PAHO’s Special Program for Integrated Immunization (CIM) is pleased to announce the new electronic dashboard for the visualization of poliomyelitis data is now available to all our users. We are confident that our tool will prove valuable and effective in supporting data-driven decision making. The dashboard has four tabs: Risk Assessment, Surveill...

In order to support countries with their vaccination-related risk communications and community engagement, PAHO has developed technical guidelines, “Communicating about Vaccination-Related Risks”. This document includes practical recommendations and lessons learned on the processes and principles of risk communication and community engagement, mess...

PAHO’s Comprehensive Immunization Special Program has redesigned and relaunched the Immunization Newsletter, a regular publication on the status of immunization in the Region of the Americas since 1979. On its 44th birthday, the layout was completely redesigned and a social media campaign helped relaunch this flagship publication with its latest is...

Several new vaccines including Rotavirus vaccine and Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV), were introduced under the Universal Immunization Program (UIP) in Bihar. The most recent introduction was PCV in 2017, in selected districts, with subsequent expansion across the states in 2018. During the COVID 19 pandemic, routine immunization (RI) activiti...

The PAHO Revolving Fund for Access to Vaccines (RFV) launched a new digital demand planning platform to Member States in Latin America and the Caribbean during a regional workshop held on 4-6 July in Panama City. The new digital demand planning module aims to replace the current excel-based demand tool and update the way member states plan and fore...

World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF published the 2022 annual estimates of national immunization coverage on Tuesday 18th July. The data was highly anticipated, especially in light of 2021’s data which warned that the COVID-19 pandemic had caused a sustained decline in global coverage – at great threat to the health of children and communiti...

Participants:Twenty-eight participants representing the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Ministries of Health (MoH) and a Freelance consultantPurpose:The workshop objectives were to brief participants on the Immunization Agenda 2030, Gavi 5.0/5.1 global immuniz...

Participants: Twenty-two EPI managers and NITAG chairs from 11 countries (Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates) attended, while other Agencies represented included CDC, Jordan CDC, EMPHENET, UNICEF-MENARO and WHO Headquarters. Purpose: The workshop objectives were to: support cou...

The Guatemalan Ministry of Health (MOH), with support from the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), developed the"Salud Sobre Ruedas" (SSR) strategy of mobile brigades in 189 rural communities in Alta Verapaz (See: https://bit.ly/42JDDmQ). These communities were selected for their limited access and va...

Tchirozérine Health District, with its high demographic density, influences the results of all health services in the Agadez Region.In terms of routine immunization in 2023, the district concentrates more than a quarter of the 28,927 region’s target children, distributed as follows: Aderbissanat (2088), Agadez Commune (6991), Arlit (6211), B...

The Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) was introduced under the Universal Immunization Program (UIP) in Gujarat in October 2021. In July 2022, as per the Health Management Information System (HMIS) portal, the administrative coverage for PCV-1 (1st Dose) was only 56% even after 9 months of introduction.In response, the state health depart...

The ability to collect and analyze accurate, up-to-date data is critical for the activities of the World Health Organization (WHO). For example, data on immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) helps identify gaps, and trigger actions to be able to live in a “world where everyone, everywhere, at every age, fully benefits from vaccines to...

Dashboard for Routine Vaccination Coverage Monitoring, Guatemala, May 2023. Data visualization plays a crucial role in analyzing public health data and aiding in informed decision-making. The introduction of an interactive dashboard by the Guatemalan Ministry of Health (MOH) has provided a valuable tool for daily reporting of COVID-19 cases. To enh...

Participants: Officials from Ministries of Health from 10 countries and regional advisors from PAHO. This technical meeting was an opportunity for PAHO to demonstrate that Life Course Approach (LCA) concepts can be applied to a long-standing public health program, and that specific questions and concrete actions can be addressed under the auspices ...

For the 13th year, the AFRO Region synchronized with the other 5 WHO regions to commemorate the World Immunization Week, from 24-30 April 2023. On 20 April, a press conference to set the scene was addressed by the Director of Programme Management (AFRO) and the Minister of Health of the Republic of Sierra Leone, among key hosts.On the contin...

Four years after the introduction of the malaria vaccine in parts of Kenya, WHO’s Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme (MVIP) team visited government offices, health facilities and homes in the country’s western region to hear from health professionals, community members and caregivers about what the malaria vaccine means to them and how the va...

Registration is now open for the Immunization Economics 2023 IHEA Pre-Congress on 8-9 July, 2023, in Cape Town, South Africa! The session will bring together early-career to seasoned researchers from academic institutions, NGOs, and multinational organizations to exchange knowledge on the latest research methods and approaches in immunization costi...

From 13 to 18 February 2023, Burkina Faso conducted a Mid-level Management (MLM) course training. The MLM course is a series of 18 modules developed by WHO on different topics on the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) management. The training was facilitated by the WHO/IST West Africa colleagues in charge of Finance sustainability, Routine Im...

Alliances between different health actors strengthened coordination, articulation and facilitated the resources to energize health sector authorities to promote the development of capacities and expansion of human resources in immunization.Microplanning and risk communication techniques were used to carry out high-quality vaccination c...

The “Strengthening implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health” guide was jointly developed by WHO, UNICEF and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for country programme managers. The guide aims to provide activities and decision-making tools that strengthen the processes around planning, designing, impl...