Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) was introduced in the state of Maharashtra, India under the routine immunization programme in June 2021 at the peak of COVID-19 pandemic.The trainings of medical officers and health workers for this introduction were conducted in a hybrid mode. This might have led to gaps in the knowledge of healthcare wo...

Dates: 16/10/2023 Participants: 17 662 health professional registrants (9691 anglophones and 7971 francophones) The Knowledge to Action Hub is a gateway to knowledge produced by health professionals contributing to the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) through TGLF’s peer learning programme.Access the Hub here.17 662 regi...

As of October 2023, WHO recommends the use of malaria vaccines for children living in endemic areas, prioritizing settings with moderate and high transmission.New vaccine introduction requires a range of strategies to achieve high confidence and uptake. To support the rollout of malaria vaccines with high demand and uptake, immunization and ...

Dates: 19-21/09/2023 Participants: 101 representatives from Ministries of Health (Albania, Cameroon, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore), country offices, regional offices, and headquarters of WHO and UNICEF, and key immunization partners (Acasus AG, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Gavi Secre...

The Guatemalan Ministry of Health (MOH), with technical and financial support from the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), is organizing regional workshops to strengthen the capacities of healthcare personnel in outbreak response and immunization activities microplanning. The workshops are targeting profes...

For the first time in 2019, the Americas reported more adults aged 65 or older than children younger than 5. These demographic shifts are expected to continue over time. As countries recognize the opportunities and challenges associated with this demographic shift, they must maximize the impact of their public health interventions – such as vaccina...

The delivery of COVID-19 (C19) vaccines posed unprecedented challenges in terms of delivery volume and new target populations. Meanwhile, what it costs to deliver these vaccines remains highly uncertain.To support governments in planning and budgeting for the C19 vaccination programs, ThinkWell, partnering with Genesis Analytics and the Hano...

Dates: 16-19 October 2023 Venue: Panama City, Panama Participants: Immunization professionals from 70 organizations and from more than 70 countries, ranging from national governments, academia and the private sector to consultants, donors, non-government organisations, and inter-governmental organisations. Background: TechNet is a global network of...

Malawi introduced typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into its routine immunization program beginning with a week-long campaign in May 2023 for children between the ages of 9 months and younger than 15 years. The integrated campaign included TCV, measles-rubella, and polio vaccines, as well as vitamin A supplementation for eligible children, further st...

Dates: 4-7 July 2023 Venue: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Participating countries: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, Madagascar, Mozambique Outcomes: During the 4-day meeting, the ARCC members led by Prof Rose Leke reviewed the situation of polio eradication globally and in the African Region, the response ...

Dates: 12-15 June 2023 Venue: Brazzaville, CONGOFifteen participating countries: EPI Managers, Data Managers, Surveillance Officers, Laboratory Officers. Facilitators:WHO; UNICEF; CDC; MRF (Meningitis Research Foundation); CoMO (Confederation of Meningitis Organizations); PATH Outcomes: Tremendous efforts made in the past two decades ...

Dates: 22-29/06/2023More than 90 surveillance, laboratory, immunization, and communication professionals, from different health regions of the country, participated in the workshop entitled” Standard Operating Procedures of the WHO in response to a poliovirus event or outbreak, and implementation of the recommendations for strengthening polio surve...

Dates: 24 – 31 July 2023Participants: Immunization, maternal and child health and planning Managers of the Minister of Health, Mali (National and regional), WHO, UNICEF (HQs, ROs, COs)Background: The lot quality assurance-cluster sampling (LQA-CS) survey, which validated maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination (MNTE) in the six...

COVID-19 vaccines have been developed in record time, but deployment has varied across countries due to differences in health system capacity, demand for the vaccine, and the purchasing power of countries. The aim is to synthesize experiences on service delivery and integration to inform future COVID-19 vaccination programming and for the knowledge...

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...

At the outset of the EYE Strategy in 2017, EYE's key partners - WHO, UNICEF and Gavi - committed to a mid-term evaluation in 2022.An independent mid-term evaluation (managed by the WHO Evaluation Office) was undertaken to assess EYE’s progress, since its launch in 2017, and to provide recommendations for the way forward. The aim of the mid-t...

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...