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Countries across sub-Saharan Africa continue to make progress toward improving routine immunization (RI) coverage, yet significant operational challenges remain in delivering potent vaccines to underserved and hard-to-reach populations. Outreach immunization activities are routinely conducted in env...
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Dear colleagues,
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its first Global Youth Competition on Influenza and COVID-19 Prevention and Control, inviting young people aged 18–35 years to submit creative videos on how to protect themselves and their loved ones from influenza and/or COVID-19....
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to share a new preprint examining how health-zone-specific transmission may shape the potential impact of ring vaccination during the 2026 Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The analysis found that health zones with the same ope...
The 2025 WHO and UNICEF Estimates of National Immunization Coverage (WUENIC) will be officially released on 15 July 2026.
WHO and UNICEF, with the support of TechNet, are pleased to inform you that we will hold a public webinar on the same day to present and discuss the key finding...
A new case study is available on TechNet on routine immunization strengthening in South Sudan, Greater Upper Nile region, including short documentaries.
South Sudan’s Greater Upper Nile region is a complex environment with significant operational challenges to delivering vaccines while navigating s...
What is MAINSTREAM?
The MAINSTREAM initiative worked with local mentor institutes in Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Pakistan to support 25 small embedded implementation research (IR) projects to strengtheng immunization coverage and equity, especially for zero dose children. Th...
Nine officials from Egypt’s Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) strengthened their technical skills in Cold Chain Equipment Management (CCEM) during a 10-day training at the EAC Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunization and Health Supply Chain Management in Kigali, Rwanda (3–15 M...
In this episode of the Alliance lift, Dr Shalom Ndoula (the Director for Cameroon EPI) talks about his own trajectory from community-level facilities to now overseeing the country's immunization programme and what he has learned along the way. His insights touch on adaptation of programmes and polic...
Chers collègues,
Bonjour, j’espère que vous allez bien.
Je mène actuellement une recherche doctorale sur le transfert de technologies et son impact sur l’innovation et la production pharmaceutique locale en Afrique, avec un focus sur le Nigeria, le Cameroun et le Sénégal.
Compte tenu de l’experti...
GiveWell is looking to identify programs that increase the uptake of routine childhood immunizations by bringing vaccination services closer to communities through targeted outreach sessions or mobile vaccination. We think these programs have the potential to be highly cost-effective and scalable an...
Dear Colleaques,
Happy to share the latest edition of ImmunizationForResilienceNewsletter, titled:
"Cholera 2026: When The System Sees It Coming But Cannot Move - The Scenario Nobody Talks About"
This edition looks at a reality many teams face in 2026: community-based surveillance can be function...
Learning agenda on hepatitis B birth dose vaccine delivery in Africa
Insights and recommendations to improve timely administration
Wednesday 4 March at 16:00–17:30 EAT | 14:00–15:30 CET | 8:00–9:30 EST
Chronic hepatitis B affects 254 million people globally, with the highest burden in low‑ and m...
Hello Everyone,
I wanted to share a new op-ed, co-authored by Last Mile Health and VillageReach, that highlights how community health workers (CHWs) are driving meaningful improvements in vaccine access across Africa — especially for zero-dose and under-immunized children.
The piece, published on ...
Reaching zero-dose children requires evidence that can be applied in real programs and policy decisions. A new post on Gavi’s VaccinesWork blog shows how the Zero-Dose Learning Hub is translating implementation research from Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda into practical tools and insights tha...
The Zero-Dose Learning Hub, led by JSI, has released its October 2025 semiannual reports, sharing new implementation research and system insights from Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda. These findings offer practical lessons for practitioners and program leaders, highlighting the factors that co...
The Immunization Economics Community of Practice are holding a webinar on 10 December 2025 at 15:00 Central European Time on the cost of reaching zero-dose children, click here to register now!
Presenters will share a global synthesis of the evidence on the cost of reaching zero-dose children, as w...
Come learn how implementation research is helping immunization programmes reach zero dose children!
Under the MAINSTREAM project, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department at WHO in collaboration with local mentor institutes have...
Request for Expression of Interest (EOI): Development, Manufacturing, and Distribution of Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) and Enzyme Immunoassays (EIAs) for Acute Typhoid Fever Surveillance
Typhoid fever (TF) is a severe systemic illness associated with abdominal pain, fever and occasionally can be l...
Join us next Monday for an exciting webinar discussing Lessons Learned from the Big Catch-up!
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department at WHO in collaboration with local partners have conducted case studies of the BCU i...
To mark World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day on 17 November, VillageReach invites you to the online premiere of our short film, Peer-to-Peer Learning to Improve HPV Vaccine Coverage.
This film highlights how communities in Manica Province, Mozambique are working together to improve HPV v...
VillageReach just published a new brief calling for expanding CHWs' role in immunization services. From outreach to planning to vaccine administration CHWs can help reach more people with vaccines.
What CHW centric approaches have you seen work well in your work?
What approaches would y...
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