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ASSEFA SEME DERESSE:
In this next session,

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we're going to look at who
are the health workers.

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Planning, implementing,
and evaluating

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any program is resource
intensive, particularly

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the polio eradication program
with its goal of reaching

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every child, required a wide
range of people to be engaged.

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Human resources will be on
the formal health sector

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where we created.

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At the peak of the time, the
World Health Organization

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deployed 1,500 technical
staff and nearly twice as many

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administrative support personnel
to work on polio eradication

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worldwide.

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The Global Polio
eradication initiative

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was mobilizing over 10 million
volunteers and health workers

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each year to immunize
nearly 600 million children

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with two billion
doses of vaccines

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at the peak of its activities.

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The health workforce
that we talk about

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is not only limited to the
health service providers.

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The non-health
service providers that

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back up the service from
behind are also included.

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To mention some of the
health service providers,

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we can talk of physicians,
nurses, paramedical personnel,

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community health workers,
volunteer surveillance

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officers, lab technicians,
and immunization officers

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to just cite a few of them.

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Among non-health
service providers,

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individuals not engaged in the
direct provision of the service

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but who are backing the
program from behind,

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like program accountants,
administrative professionals,

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clerical workers,
drivers, and others.

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Looking at the key categories,
let's take a closer look

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at some of the key categories of
staff in a typical Global Polio

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eradication initiative.

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These are just a few.

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There are many more.

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The key categories
were classified

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and they're the World
Health Organization, UNICEF,

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Government, and other partners.

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The World Health
Organization was

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keen to provide surveillance
officers, drivers,

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administrative staff,
epidemiologists,

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and some others.

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UNICEF.

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On its part, contributed
communication professionals,

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drivers, administrative
staff, and so on.

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The government also provided
national level officials,

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district level officials,
frontline managers,

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and, of course, door-to-door
vaccination staff.

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For example, millions of
such door-to-door vaccinators

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were presented in India.

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Other partners have
provided-- have contributed

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lab staff, rotary volunteers,
CDC STOP staff teams

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are some of the teams that
have participated in the polio

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eradication initiative.

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The point is that it
takes a huge variety

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of specialized staff
of various types

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to accomplish a goal like this.

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Here is another example
that displays the wide range

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and breadth of health workers
involved in polio eradication

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activities in India.

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There are millions of other
workers contributing to polio

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eradication activities.

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Looking at this
diagram, we can see

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who was the health workforces
with many different types

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of individuals with
varying skills.

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For example, administrative
staff, surveillance officers,

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immunization officers,
volunteers, doctors, nurses,

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barometer [INAUDIBLE] but even
using all of their government

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health staff, in
most countries, it's

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still not enough to do a
door-to-door vaccination

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campaign.

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So the Global Polio
eradication initiative

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relies on additional staff,
which is the volunteers.

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In the early days of polio
eradication in the Americas,

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many people volunteered to
help eradicate polio, including

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the wealthy and the
middle class people

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like rotarians, who came out
to help with polio campaigns

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for a day or two.

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On this slide here,
I'm showing you

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the three volunteers,
women volunteers, who

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are sorting out polio vaccines.

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