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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.

This article is part six in a series of explainers on vaccine development and distribution and was originally published on the World Health Organization’s website. Below is an excerpt.  Countries are beginning to deploy COVID-19 vaccines, bringing new hope to the fight against the global pandemic. WHO, UNICEF, Gavi and many other partners are working together to support countries … Read More

LNCT UPDATES NEW LNCT BRIEF: Mobilizing Resources for Immunization in Decentralized Health Systems National immunization programs and immunization partners may need to consider new strategies to mobilize sufficient funding for immunization at subnational levels. This new LNCT brief outlines some of the key challenges found across LNCT countries with decentralized systems and offers several promising strategies for NIPs to … Read More

Register Today! DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021 OR AS SOON AS WE REACH MAXIMUM COURSE CAPACITY (50 PEOPLE) The Boost Community, in partnership with Adaptive Change Advisors and People Power Health, is excited to offer the course Boosting Leadership to Activate Communities beginning February 2021. This course in adaptive leadership and community … Read More

Dear LNCT members, We are pleased to announce that the second module of LNCT’s new online course on vaccine hesitancy and demand generation, “Using data to understand immunization behavior and build demand strategies” is now available to the public in English, French, Portuguese and Russian. Developed in partnership with Common Thread, this module outlines the importance of using data to design … Read More

LNCT UPDATES LNCT to Hold Session During Phase Two of the Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2020)LNCT’s organized Health Systems Research (HSR) session, “Should public health programs be integrated into national health insurance? The case of immunization”, will be taking place on December 9. The session will examine how the immunization programs in Georgia, Ghana, and Indonesia have … Read More