Immunization Coverage, Polio, Polio Sero Conversion, Polio Sero Prevalence
Conditions
Keywords
Polio disease, Intervention Package, Polio sero prevalence and sero conversion, Polio high risk areas of Pakistan
Brief summary
The objective of the projects is to Develop and implement a Package of interventions that will comprise of an augmented communication and counseling strategy coupled with private sector involvement and a combined Oral Polio Vaccine and Inject able Polio Vaccine approach during the Polio campaigns followed by the evaluation of this project for acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of the intervention Package.
Detailed description
This particular project has been designed to address the bottlenecks through innovations to address community mobilization and demand creation on one hand and assess the synergistic immune enhancement potential of combining Inject able Polio Vaccine (IPV) and Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) in at-risk children. This project will be implemented in high risk union councils of Karachi, district Kashmore in Sindh and Bajaur Agency in Federally administered Tribal areas (FATA) This will be a three cell cluster randomized trial to achieve the objectives of the study. The first cell of the study will receive all the routine activities being carried out by the polio program, the second cell will receive an expanded intervention with community support groups, enhanced communication package, education and counseling and involvement of private sector. While the third cell will receive all of the interventions of second cell with a combined OPV IPV approach during the polio immunization campaign through child health camps. We have calculated a total sample size of 120 clusters, 40 clusters per group for each study area i-e 120 for Karachi, 120 for Kashmore and 120 for Bajaur. Polio program in Pakistan has well established and demarcated vaccination areas assigned to a vaccination team, each vaccination area usually covers about 200 children therefore the area of vaccination team will be considered as one cluster in the proposed study. The implementation of the project will be followed by impact assessment activities that will include post vaccination coverage surveys and Immunity assessment activities and Environmental sample collection. A total sample size of 5310 children has been calculated for the immunity studies for seroprevalance and 5130 for stool virus shedding
Interventions
BEHAVIORALEnhanced Community mobilization
BIOLOGICALCombined Oral Polio Vaccine and Inject able Polio Vaccine during SIA
Sponsors
Pakistan Ministry of Health
Trust for Vaccines and Immunization, Pakistan
National Institutes of Health, Pakistan
Peshawar Medical College
World Health Organization
UNICEF
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Aga Khan University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
FACTORIAL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
1 Months to 5 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Healthy children aged 1 month to 5 years that reside within the study sites, and do not plan to travel away during entire the study period.
Exclusion criteria
* Children with known thrombocytopenia or bleeding disorders; children acutely ill or with signs of acute infection (e.g. fever ≥ 101 F) at the time of NID and a diagnosis or suspicion of immunodeficiency disorder.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Improved immunization coverage | At the completion of all recruitment and follow ups which will take an average time of 1 year | Improved coverage in both routine immunization and polio campaign Immunization compared to Baseline |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Improved Polio Sero prevalence | The immunity levels will be assessed at the time of recruitment, six weeks after recruitment and 18 weeks after recruitment | Population bases Immunity level for polio antibodies will be assessed by Sero prevalance and conversion at various time points |
| Quantification of Polio virus in stool samples | The stool samples will be collected and analysed at day 28, day 35 and day 49 after recruitment | Quantification of Polio virus will be assessed in stool samples collected at day 28, day 35 and day 49 after recruitment |
| Shedding of Polio virus in stool samples | The stool samples will be collected and analysed at day 28, day 35 and day 49 after recruitment | Shedding of Polio virus in stool samples will be assessed at day day 28, day 35 and day 49 after recruitment |
Countries
Pakistan
Outcome results
None listed