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December 31, 2012 U.S. Tax Status (see Tax Status Definitions) 501(c)(3) Public Charity Geographic Location(s) of Project Field work: Pakistan, Nigeria, Somalia INTERNATIONAL PEACE INSTITUTE SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 1 EFTA_R1_01976466 EFTA02678411 IPI Offices: New York, Vienna, Manama IPI PROPOSAL: P

rs. Somalia is one of the countries in the "wild poliovirus importation belt"—a band of countries stretching from west Africa to central Africa and the Horn of Africa, which are recurrently re-infected with imported polio virus. Although the situation varies across Somalia, parts of the country have been torn apar

ines. Areas where there is instability and weak governance are particularly vulnerable. Polio was limited to a few isolated regions of Afghanistan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria but due to intensifying conflict and low immunization levels the disease was able to spillover to neighboring states E

her 24 victims have been recorded in neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. Fifty six per cent of poliovirus cases worldwide in 2013 were attributable to the Horn of Africa epidemic. While the epidemic seemed to have peaked in October, a small number of residual cases have been identified. The large un-vaccinated and

es and hundreds of thousands of people displ=ced have come to us from Syria, Iraq and Gaza, from the Central African Republi=, South Sudan, Ukraine, Nigeria and Yemen. Aid workers and journalists have b=en caught and killed in the crossfire together with the civilian population.</=pan> The total collaps

reinforces the neglect, because a protracted crisis gets even less attention and resources than an exploding emergency. This is the sad reality of the Horn of Africa and in the Democra=ic Republic of Congo, where millions of displaced people are trapped in abject poverty. Aid workers say that the situation is no