PMID- 36157558
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220928
LR  - 20220928
IS  - 1937-8688 (Electronic)
VI  - 40
IP  - Suppl 1
DP  - 2021
TI  - National Stop Transmission of Polio Program support for polio supplemental 
      immunization activities in Nigeria 2012-2016: deployment of management support 
      team.
PG  - 14
LID - 10.11604/pamj.supp.2022.40.1.32562 [doi]
LID - 14
AB  - INTRODUCTION: to support polio eradication activities in Nigeria, in 2012 the 
      National Polio Emergency Operation Center (NEOC) created the Management Support 
      Teams (MST) to address gaps in the quality of supervision of polio vaccination 
      teams. The National Stop Transmission of Polio (NSTOP) Program supported the 
      polio eradication activities by deploying trained supervisors as part of the MST 
      for polio and non-polio immunization campaigns. METHODS: trained MST members were 
      deployed approximately 4 days before the start of the campaign to participate in 
      pre-implementation activities and supervise vaccination teams during campaigns. 
      Terms of reference (TOR) developed by NEOC was provided to MST members to guide 
      their activities. Qualified MSTs that met pre-determined criteria were selected 
      and deployed to the field to support pre, intra and post campaigns activities. 
      RESULTS: a pool of over 400 MST personnel have been identified, trained, and 
      repeatedly deployed from 2012 till 2016. The number of deployed MST personnel 
      rose from 40 per campaign in October 2012 to 342 in May 2016. Of these, 270 (79%) 
      MST personnel were deployed to 11 polio high-risk states of northern Nigeria, 
      where campaigns are conducted between eight and ten times yearly as planned by 
      NEOC. For measles campaigns, about 300 (75%) MST personnel were deployed for the 
      one-off northern and southern campaigns in 2016. The results of clustered Lot 
      Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) post-campaign vaccination coverage surveys, a 
      measure of campaign quality, of which introduction into the polio program 
      coincided with deployment of MSTs, showed improvement over time, from 10% (very 
      poor quality) in February 2012 to about 90% (good quality) in December 2016. 
      CONCLUSION: the deployment of MST personnel increased the number of trained 
      supervisors in the field, frequency of supervisory visits and had a positive 
      impact on the quality of polio campaigns.
CI  - (c)Aboyowa Arayuwa Edukugho et al.
FAU - Edukugho, Aboyowa Arayuwa
AU  - Edukugho AA
AD  - African Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Waziri, Ndadilnasiya Endie
AU  - Waziri NE
AD  - African Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Bolu, Omotayo
AU  - Bolu O
AD  - US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Gidado, Saheed Oluwatoyin
AU  - Gidado SO
AD  - African Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Okeke, Lilian Akudo
AU  - Okeke LA
AD  - African Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Uba, Belinda Vernyuy
AU  - Uba BV
AD  - African Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Idris, Jibrin Manu
AU  - Idris JM
AD  - African Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Michael, Charles Akataobi
AU  - Michael CA
AD  - African Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Adegoke, Joel Oluwasegun
AU  - Adegoke JO
AD  - African Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Bammeke, Philip
AU  - Bammeke P
AD  - African Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Adamu, Usman Saidu
AU  - Adamu US
AD  - National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Nguku, Patrick Mboya
AU  - Nguku PM
AD  - African Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
FAU - Biya, Oladayo
AU  - Biya O
AD  - Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Immunization Division, Atlanta.
FAU - Ohuanbunwo, Chima John
AU  - Ohuanbunwo CJ
AD  - Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Immunization Division, Atlanta.
FAU - Vertefeuille, John
AU  - Vertefeuille J
AD  - Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Immunization Division, Atlanta.
FAU - Damisa, Eunice
AU  - Damisa E
AD  - Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Immunization Division, Atlanta.
FAU - Wiesen, Eric
AU  - Wiesen E
AD  - Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Immunization Division, Atlanta.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220228
PL  - Uganda
TA  - Pan Afr Med J
JT  - The Pan African medical journal
JID - 101517926
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Immunization Programs
MH  - Lot Quality Assurance Sampling
MH  - *Measles
MH  - Nigeria
MH  - *Poliomyelitis/prevention & control
MH  - Vaccination
PMC - PMC9475051
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - MST
OT  - NEOC
OT  - NSTOP
OT  - polio
OT  - supervision
COIS- The authors declare no competing interests.
EDAT- 2022/09/27 06:00
MHDA- 2022/09/28 06:00
PMCR- 2022/02/28
CRDT- 2022/09/26 17:10
PHST- 2021/11/24 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/02/07 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/09/26 17:10 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/09/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/09/28 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/02/28 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - PAMJ-SUPP-40-1-14 [pii]
AID - 10.11604/pamj.supp.2022.40.1.32562 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Pan Afr Med J. 2022 Feb 28;40(Suppl 1):14. doi: 
      10.11604/pamj.supp.2022.40.1.32562. eCollection 2021.