Details - Public Health Image Library(PHIL)

ID#:

8010

Caption:

As team members of the STOP Transmission of Polio (STOP) initiative, this 2000 photograph depicted a number of female Indian health care workers gathering together prior to immunizing local residents with polio vaccine. Since its inception in the fall of 1998, the STOP teams have worked in over 50 countries. In the first years of the program, most STOP team members worked primarily to bolster acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance, support national immunization days, and conduct polio case investigation and follow-up. STOP team members are recruited and trained primarily by CDC, however, once on assignment, they are under the supervision of either WHO, or UNICEF.