Monthly Bulletin - COVID-19 vaccination in the African Region: Issue No. 03 - APR 2022

SUMMARY

The percentage of people fully vaccinated in the African Region increased from 13% at the end of March 2022 to 14.3% as of 30 April 2022. Six out of the 20 countries that had less than 10% of their population fully vaccinated in January 2022 have moved upward, surpassing 15% of their population fully vaccinated. These countries are Uganda, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sierra Leone. The highest increase in the percentage of people fully vaccinated in the past three months was seen in Uganda, Ethiopia, Côte d'Ivoire, Chad and Sierra Leone. These countries are among the priority countries for the multi-partner country support team initiative (Uganda, Ethiopia, Côte d'Ivoire and Chad) or for the global COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership (Sierra Leone) (...)

This bulletin shares lessons from Uganda in implementing a successful mass vaccination campaign. As a result of the second round of accelerated mass vaccination campaign which was launched on 10 March 2022 and is still ongoing, the percentage of the fully vaccinated population in Uganda increased from 4.4% at the end of January 2022 to 22.4% at the end of April 2022, a fivefold increase.

The International Organization for Migration's (IOM) experience in integrating vaccination services at points of entry in North-Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is also discussed.

The COVID-19 vaccination roll- out in the first four months of 2022 has shown that most countries in the African Region will miss the target of vaccinating 70% of their population by the end of June 2022, highlighting the need to focus on achieving set targets in high priority-use groups in all countries of the Region.

Read More in this month's Bulletin: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/354270

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