For the first time in 2019, the Americas reported more adults aged 65 or older than children younger than 5. These demographic shifts are expected to continue over time. As countries recognize the opportunities and challenges associated with this demographic shift, they must maximize the impact of their public health interventions – such as vaccina...
The delivery of COVID-19 (C19) vaccines posed unprecedented challenges in terms of delivery volume and new target populations. Meanwhile, what it costs to deliver these vaccines remains highly uncertain.To support governments in planning and budgeting for the C19 vaccination programs, ThinkWell, partnering with Genesis Analytics and the Hano...
Dates: 16-19 October 2023 Venue: Panama City, Panama Participants: Immunization professionals from 70 organizations and from more than 70 countries, ranging from national governments, academia and the private sector to consultants, donors, non-government organisations, and inter-governmental organisations. Background: TechNet is a global network of...
Malawi introduced typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into its routine immunization program beginning with a week-long campaign in May 2023 for children between the ages of 9 months and younger than 15 years. The integrated campaign included TCV, measles-rubella, and polio vaccines, as well as vitamin A supplementation for eligible children, further st...
Dates: 4-7 July 2023 Venue: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Participating countries: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, Madagascar, Mozambique Outcomes: During the 4-day meeting, the ARCC members led by Prof Rose Leke reviewed the situation of polio eradication globally and in the African Region, the response ...
Dates: 12-15 June 2023 Venue: Brazzaville, CONGOFifteen participating countries: EPI Managers, Data Managers, Surveillance Officers, Laboratory Officers. Facilitators:WHO; UNICEF; CDC; MRF (Meningitis Research Foundation); CoMO (Confederation of Meningitis Organizations); PATH Outcomes: Tremendous efforts made in the past two decades ...
Dates: 22-29/06/2023More than 90 surveillance, laboratory, immunization, and communication professionals, from different health regions of the country, participated in the workshop entitled” Standard Operating Procedures of the WHO in response to a poliovirus event or outbreak, and implementation of the recommendations for strengthening polio surve...
Dates: 24 – 31 July 2023Participants: Immunization, maternal and child health and planning Managers of the Minister of Health, Mali (National and regional), WHO, UNICEF (HQs, ROs, COs)Background: The lot quality assurance-cluster sampling (LQA-CS) survey, which validated maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination (MNTE) in the six...
COVID-19 vaccines have been developed in record time, but deployment has varied across countries due to differences in health system capacity, demand for the vaccine, and the purchasing power of countries. The aim is to synthesize experiences on service delivery and integration to inform future COVID-19 vaccination programming and for the knowledge...
PAHO’s Special Program for Integrated Immunization (CIM) is pleased to announce the new electronic dashboard for the visualization of poliomyelitis data is now available to all our users. We are confident that our tool will prove valuable and effective in supporting data-driven decision making. The dashboard has four tabs: Risk Assessment, Surveill...
In order to support countries with their vaccination-related risk communications and community engagement, PAHO has developed technical guidelines, “Communicating about Vaccination-Related Risks”. This document includes practical recommendations and lessons learned on the processes and principles of risk communication and community engagement, mess...
PAHO’s Comprehensive Immunization Special Program has redesigned and relaunched the Immunization Newsletter, a regular publication on the status of immunization in the Region of the Americas since 1979. On its 44th birthday, the layout was completely redesigned and a social media campaign helped relaunch this flagship publication with its latest is...
Several new vaccines including Rotavirus vaccine and Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV), were introduced under the Universal Immunization Program (UIP) in Bihar. The most recent introduction was PCV in 2017, in selected districts, with subsequent expansion across the states in 2018. During the COVID 19 pandemic, routine immunization (RI) activiti...
The PAHO Revolving Fund for Access to Vaccines (RFV) launched a new digital demand planning platform to Member States in Latin America and the Caribbean during a regional workshop held on 4-6 July in Panama City. The new digital demand planning module aims to replace the current excel-based demand tool and update the way member states plan and fore...
World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF published the 2022 annual estimates of national immunization coverage on Tuesday 18th July. The data was highly anticipated, especially in light of 2021’s data which warned that the COVID-19 pandemic had caused a sustained decline in global coverage – at great threat to the health of children and communiti...
Participants:Twenty-eight participants representing the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Ministries of Health (MoH) and a Freelance consultantPurpose:The workshop objectives were to brief participants on the Immunization Agenda 2030, Gavi 5.0/5.1 global immuniz...
Participants: Twenty-two EPI managers and NITAG chairs from 11 countries (Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates) attended, while other Agencies represented included CDC, Jordan CDC, EMPHENET, UNICEF-MENARO and WHO Headquarters. Purpose: The workshop objectives were to: support cou...
The Guatemalan Ministry of Health (MOH), with support from the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), developed the"Salud Sobre Ruedas" (SSR) strategy of mobile brigades in 189 rural communities in Alta Verapaz (See: https://bit.ly/42JDDmQ). These communities were selected for their limited access and va...
Tchirozérine Health District, with its high demographic density, influences the results of all health services in the Agadez Region.In terms of routine immunization in 2023, the district concentrates more than a quarter of the 28,927 region’s target children, distributed as follows: Aderbissanat (2088), Agadez Commune (6991), Arlit (6211), B...
The Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) was introduced under the Universal Immunization Program (UIP) in Gujarat in October 2021. In July 2022, as per the Health Management Information System (HMIS) portal, the administrative coverage for PCV-1 (1st Dose) was only 56% even after 9 months of introduction.In response, the state health depart...