In its Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) Assessment Report 2015, the Strategic Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) recommended that the " Decade of Vaccines secretariat agencies report to SAGE in 2016 on their supporting activities conducted in the 10 countries where most of the unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children live. This annual reporting mechanism should include discussion of those reports in regional technical advisory groups. ".
To address this recommendation, the Decade of Vaccines secretariat included in its 2016 report an analysis describing the challenges, successes and opportunities that seven priority countries are facing in improving their immunization programme, as well as information on the activities conducted by some technical partners and donors to support those countries. The countries were the following: Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Uganda.
This year's report provides short updates for these seven countries as well as full reports for four additional countries, namely India, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea and Yemen.
The objective of those reports is to illustrate with some concrete examples, the situations and challenges countries are dealing with. Even though the reports focus on specific countries, many findings may apply to a wider range of countries including those having achieved most of the GVAP goals.
The countries have been selected to illustrate the diversity of the situations countries are facing, using several criteria including the number of unvaccinated-under-vaccinated children, the achievement of diseases elimination goals, disease
- Africa
- Ethiopia
