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
Find the latest news related to achieving sustainable and equitable immunisation programmes, as well as the archive of past Linked newsletter issues.
Zipline and Ghana Partner for Drone Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines
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
The Experts Database: An Easier Way to Find the Right Health System Experts
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
LIVE STREAM: COVAX Vaccine Roll-out
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.
Country Readiness for COVID-19 Vaccines
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
Vaccinating Nations: Country Planning for an Unprecedented Immunization Campaign
This article was originally published on the World Bank’s blog. Below is an excerpt. Below, we lay out the four key elements to consider when planning an end-to-end vaccination deployment. 1. Vaccine Strategy Vaccine strategies hinge on governments defining clear objectives for the short, medium, and long terms. These objectives help to define the priority … Read More
LNCT Member Newsletter February 2021
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
Upcoming Course on Boosting Leadership to Activate Communities Beginning February 2021
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
Second Module of LNCT’s New Free Online Course on Vaccine Hesitancy and Demand Generation Now Available to the Public
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 Member Newsletter November/December 2020
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