The Stop Transmission of Polio program, known as STOP, was developed by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention together with the World Health Organization in 1999, in partnership with UNICEF and Rotary International. It recruits, trains and deploys public health professionals, mostly to countries affected by wild poliovirus transmission, to strengthen surveillance, immunization and outbreak response; between 1999 and 2013 the program identified, trained and deployed more than 1,500 volunteers for over 2,200 assignments across 69 countries, and it has since expanded its scope to measles and rubella elimination and to strengthening routine immunization programs.
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