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COVID-19 Vaccination in Malawi
Social Listening to Strengthen Vaccine Programmes through Chipatala cha pa Foni (CCPF) in Malawi
To help boost COVID-19 vaccination rates in Malawi, VillageReach is working with the Ministry of Health (MoH) to listen to the concerns of citizens, compile data about misinformation and information gaps, and inform data-driven response strategies to close those gaps. This approach to social...
Malawi Ready to Store, Distribute Incoming COVID-19 Vaccine: Official
Alinafe Kasiya is quoted in an article about Malawi’s readiness to receive and administer incoming COVID-19 vaccines.
Getting PPE To The Last Mile
Originally posted on Skoll.org. As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic bore down in Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2020, Bébé Bola, a community health worker (CHW) in the Pakadjuma township of Kinshasa knew that she and her colleagues lacked the personal...
Malawi receives its first COVID-19 vaccines, and just in time
Today, Malawi became the tenth African country to receive COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility. 360,000 Oxford-AstraZeneca doses arrived at the Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe to great fanfare, as Malawi recently suffered an intense second wave of COVID-19 infections. The Malawi Minister of...Background
In Malawi, VillageReach is supporting government with technical and digital tools, and operational expertise.
Children playing outside of houses in Malawi. (Photo Credit: Jodi-Ann Burey)
How It Works
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Vaccine Operations and Systems Readiness:
- Rapid modeling for delivery from district level to facilities and communities
- Adoption of SC Equity Framework principles when designing distribution plans
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Demand Generation and Management:
- Utilize HCBP solution platform in Malawi – CCPF – to create COVID-19 vaccine demand and understand community preferences and vaccine hesitancy
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Digital Systems and Data Use Implementation:
- Deploy OpenLMIS for COVID-19 vaccines throughout all HFs in-country
- Train workforce in uploading COVID-19 vaccine data and using data for decision-making
- Health Financing and Costing:
- Implement WHO’s COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction and deployment Costing tool (CVIC tool)
Resources
Social Listening To Strengthen Vaccine Programs: Leveraging A National Health Hotline In Malawi
Partners
Government
- The Malawi Ministry of Health
Donors
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Elma Philanthropies
- USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PS)
- Mulago Foundation
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