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Africa CDC launches 2026-2030 vaccination strategy as immunisation rates stall

With coverage failing to keep pace with population growth, Africa's disease control agency outlines five priorities to reverse declining vaccination rates.

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What to know

  • Africa's routine childhood immunisation coverage has stalled: in 2025, 7.1 million children under one year old (15.6% of the cohort) received no routine vaccines, while measles and other preventable disease outbreaks are rising.
  • The Africa CDC's new Continental Immunisation Strategy 2026-2030 identifies five priorities: predictable domestic financing to reduce dependence on donor cycles; digital immunisation registries linked to birth and health systems; extending vaccination to adolescents and pregnant women; and addressing the fiscal squeeze from debt servicing and competing crises.
  • Vaccination provides strong economic returns (US$54 per dollar invested), but success depends on countries' ability to finance and deliver services reliably, not on vaccine availability.

“Predictable domestic financing gives countries more control over priorities, makes programmes less vulnerable to donor cycles and strengthens accountability to citizens.”

Immunisation practitioners and researchers (The Conversation), Strategy contributors · AllAfrica ↗ · Sep 23

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    Strategy identifies financing and digital systems as critical priorities

    The strategy emphasizes that the greatest threat to immunisation is not lack of effective vaccines but countries' ability to finance and deliver them reliably. It highlights the need for predictable domestic financing and electronic immunisation registries linked to birth registration and national health systems, citing Rwanda's 2022 integration of vaccine registry with electronic birth systems as a model.

    “The greatest threat to immunisation in Africa is not whether effective vaccines exist, but whether countries can finance and deliver them reliably.”
    — Immunisation practitioners and researchers (The Conversation)
  2. background

    Vaccination coverage deterioration documented across Africa — Data from 2025 shows 7.1 million African children under one year old (15.6% of the age group) did not receive even a single routine vaccine dose. Measles and other vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks are increasing, driven by immunity gaps, conflict, displacement and vaccine hesitancy.

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    Africa CDC launches Continental Immunisation Strategy 2026-2030

    The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has announced a new continental strategy addressing six areas of immunisation delivery. Immunisation practitioners and researchers contributing to the strategy identified five priorities needed for success across all six areas.

    “Africa has reached an important moment in its immunisation journey. Coverage is not rising fast enough to keep pace with population growth, persistent inequities and a growing number of vaccines.”
    — Immunisation practitioners and researchers (The Conversation)
    1. 1 outlet Africa: Vaccination Rates Are Falling in Africa, but a New Strategy Aims to Turn Things Around. Five Things It Needs to Get Right

      first by AllAfrica, 4h ago

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  1. 3 outlets Vaccination rates are falling in Africa, but a new strategy aims to turn things around. Five things it needs to get right

    first by tolerance.ca, 18h ago · also Modern Ghana, The Conversation