Vaccine procurement costs comprise a significant share of immunization program costs in low- and middle-income countries, yet not all procured vaccines are administered.
Global chronic health worker shortages and stagnating routine immunization rates require new strategies to increase vaccination coverage and equity. As trained, trusted members of their local communities, community health workers (CHWs) are in a prime position to...
Malawi, like many other countries, faces challenges in providing accessible, affordable, and quality health services to all people. The Malawian policy framework recognizes the value of communities and citizens, as co-creators of health and leaders of localized and...
VillageReach and the Malawi Ministry of Health (MoH), through the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), designed and implemented a community based participatory research (CBPR) and Human Centered Design (HCD) approach to identify context-specific drivers of why...
Leveraging of local private sector capacity for public health supply chains is a key component for building supply chains that are more equitable, people-centered, resilient and sustainable.
As new vaccines are added to RI schedules, the processes identified during the Mashako Plan implementation will continue to inform practices that ensure the strength of immunization systems in the DRC and may be useful to other low-and middle income countries.
Introduction: Community health workers (CHWs) could expand immunization access in under-reached communities by administering vaccines. This rapid review identifies countries where CHWs administered vaccines and synthesizes health systems factors that may contribute to...
There are many challenges that impact the current referral network for Tuberculosis (TB) sputum specimens in Mozambique. In some cases, health facilities are remote and the road infrastructure is poor and at times impassable, leading to delays in laboratory specimen...
