Mia Farrow traveled to Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo in February 2012 to promote polio eradication efforts and review other UNICEF programs. She met with polio-affected children, religious leaders to increase immunization rates, and partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Farrow visited vaccination sites, conflict-affected communities, and leaders. She participated in polio vaccination campaigns in Chad where the virus still circulates and malnutrition threatens children. Farrow also visited rehabilitation centers caring for children paralyzed by polio.
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1. From 12 to 22 February 2012, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow travelled to Chad and
the Democratic Republic of the Congo to promote expanded polio eradication efforts and to
review other UNICEF-supported programmes. Ms. Farrow met with children affected by polio;
with religious leaders to help raise critical support for increased immunization coverage; and
with partner representatives from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – a public-private
partnership led by governments and spearheaded by the World Health Organization
(WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and
UNICEF.
Her visits follow an important milestone towards eradicating the highly infectious disease: In
January, India – one of just four polio-endemic countries remaining in the world – for the first
time reported a full year with no new polio cases. (Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan are the
other three endemic countries.) Ms. Farrow also visited vaccination and other project sites; and
with children and families affected by ongoing conflict; community, traditional and local leaders;
and senior government; donor and partner officials.
In Chad, circulation of an imported wild poliovirus has persisted for over a year, and
malnutrition remains one of the biggest threats to children’s survival and development. Ms.
Farrow participated in the launch of the nationwide polio immunization campaign in
N’Djamena, the capital, and also visited health, rehabilitation and therapeutic feeding centres, a
cold-chain centre, displacement camps, and a UNICEF supply warehouse.