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Vaccine delivery in humanitarian situations
© UNICEF/UN0598405/Naftalin Vaccines are transported on a boat through the flooded village of Panyagor in South Sudan.
Countries facing humanitarian emergencies were among the last to access vaccines. Even where vaccines were available, refugee, IDP, and migrant populations were often not prioritized for vaccination. While many National Deployment and Vaccination Plans (NDVPs) from some countries with humanitarian populations identified these as priority groups, in practice many lacked reliable demographic & geographic information on them to enable vaccine delivery planning. This, combined with low demand and lower risk perceptions following the Omicron variant, has resulted in refugee, IDP, and migrant populations being less likely to be vaccinated than the general population.
COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery News and Stories
Jafarasa Sadat, the provincial lead of the Expanded Programme on Immunization, administers the last shot of the day to Jauado Alifa, a community leader at Malica, a settlement for internally displaced people in Mozambique. ©WHO
Fellowship Programme on Public Health Emergencies in Africa
The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) invites interested and eligible candidates to submit applications for a fellowship programme on improving the management of public health emergencies in Africa under the COVID-19 Incident Management Support Team (IMST).
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COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership Situation Report
This report covers the month of October 2022.
In this edition:
- Overview: Global Situation | 92 Advanced Market
- Commitment Countries | 34 Countries for Concerted Support
- In-depth: Vaccine Delivery in Humanitarian Settings
- Country insights: Democratic Republic of the Congo and Djibouti
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Resources and Technical Guidance
Presentation with country examples of good practices and innovation to mainstream/integrate COVID-19 vaccination in the main critical areas of vaccination.
NEW: Considerations to inform country COVID-19 vaccine decision-making
This slide set summarizes WHO latest recommendations on COVID-19 vaccines and considerations for current and future COVID-19 vaccination. The objective is to help orient the Ministry of Health (MoH) and National Immunization Advisory Committee Group (NITAG) in their COVID-19 vaccine strategic decisions
All COVID-19 vaccine delivery resources
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Conferences and trainings
Call for abstracts Vaccine Acceptance Research Network Conference
UNICEF is partnering with Sabin to announce the second annual Vaccination Acceptance Research Network conference, VARN2023, will be held from June 13-15, 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand.
This meeting will be an open, in-person event with facilitation of virtual presentations, as needed. Conference sessions will provide a space for exploration and facilitate the wide dissemination of a growing body of knowledge, practice, and evidence-informed strategies for driving action across the vaccination acceptance and demand ecosystem.
Submission Deadline: January 13, 2023 11:59pm EST.
You can apply in either English or in French.
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Learning Collective Initiative in Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership
This initiative series aims to collect and share key learnings, best practices and challenges in planning and implementing COVID-19 vaccination uptake. The sessions cover a range of topics with the November session focusing on best practices to integrate Covid-19 vaccination into Primary Health Care and Essential Immunization. Two countries presented their experiences: Cambodia (integrating Covid-19 vaccination with hypertension and diabetes screening for adults) and Colombia (joint planning of Covid-19 vaccine as one more vaccine of the National Immunization Program for 2023).
Slides and recordings from past sessions as well as registration links for future sessions are available here.
For more information on the topic of integration, see: Country experiences to date on integrating C-19 vaccination
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Global webinar:
Integrating COVID 19 demand into routine immunization and primary health care lessons from Syria, Iraq and Bangladesh.
UNICEF global Demand for Immunization and the Middle East and Northern Africa Regional Office invite you to a webinar on demand and integrating COVID-19 demand interventions into routine immunization and primary health care.
Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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East and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) Inter-partner SBC webinar on Country Experiences to increase C-19 vaccines demand and uptake.
This knowledge sharing webinar comprises two sessions, the first one taking place on November 23, the second one in January 2023 (dates TBC).
The first session will take stock of good practices and lessons learned from Mozambique, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, South Sudan and Tanzania. Please join the conversation by registering here.
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