Stopping an Outbreak: Polio Response in Mozambique - ISS-G20 Laboratorium Repository

The year 2022 began the way Jolene Nakao, MD, MPH expected it to be – busy.   

As the senior advisor for public health response in CDC’s country office in Mozambique, she was supporting the country to respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and continued attention to HIV across the country. Along with those challenges (and – later in the year – an outbreak of cholera), Mozambique had a humanitarian crisis in the north, as well as the annual occurrence of tropical storms.

“Our colleagues in the health sector are responding continuously to a variety of health implications of disasters and outbreaks themselves,” she said.

Entire content available on: https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/immunization/stories/polio-response-mozambique.html