World Health Organization (WHO)

Polio Surveillance and Response

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Date of Operation: 2007 – 2012

Primary Implementing Partner: World Health Organization (WHO)

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Assist Ethiopia in reaching certification level for polio eradication.

Project Objectives:

  • Achieve certification standards of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance at national and intermediary levels
  • Assist with the timely response to any importation of the wild polio virus
  • Continue implementing immunization campaigns to strengthen active and passive surveillance systems within the country

Description:

TB CARE I

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Date of Operation: 2010 – 2015

Primary Implementing Partner: Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association (KNCV)

Other Implementing Partners: World Health Organization (WHO), Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Improve case detection and treatment success rates of TB in Ethiopia.

Project Objectives:

  • Assist the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) in scaling up of drug management of Multi-Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB)
  • Strengthen laboratory networking
  • Assist the GoE in the coordination of the TB control program

Description:

TB CARE I assists the GoE in addressing the country’s TB-specific challenges, including extremely low case detection, the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB, and TB/HIV co-infection. To address these challenges, TB CARE I provides support on a national level in four major technical areas:

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