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...

Dear colleagues, Greetings, I hope you are doing well. I am currently conducting a doctoral research study on technology transfer and its impact on innovation and local pharmaceutical manufacturing in Africa, with a focus on Nigeria, Cameroon, and Senegal. Given the expertise within this communit...

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...

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...

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to share an analysis and discussion on Cameroon’s HPV vaccination crisis as reflected in WUENIC 2024 data. Coverage declined from 68% in 2023 to 36% in 2024, increasing the risk of preventable cervical cancer among adolescent girls. The latest Immunization for Resilie...

Dear Colleaques, The Immunization for Resilience newsletter is delighted to announce our first commentary in the peer-reviewed journal, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, Taylor & Francis Group.“Closing the Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Gap in Cameroon: Global Evidence and Policy Imperatives,” o...

Colleagues,I am sharing a concise analysis of Cameroon’s WUENIC 2024 results with targeted, system-level recommendations. The brief synthesises a decade of trends (2015–2024), highlights equity gaps, and proposes practical fixes aligned with IA2030.Key findings (snapshot):-HepB birth dose remains at...

Dear All, USAID is partnering with Digital Square to assess how governments and investors can harness existing digital tools and platforms to efficiently support response efforts in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including supporting vaccine planning, distribution and monitoring.  We nee...

After it all began... The month of July has been a very busy month for Scholars of both the French and English speaking cohorts in Cameroon. Throghout this month EPI activities at all levels of the health pyramid have been colored and flavored by the dynamism of the over 50 scholars scattered all o...

National vaccine logistics systems, originally designed in the 1980s, are today confronted to a real revolution in the following aspects: Broader range of vaccines and greater diversity of service delivery strategies Solarization and digitization of the supply chain: CCEOP, remote temperature mo...

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...

The Global Immunization Newsletter posted this article in February 2017. I share it with you in its entirety. Participants: Persons from Immunization Programmes, National Sta-tistics Offices or Research Institutes from Gabon, Guin-ea-Bissau, Madagascar, Morocco, and Senegal; all coun-tries plannin...

Posting by: David W Brown, Brown Consulting Group International, LLC, North Carolina, USA Marta Gacic-Dobo, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland The WHO and UNICEF recommend that immunization programmes order and supply vaccines bundled with safe-injection equipment (e.g., diluents, aut...

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...

These are the conclusions from the recent study in 4 Gavi countries (attached). Are you convinced by these findings?...

The IVAC VIMS Report on Global Vaccine Introduction - September 2014 is out! Recent updates (since March 2014) include: -South Sudan's introduction of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine in July 2014 marks a significant milestone in global health, as Hib-containing pentavalent vaccine is n...

This has been cross-posted from the SABIN website with thanks. Since late 2008, the Sustainable Immunization Financing (SIF) Program has been operating in twelve African, and three Asian pilot countries. Using a collective action approach, SIF invites key stakeholders - especially parliamentar...

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...