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Comparing Resources
| Resource | Vaccination in Acute Humanitarian Emergencies. Implementation guide |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Applicable for acute and protracted emergency situations and aims to provide guidance on effective management and delivery of vaccination services, identify delivery strategies in different types of emergencies, facilitate early recovery of vaccination service delivery and facilitate sustaining and improving routine vaccination coverage during protracted periods of conflict. |
| Content | Guidance on planning (including planning templates), implementing vaccination services in a humanitarian emergency (including service delivery strategies, securing access, community-based interventions, and schedules), and early recovery of immunisation services post emergency. |
| Expected outcomes | Maintained or re-established routine vaccination services during and post emergency. |
| Strengths | Provides a clear operational framework for vaccination services in emergency contexts. |
| Contraints/Limitations | Does not provide “modular guidelines” or standard operating procedures, which would need to be developed in local context. |
| Why use it | (a) VPD outbreaks occur frequently in humanitarian emergencies due to disruption to health systems. (b) Humanitarian emergencies are an important reason for stagnating vaccination coverage, which indicates the need for guidance on supporting recovery of routine services post conflict. (c) Of relevance to zero dose and under immunised: This guide provides operational guidance on reaching hard to reach children in emergency situations. |
| Who should use it | Immunization Task Force in charge of planning and managing routine and/or additional vaccination service delivery in a humanitarian emergency context. |
| Additional Links | |
| Link to access the resource | /en/resources/guidance/vaccination-in-acute-humanitarian-emergencies-implementation-guide |
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