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LNCT Materials to Help you Make the Case for Investing in Immunization

Why We Need to Make a Case for Investment

Maintaining a high performing immunization program requires sustained commitment and funding over time.  Ongoing communication and advocacy are needed to maintain investments and to stimulate additional investments to achieve health goals. Advocating for resources for immunization at national and sub-national levels requires demonstrating the health and economic impact of proposed investments to convince decision makers to allocate funding for immunization.

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Re-evaluating the Potential Impact and Cost-effectiveness of Rotavirus Vaccination in 73 Gavi Countries: A Modelling Study

 | Frédéric Debellut, Andrew Clark, Clint Pecenka, Jacqueline Tate, Ranju Baral, Colin Sanderson, et al.
Background Previous studies have found rotavirus vaccination to be highly cost-effective in low-income countries. However, updated evidence is now available for several inputs (ie, rotavirus disease mortality rates, rotavirus age distributions, vaccine timeliness, and vaccine efficacy by duration of follow-up), new rotavirus vaccines have entered the market, vaccine prices have decreased, and cost-effectiveness thresholds have been re-examined. We aimed to provide updated cost-effectiveness estimates to inform national decisions about the new introduction and current use of rotavirus vaccines in Gavi countries. … Continued
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Georgia’s Introduction of the Hexavalent Vaccine: Lessons on Successful Procurement and Advocacy

This blog is also available in Russian. 

Authors: Eka Paatashvili and Vladimer Getia

As countries transition from Gavi support, sustaining access to affordable and high-quality vaccines is one of many challenges they face. Fully self-financing countries need to maintain their immunization programs while also committing increased funds for new vaccine introductions.

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UNICEF Immunization Financing in MENA Middle-Income Countries

 | UNICEF MENARO, Miloud Kaddar, Helen Saxenian, MK International Consulting, Nahad Sadr-Azodi, and Kamel Senouci

Most Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries have high immunization coverage rates. But immunization coverage has dropped considerably in some (including Iraq, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen), due to the conflicts, instability and the prevailing geopolitical situation in the region. Approximately 1.3 million surviving infants in MENA missed their third dose of DTP vaccine in 2016.

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WHO Immunization Advocacy Resource Library

 | World Health Organization

World Health Organization’s (WHO) Immunization advocacy library contains useful resources, information, and factsheets related to messaging on immunization and data on vaccination that can help immunization program managers and other stakeholders advocate for prioritization of immunization in political agendas and public health budgets.

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Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) 2011-2020

 | World Health Organization

The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) is a framework approved by the World Health Assembly in May 2012 to achieve the Decade of Vaccines vision by delivering universal access to immunization. The mission outlined in the GVAP is straightforward: improve health by extending by 2020 and beyond the full benefits of immunization to all people, regardless of where they are born,

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Value of Immunization Compendium of Evidence (VoICE) Tool

 | International Vaccine Access Center

VoICE is a browsable, queryable online database intended to capture the many ways in which immunization can be valued, and the evidence supporting this more comprehensive view of the value of vaccination. The information contained in the compendium has been drawn from peer-reviewed literature, expert commentaries and other high quality sources and synthesized with policy-focused global health advocacy organizations in mind.

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Vaccination and Trust Library – Resources to Make the Case for Immunization Programs

 | World Health Organization

WHO’s Vaccination and Trust Library contains advice, articles, and facts on building trust in vaccines and immunization programs with different parties. The documents and factsheets provide practical guidance on topics ranging from crisis communications, working with journalists, stakeholder management, how to respond to concerns and myths about vaccinations, and much more.

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PATH, IVAC, and Gavi Resources to Assist in Advocacy for Immunization

 | Advocacy for Immunisation

This website has been designed to provide self-guided tools, resources, and information about advocacy and communications for immunization and vaccines. It can be used by those new to advocacy, as well as more experienced advocates.

Each self-guided module includes a toolbox with downloadable worksheets, documents and resources related to advocacy and communications, as well as immunization and vaccines.

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Return on Investment from Childhood Immunization in Low- and Middle-income Countries, 2011-20

 | Sachiko Ozawa, Samantha Clark, Allison Portnoy, Simrun Grewal, Logan Brenzel and Damian G. Walker

An analysis of return on investment can help policy makers support, optimize, and advocate for the expansion of immunization programs in the world’s poorest countries. We assessed the return on investment associated with achieving projected coverage levels for vaccinations to prevent diseases related to ten antigens in ninety-four low- and middle-income countries during 2011–20, the Decade of Vaccines. We derived these estimates by using costs of vaccines,

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