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Mar 1, 2016

MCIA16 Official Conference Report

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FULFILLING A PROMISE: ENSURING IMMUNIZATION FOR ALL IN AFRICA See the official conference report for a look at the current state of immunization on the African continent.

A new report issued today by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean Region shows that despite considerable progress in expanding access to vaccines in Africa, one in five children on the continent still do not receive life-saving immunizations. Africa’s routine immunization coverage of 80% is the lowest of any region in the world.

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Dec 17, 2015

2015 Assessment Report of the Global Vaccine Action Plan: Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization

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The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) was endorsed by the World Health Assembly in May 2012 to achieve its “Decade of Vaccines” vision of universal access to immunization. This report provides a review of the progress on implementation of the GVAP by the World Health Organization’s Strategic Group of Experts on Immunization. It notes that the plan is off track to reach the GVAP targets and provides recommendations for actions required to meet the goals and objectives of the plan. This report follows 2014 and 2013 assessment reports.

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Apr 30, 2015

Saving Lives by Improving Global Immunization

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Global

Vaccines are one of the most effective public health interventions of all time—especially in developing countries,where many families cannot find or afford health care when their children get sick.

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Mar 23, 2015

Strategies to increase the demand for childhood vaccination in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Global

Almost 40 years after the launch of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Expanded Programme on Immunization, one in five children worldwide still does not have access to basic vaccines.

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May 25, 2012

Decade of Vaccines Fact Sheet

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Global

In 2010 the global health community recognized the need for widespread commitment to immunization and called for a Decade of Vaccines (DoV).   The vision of the DoV is to extend, by 2020 and beyond, the full benefits of immunization to all people, regardless of where they are born, who they are or where they live. The following document is a fact sheet.

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Jan 1, 2017

JSI ARISE Notes from the field

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Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana

In 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation created the ARISE project, managed by JSI, to assemble the evidence on what drives improvements in RI performance in Africa. To amass such evidence, ARISE conducted in-depth, mixed methods comparative case studies in Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Ghana. It employed an assets-based approach to identify common drivers of improvements in RI performance at the district level, describe the pathways by which they improve coverage, and identify contextual factors affecting performance.

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