Central African Republic
This study reviews the administrative routine immunization data from 15 African countries for the period from January 2018 to June 2020 to analyze the trends in the monthly number of children vaccinated with specific antigens, and compare the...
- Catégorie: Data
- Pays: United Republic Of Tanzania, South Sudan, Senegal, Rwanda, Nigeria, Kenya, Guinea, Ghana, Gabon, Eritrea, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, Burundi, Angola
\"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...
- Catégorie: Global initiatives
- Pays: 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...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: Uganda, Somalia, Nigeria, Niger, Namibia, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon
- Organisation: WHO
On August 10, 2016, 2 years after the most recent wild poliovirus (WPV) case was reported in Nigeria (in July 2014) (1), two WPV cases were reported in the northeastern state of Borno, which has been severely affected by insurgency-related...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon
Despite the improvements made in global immunization coverage for children over the past decade,1,2 an estimated 21.8 million infants worldwide are still not being reached by routine immunization services.3 In 2013, most of the World Health...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: The Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia, Rwanda, Maldives, Jordan, Georgia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Costa Rica, Chad, Central African Republic, Belarus, Armenia, Albania, Afghanistan
- Organisation: WHO
Background Significant progress has been made to increase access to vaccines in Africa since the 1974 launch of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). Successes include the introduction of several new vaccines across the continent and...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: Zimbabwe, Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania, Uganda, Togo, Swaziland, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Senegal, Sao Tome And Principe, Nigeria, Niger, Namibia, Mozambique, Mauritania, Mali, Malawi, Madagascar, Liberia, Lesotho, Kenya, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Gambia, Gabon, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Cote D Ivoire, Comoros, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Benin, Angola, Algeria
Zika virus was originally identified in a sentinel rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest of Uganda in 1947. The virus is a member of the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus, and is transmitted to humans by Aedes species mosquitoes. The first report of...
- Catégorie: Global initiatives
- Pays: Uganda, Thailand, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Indonesia, India, Gabon, Egypt, Central African Republic
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...
- Catégorie: Global initiatives
- Pays: 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
In January 2012, polio eradication was declared a \"programmatic emergency for global public health\" by the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) (1). Since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) began in 1988 (2), progress...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Russian Federation, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, India, Congo, China, Chad, Central African Republic, Angola, Afghanistan
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