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A project to recruit and train religious leaders to deliver information on vaccination has made strides, health workers say, among a population renowned for hesitancy.
Since gaining independence in 2011 from its now northern neighbour following decades of a protracted civil war, South Sudan faces daunting challenges in the provision of health services – especially in hard-to-reach areas with health infrastructures broken down during the civil war and made worse by the 2013 -2016 conflict.
"All four organizations...were able to make impactful contributions to polio transition and integration efforts in their respective countries, despite varying country contexts and significant contextual challenges."
Healthcare specialists say that while work must continue, they are elated at declaration of eradication
"In this scenario,...resource mobilization, advocacy, and social mobilization may be the reason for the high vaccination coverage among children under five years in remote, challenging, and hard-to-reach areas..." In under-immunised communities, the live, weakened virus originally contained in oral polio vaccine (OPV) can genetically revert into a