Originally posted on The Seattle Times. Improving routine vaccination for every child, no matter where they live, is one of the world’s most pressing health challenges. Big challenges demand bold solutions – and sometimes the most effective solutions are found by...
The Let’s talk about vaccines! project is a multisite community-based participatory project by VillageReach that uses the human-centered design approach to identify the barriers and co-create solutions to address under-two routine immunization access and uptake in...
This Midline Evaluation Brief presents a summary of the midline evaluation conducted in June 2023 by the University of the Western Cape and the University of Cape Town for VillageReach’s Let’s Talk About Vaccines (Bate-Papo Vacina in Portuguese) pilot...
A midline evaluation from the University of Western Cape and the University of Cape Town has found that a community-led approach to immunization piloted by VillageReach in rural Mozambique is promising to improve key immunization outcomes. The Let’s Talk About...
Where We Work | Program Let’s Talk About Vaccines! By prioritizing caregiver and health worker voices, we explore the key drivers and solutions for immunization dropout in children in Malawi. < Return to Global Experience Map Oct 6, 2022 | ...
Where We Work | Program Let’s Talk About Vaccines! This study seeks to amplify the voices of caregivers and health workers and uncover new insights by using principles of community-based participatory research and human-centered design to increase childhood...
Fernanda Mussa, a health professional in Namorroi, Zambézia, was frustrated by the lack of community involvement in how immunization services were provided, feeling like more could be done to reach caregivers with live-saving vaccines. But now, that has changed. The...
What would it look like if communities were involved in designing and implementing the health care solutions they need to thrive? Bate-Papo Vacina! (Let’s Talk About Vaccines) aims to find out. We know that developing top-down solutions is not enough. When...
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...
How VillageReach worked with Digital Medic and other partners to develop pictorial education cards for caregivers of young children to reduce childhood routine immunization dropout rates in Zambézia, Mozambique
