Africa Re-strategize On Immunisation
A new road map for implementing the Addis Declaration on Immunisation (ADI ) has been launched. The event happened in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda recently, at the inaugural Africa Health Forum. The launch followed the decision in January this year, at the 28th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, by heads of government from the continent to approve the ADI, which was earlier drafted and signed by ministers and other top level delegates at the Ministerial Conference on Immunisation in Africa in February 2016. The foreword to the 35-page report informs that the “endorsement paves the way for accelerated implementation of the ADI roadmap to ensure that everyone in Africa, no matter who they are or where they live, can access the vaccines they need to survive and thrive.” While noting that “Africa has made tremendous gains in increasing access to immunisation in the last 15 years,” progress, it says, “has stagnated, leaving one in five African children without access t