Equatorial Guinea
\"Each year, the WHO and UNICEF release an annual report that estimates global immunization coverage. The report offers a snapshot of the world’s progress toward achieving the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), which was endorsed by all 194 WHO...
- Category: Global initiatives
- Country: Ukraine, Syrian Arab Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Central African Republic
- Organisation: UNICEF, WHO
From 24-30 April 2016, countries in the African Region commemorated the 6th African Vaccination Week (AVW).The goal of AVW is to strengthen immunization programmes in the African Region by raising awareness on the need and right of...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Uganda, Somalia, Nigeria, Niger, Namibia, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon
- Organisation: WHO
In 2011, the 46 World Health Organization (WHO) African Region (AFR) member states established a goal of measles elimination* by 2020, by achieving 1) ≥95% coverage of their target populations with the first dose of measles-containing vaccine...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Nigeria, Gabon, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Central African Republic, Benin, Angola
Since 1988, when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)* began, the annual number of polio cases has decreased by >99% (1). Only three countries remain that have never interrupted wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Somalia, Pakistan, Nigeria, India, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Afghanistan
This report highlights the achievements made in expanding access to vaccines in Africa and discusses some of the remaining challenges to achieving universal access to vaccines. The timing of this report coincides with the halfway point of the...
- Category: Global initiatives
- Country: Zimbabwe, Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania, Uganda, Tunisia, Togo, Swaziland, Sudan, South Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Senegal, Sao Tome And Principe, Rwanda, Nigeria, Niger, Namibia, Mozambique, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Malawi, Madagascar, Libya, Liberia, Lesotho, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Gambia, Gabon, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Djibouti, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Cote D Ivoire, Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Benin, Angola, Algeria
This report, prepared by the Secretariat for the Decade of Vaccines Global Vaccine Action Plan, serves as the basis for the independent review. As was the case in 2013 and 2014, this report reviews progress against each of the indicators in the...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Zimbabwe, Zambia, Yemen, Uruguay, Uganda, Tunisia, Timor Leste, Tajikistan, Sudan, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Korea South, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Nigeria, Niger, Nicaragua, Myanmar, Mongolia, Mali, Libya, Liberia, Kazakhstan, Jamaica, Iraq, Iran Islamic Republic Of, Indonesia, India, Haiti, Guinea, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Cote D Ivoire, Colombia, Chile, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Cambodia, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Benin, Bangladesh, Algeria, Afghanistan
The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) sets ambitious but achievable goals, to save thousands of lives through vaccination in this Decade of Vaccines to 2020. The Decade of Vaccines is not on course to achieve its true potential. Good progress has...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Yemen, Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Nigeria, Niger, Mexico, Mauritania, Kenya, India, Haiti, Guinea, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, Cambodia, Angola, Afghanistan
- Organisation: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE), WHO
In 1988, the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) resolved to eradicate polio worldwide (1). Wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission has been interrupted in all but three countries (Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan). No WPV type...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Syrian Arab Republic, Somalia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Iraq, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Afghanistan
- Organisation: WHO
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Update on Maternal Neonatal Tetanus Elimination: October 2010
[b]UPDATE ON MATERNAL NEONATAL TETANUS ELIMINATION AS OF OCTOBER 2010[/b] [b] [/b] [b] [/b]WHO/CHERG estimates for causes of child mortality show that Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) was responsib
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Monthly MNT Elimination Updates- June 2009
Launched in 1999 by UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA and partners the MNT Elimination initiative has led to protection of more than 90 million women against tetanus in more than 45 countries through Supplemental Im
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