Gabon

Status: imported poliovirus

Gabon 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

• March (28-30) 2011
• February (22) 2011
• January (27) 2011