When introduced and scaled-up, these vaccines will have the potential to save lives of approximately 60,000 children under 5 years of age and avert around 2.4 million cases of severe pneumonia, meningitis, and diarrhea across the four countries cumulatively from2024 to 2030*, significantly advancing each country’s progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal for child survival.
To ensure the four governments receive necessary support towards introducing PCV and Rotavirus vaccine, the Mérieux Foundation, Every Breath Counts, Save the Children, the Malaria Consortium, and theInternational Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), are bringing together national, regional, and international stakeholders to address challenges and explore solutions to introduction and scale-up.
During this workshop, the four health ministries shared their plans for PCV and Rotavirus vaccine introduction, addressing issues of financing, vaccine procurement and delivery infrastructure, public messaging, healthcare workforce capacity, safetymonitoring, and caregiver behaviors.
Regional and international health and opment agencies discussed the latest epidemiologicalevidence, lives saved analysis, financing options, Gavi application support, and best practices taking into account the unique challenges of fragile and conflictaffected countries for the successful introduction and sustained high coverage of PCV and Rotavirus vaccine.
*This estimate does not include the lives saved from catch-up campaigns for children 1-4 years.