Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the decreased availability of health care workers. These health care worker shortages are a critical challenge faced by many countries, as they have disrupted the delivery of routine immunisation services largely due to reassignment and reduction in bandwidth due to pandemic response activities, illness among the immunisation workforce, and mandatory lockdown policies.
… ContinuedOur resource library is a searchable collection of documents, tools, and resources on achieving sustainable and equitable immunisation programmes. You can filter the resources by topic, type, or country.
Resources
A New Approach for Estimating the Costs and Budgeting Requirements of a National Immunisation Strategy
Learning about a new approach for estimating the costs of a National Immunisation Strategy.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS MATERIAL:Country stakeholders involved in the development of a National Immunisation Strategy can use the NIS.COST tool to calculate costs of the strategies and interventions that are included in their NIS, assign costs to government budget categories,
… ContinuedImproving Vaccination Equity in Rural Uganda
Exploring the impact of CHAI Uganda’s work in increased vaccination rates in underserved villages.
Local stakeholders can learn about effective interventions to identify and reach underserved villages with immunisation services and lessons to implement the interventions in their context.
OVERVIEW:CHAI Uganda’s vaccines team set out to help the government address challenges with routine immunization service delivery and improve equity across 14 districts.
… ContinuedFindings from Immunisation Campaign Costing Studies in in India, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone: Policy and Program Implications
Learning the potential operational costs associated with conducting immunisation campaigns.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS MATERIAL:The findings from these studies can help inform vaccine delivery planning and budgeting, as well as ensure adequate funding.
OVERVIEW:Over the coming years, campaigns which co–
… ContinuedAn Epidemic of Uncertainty: Rumors, Conspiracy Theories and Vaccine Hesitancy
Learning the importance of building trust to overcome vaccine hesitancy.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS MATERIAL:Government decision-makers and health workers can explore this perspective to gain an understanding of the vaccine misinformation landscape, the importance of trust, and strategies for building vaccine confidence.
OVERVIEW:The epidemiological and social crises brought about by COVID-19 have magnified widely held social anxieties and trust issues that,
… ContinuedCOVID-19 in the Americas: Listening to the Most Vulnerable
Exploring community perceptions and attitudes of vulnerable populations in the Latin America and Caribbean region around the COVID-19 vaccines.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS MATERIAL:Government decision-makers and other local partners can review the findings to understand vulnerable populations challenges and use the recommendations to coordinate efforts to further invest into building community trust,
… ContinuedOvercoming Immunisation Workforce Challenges Due to COVID-19
Author: Elizabeth Ohadi
The Linked Immunisation Action Network hosted a podcast with health workforce experts to discuss the global health workforce challenges that have arisen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We wanted to hear how countries across the world have been addressing these challenges.
As we approach the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and countries within the Linked Network strive to maintain,
… ContinuedMaintaining Polio-Free Status in Indonesia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Learning about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the polio eradication efforts in Indonesia.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS MATERIAL: OVERVIEW:Ensuring the high coverage of immunization and high performance of surveillance are essential to maintaining the Indonesia’s polio-free status. However, the negative impact of the pandemic on the polio eradication efforts has been unavoidable.
… ContinuedIdentifying the Poor Through Data Linkage and Inter-agency Coordination: A Health Practitioner’s Handbook and Toolbox
Learning the fundamental concepts of population targeting, as well as practical tools and guidance for improving population targeting functions.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS MATERIAL:Health leaders and practitioners can use this handbook to learn strategies and tools that will enable them to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their approach to identifying and targeting poor and vulnerable people.
… ContinuedInequality Monitoring in Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent health
Exploring how to monitor inequalities in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health.
HOW YOU CAN USE THIS MATERIAL:Those involved in monitoring and evaluation, programme planning, and/or policy development efforts can use this guide to learn about the processes of setting the scope for inequality monitoring,
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