Dear Colleagues WHO and UNICEF African Regional offices are organizing a supplement publication commemorating 50 years of the EPI program, trying to document the lessons and experiences from the African Region. The supplement, to appear in the Pan African Medical Journal, will feature a range of co...

In September 2022, the Regional Director for AFRO, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, launched the ambitious new ‘Regional Framework to Defeat Meningitis in Africa by 2030’ and called on countries to ramp up implementation of the roadmap ahead of the next seasonal outbreak of meningitis in January 2023. Despite ...

The Vaccine Preventable DIseases program of WHO AFRO would like to share with you the Lessons Library aggregating the main lessons and best practices from the COVID vaccine roll out over the last 10 months. These are mostly harvested from the intra-action reviews that countries conducted in the midd...

The WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) and WHO Health Emergency programme (WHE) are partnering with Project ECHO of the University of New Mexico (UNM), UNICEF, and TechNet-21 to host a series of 15 sessions that align with countries’ immediate and medium-...

In 2016, Bull City Learning – the team behind Immunization Academy – redeveloped the World Health Organization’s African Regional training course for mid-level immunization managers. The course was first developed in 2000 to address the skills needed for program staff to manage immuni...

En Afrique, il faut plus mener des actions de sensibilisation de communautés pour que les futures Vaccins soient facilement accepter par les populations africaines. Matthieu Key, Expert en Santé Publique Gestionnaire des institutions de Sanitaires République Démocratique du Congo    ...

Immunization in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: Operational guidelines for National Immunization Programs in the WHO African Region Please find attached the draft operational guidelines from the WHO AFRO IVD program, developed for countries in the AFRO Region, in order to guide the condu...

We must do more to make sure everyone has access to essential health services. Investing in #immunization can help strengthen health systems and advance #UHC. #ProtectedTogether #VaccinesWork I’m sharing the good news from this week’s meeting of the Pan-African Parliamentarians (PAP) and AFRO to ad...

Across Tanzania, health providers often face the same problem: a lack of access to the data they need to make informed decisions and deliver high-quality care. Since the 2013 launch of the country’s National eHealth Strategy, the national government has made an earnest commitment to reverse this tre...

Does anyone know how many countries in the AFRO region are using vaccine outside of the cold chain or using the controlled temperature chain?...

The article Considerations for the development and implementation of electronic immunization registries in Africa, published this year, can be found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30344865...

The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to enter into a contractual agreement with a successful bidder and select a suitable contractor to carry out the following work: a value proposition of a generic guideline to establish and strengthen national Interagency Coordination Committees (ICC...

by Dr Blanche ANYA and Dr David BROWN During 21-24 February 2017, representatives from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda gathered in Kampala, Uganda to rethink and improve their country’s current home-based record design and functionality as well as the broader system that sup...

You are cordially invited to our upcoming conference - Africa Conference on Healthcare Delivery (AHD Conference 2017), which is taking place between 12 and 14 June, 2017 in Abuja, Nigeria. See attached conference flyer and "call for abstracts" or visit the conference website (conference.ahdonline.or...

Dear colleagues, I hereby announce the publication of my book entitled "Urban/rural vaccination coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa: The caregivers' perspective".The work is a contribution to the improvement of vaccination coverage in all settings and should be especially useful to community workers, ma...

In case this new article published in Applied Energy is of interest http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261916302793 AbstractAn intermittent solar adsorption refrigerator can supply cold needed in third world countries, especially for vaccine and medicine preservation. This paper...

As some of view may know, Unicef WCARO is undertaking an inventory of LMIS uses for EPI. All levels of the supply chain will be assessed and the inventory will cover all kind of tools: systems, softwares, excel spreadsheets, stock cards, forms, etc. Immediate objectives of the landscape are to: I...

A new WHO Information Note concerning the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now available on the WHO website. http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/ebola/ebola-immunization-afro As a public health emergency of international concern, the recent Ebola outbreak has drawn huge global attent...

The potential of immunization to improve public health continues to grow as new vaccines against major diseases are developed. The recent infusions of support for global immunization, both through the recent replenishment of GAVI Alliance funding and the Decade of Vaccines, will increase the worldw...

Evaluation of mid-level management training in immunisation in the African region. Mutabaruka E, Dochez C, Nshimirimana D, Meheus A. World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Division of Communicable Diseases, Immunization and Vaccine Development, Brazzaville, Congo. Abstract OBJEC...