2012 (WPV1 from Lac).
No new cVDPV2 cases were reported in the past week. The total number of cVDPV2 cases for 2013 remains one (onset of paralysis on 4 February from Salamat).
The most recent subnational immunization days (SNIDs) were conducted on 26-29 April, to be followed by further SNIDs on 24-27 May and a nationwide activity in June, all with trivalent OPV.