The COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership | Update (November 2022)

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November 2022 | Issue 03

Vaccine delivery in humanitarian situations

© UNICEF/UN0598405/Naftalin Vaccines are transported on a boat through the flooded village of Panyagor in South Sudan.

Countries facing humanitarian emergencies were among the last to access vaccines. Even where vaccines were available, refugee, IDP, and migrant populations were often not prioritized for vaccination. While many National Deployment and Vaccination Plans (NDVPs) from some countries with humanitarian populations identified these as priority groups, in practice many lacked reliable demographic & geographic information on them to enable vaccine delivery planning. This, combined with low demand and lower risk perceptions following the Omicron variant, has resulted in refugee, IDP, and migrant populations being less likely to be vaccinated than the general population.

COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery News and Stories

Jafarasa Sadat, the provincial lead of the Expanded Programme on Immunization, administers the last shot of the day to Jauado Alifa, a community leader at Malica, a settlement for internally displaced people in Mozambique. ©WHO

Donors making a difference: The European Union teams up with WHO to boost COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Africa

Nambia | The day COVID came into our house

Five reasons why COVAX supports all nations

Dial-a-vax: Pakistan’s 1166 helpline has answers for the country’s vaccine questions

ACT-Accelerator launches six month plan as world transitions to long-term COVID-19 control

Bangladesh – Turning the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity

COVID-19 vaccination roll-out stagnates in Africa

WHO Ethiopia Supports Training to Drive COVID-19 Vaccination Data Management

Social media campaign promotes vaccination against COVID-19 in Belarus

4 things to know about COVID-19 treatment in the Pacific

GAVI's contribution to the COVID-19 response to pandemic

Somalia achieves historic landmark in its fight against COVID-19: 30% of eligible population now fully vaccinated

Europe: Working together towards COVID-19 and seasonal influenza vaccinations for this winter

In Cambodia, community conversations help protect against COVID-19

Community leaders in Georgia called upon to promote COVID-19 vaccination

Fellowship Programme on Public Health Emergencies in Africa

The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) invites interested and eligible candidates to submit applications for a fellowship programme on improving the management of public health emergencies in Africa under the COVID-19 Incident Management Support Team (IMST).

COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership Situation Report

This report covers the month of October 2022.

In this edition:

Resources and Technical Guidance

NEW: Country experiences with COVID-19 vaccination: Mainstreaming & integration with immunization programme services and PHC

Presentation with country examples of good practices and innovation to mainstream/integrate COVID-19 vaccination in the main critical areas of vaccination.

NEW: Considerations to inform country COVID-19 vaccine decision-making

This slide set summarizes WHO latest recommendations on COVID-19 vaccines and considerations for current and future COVID-19 vaccination. The objective is to help orient the Ministry of Health (MoH) and National Immunization Advisory Committee Group (NITAG) in their COVID-19 vaccine strategic decisions

NEW: WHO – UNICEF guidance: Considerations for integrating COVID-19 vaccination into immunization programmes and primary health care for 2022 and beyond

English | French | Spanish | Portuguese

NEW: Slide deck: Considerations to inform country COVID-19 vaccine decision-making version 3 - (1 Nov2022)

English | French | Spanish

NEW: Global Compendium of country knowledge on COVID-19 vaccination

NEW: WHO – UNICEF guidance on Considerations for integrating COVID-19 vaccination into immunization programmes and primary health care for 2022 and beyond
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NEW: The Service Experience Toolkit provides an easy to follow introduction to the concept of immunization service experience at country level, particularly country-level EPI staff and implementing partners. The toolkit complements the Quality Immunization Services Planning guide that outlines the different components of quality and highlights key actions at all levels of the health system to monitor, strengthen and maintain the quality of immunization services, with broader benefit to primary care.

NEW: Technical Paper ‘Key considerations for integrating COVID-19 vaccination: insights from Iraq and Syria for the MENA region' prepared by the inter-agency ‘Social Sciences in Humanitarian Action' platform. The Paper documents case experiences from Iraq and Syria in integrating COVID 19 vaccination efforts from an SBC perspective, and also references examples from Djibouti, Yemen and Sudan. Given where we are with the COVID vaccination efforts currently, guidance is provided to strengthen integration, aligned to the newly issued global guidance from WHO and partners.

All COVID-19 vaccine delivery resources

Global Compendium of country knowledge on COVID-19 vaccination

All WHO COVID-19 vaccine resources: toolkit

All WHO COVID-19 technical guidance AR EN ES FR RU ZH

Conferences and trainings

Call for abstracts Vaccine Acceptance Research Network Conference

UNICEF is partnering with Sabin to announce the second annual Vaccination Acceptance Research Network conference, VARN2023, will be held from June 13-15, 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand.

This meeting will be an open, in-person event with facilitation of virtual presentations, as needed. Conference sessions will provide a space for exploration and facilitate the wide dissemination of a growing body of knowledge, practice, and evidence-informed strategies for driving action across the vaccination acceptance and demand ecosystem.

Submission Deadline: January 13, 2023 11:59pm EST.
You can apply in either English or in French.

Learning Collective Initiative in Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership

This initiative series aims to collect and share key learnings, best practices and challenges in planning and implementing COVID-19 vaccination uptake. The sessions cover a range of topics with the November session focusing on best practices to integrate Covid-19 vaccination into Primary Health Care and Essential Immunization. Two countries presented their experiences: Cambodia (integrating Covid-19 vaccination with hypertension and diabetes screening for adults) and Colombia (joint planning of Covid-19 vaccine as one more vaccine of the National Immunization Program for 2023).

Slides and recordings from past sessions as well as registration links for future sessions are available here.

For more information on the topic of integration, see: Country experiences to date on integrating C-19 vaccination

Global webinar:

Integrating COVID 19 demand into routine immunization and primary health care lessons from Syria, Iraq and Bangladesh.

UNICEF global Demand for Immunization and the Middle East and Northern Africa Regional Office invite you to a webinar on demand and integrating COVID-19 demand interventions into routine immunization and primary health care.

Contact: Gloria Lihemo

East and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) Inter-partner SBC webinar on Country Experiences to increase C-19 vaccines demand and uptake.

This knowledge sharing webinar comprises two sessions, the first one taking place on November 23, the second one in January 2023 (dates TBC).

The first session will take stock of good practices and lessons learned from Mozambique, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, South Sudan and Tanzania. Please join the conversation by registering here.

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