Category: Stories
Quick access to all the country stories featured in the 2011 Progress Report
- Afghanistan
As is the case in many fragile states, Afghanistan’s civil society organisations do much of the work of providing basic health services to the population... - Armenia
A few years ago, Armenia was divided over whether to introduce rotavirus vaccine into its national immunisation programme.. - Bangladesh
Immunisation charts on the wall of the Upazila Health Complex in Kapasia, Bangladesh, tell a clear story: a steady rise in the delivery of pentavalent vaccine... - Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria
In December 2011, a young boy is immunised at a hospital in N’Djamena, Chad, with a new vaccine against meningitis A.. - Georgia
Georgia, one of the 16 countries graduating from GAVI support, plans to use information campaigns to further boost its immunisation coverage... - Honduras
Honduras has achieved what many other countries only aspire to: a near- perfect DTP3 vaccination coverage rate of 98%... - India
Two Indian states, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, both with high DTP3 immunisation coverage and reliable vaccine delivery systems, started rolling out the pentavalent vaccine in December 2011.
- Kenya
Hundreds of infants in Kenya received their first shots against pneumococcal disease in early 2011... - Madagascar
Madagascar is one of just seven countries that managed to reduce its under-five mortality rate by more than 60% over the 20-year period... - Malawi
In remote villages such as Chifuchambewa in eastern Malawi, vaccination experts from the Ministry of Health rely heavily on village leaders... - Nepal
Nepal exemplifies how a harmonised health systems approach can deliver results. With a 65% drop in the number of deaths in children under five since 1990, Nepal is on track... - Papua New Guinea
In spite of the challenges of political instability and a lack of resources and infrastructure, three small countries in the Western Pacific region are leading the way... - The Sudan
In July 2011, the Sudan became the first GAVI-eligible country in Africa to introduce a new vaccine to protect children from rotavirus... - Uganda
In July 2011, Uganda announced that it had eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus thanks to the efforts of its Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination campaign team...