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This article originally appeared on Gavi’s Vaccines Work.  Below is an excerpt.  In the lead up to Nigeria receiving the first batch of 16 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine under the COVAX initiative, one area of concern was how to distribute the vaccines across the country’s vast 923 square kilometres land mass. This is … Read More

This blog originally appeared on the World Bank website. Below is an excerpt.  From a shrinking government spending pie, a larger slice for health makes a balanced diet for most economies ailing from COVID-19. After rapid increases in government expenditure to control the pandemic and to protect people, jobs, and businesses, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects … Read More

Dear LNCT members, We are pleased to announce that the third module of LNCT’s  online course on vaccine hesitancy and demand generation, “Building knowledge and awareness about immunization amongst caregivers and families”  is now available to the public in English, French, Portuguese and Russian. Developed in partnership with Common Thread, this module focuses on why building knowledge and … Read More

Deadline for submission: 9 May 2021 at 18:00 Geneva Switzerland time Scope of the training The intent is to cover a spectrum of infodemic management skills and topics focused on skills needed to apply infodemic management interventions and practice to promote resilience of individuals and communities to the infodemic, including misinformation, and to promote self … Read More

In Nigeria, the dual challenge of low coverage and inequitable access, particularly in the northern part of the country, has led to low immunization coverage, making the populous nation one of the largest contributors to the global burden of vaccine-preventable illnesses and deaths (VPDs). Lack of political will, insufficient organizational capacity and inadequate funding were … Read More

This story originally appeared on PATH’s website. Below is an excerpt. Frontline immunization workers in Kenya and Zambia are now helping to determine how the World Health Organization’s (WHO) model universal packaging and labeling for COVID-19 vaccines will vary from the standard operating procedures they currently use, and how to best accelerate vaccine distribution where … Read More

This story originally appeared on Gavi’s website. Below is an excerpt. Reaching the goals of Kenya’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan requires the best possible interaction between public and private healthcare sectors. Catherine Kyobutungi, Executive Director of the African Population and Health Research Center, provided some insights into the country’s COVID-19 vaccine strategy and the inclusion … Read More

This story originally appeared on Gavi’s website. Below is an excerpt.  The first deliveries of up to 2.5 million doses of COVAX vaccines by autonomous drone began last week in Ghana. On the morning of 2 March in Mpanya, a rural spot in Ghana’s southern-central Ashanti region, a launcher zinged as it whipped a drone … Read More

To bring greater visibility and more opportunities to experts and institutions specializing in health systems strengthening in low- and middle-income countries, Results for Development and the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center have launched The Experts Database, a networking platform similar to LinkedIn, but exclusively for the health systems strengthening community. The platform seeks to elevate the profiles of experts from the … Read More

Deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines funded through the Gavi COVAX AMC to lower-income countries has begun. You can watch a live stream of the vaccine roll-out on Gavi’s website here.