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Progress with COVID-19 vaccination in the WHO African Region in 2021
INTRODUCTION: as of end 2021, ten different vaccines have received Emergency use listing by the World Health Organisation. The vaccination response to the COVID pandemic started in February 2021 in the WHO African Region. WHO proposed a national coverage target of fully vaccinated population of 40%...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9474845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36159031 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2022.41.2.34102 |
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author | Masresha, Balcha Poy, Alain Weldegebriel, Goitom Mbuyita, Selemani Fussum, Daniel Bwaka, Ado Paluku, Gilson Atuhebwe, Phionah Mihigo, Richard Impouma, Benido |
author_facet | Masresha, Balcha Poy, Alain Weldegebriel, Goitom Mbuyita, Selemani Fussum, Daniel Bwaka, Ado Paluku, Gilson Atuhebwe, Phionah Mihigo, Richard Impouma, Benido |
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description | INTRODUCTION: as of end 2021, ten different vaccines have received Emergency use listing by the World Health Organisation. The vaccination response to the COVID pandemic started in February 2021 in the WHO African Region. WHO proposed a national coverage target of fully vaccinated population of 40% by the end of December 2021. This manuscript attempts to review the progress in the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccination in the African Region. METHODS: we analysed the aggregate COVID-19 vaccine uptake and utilization data from the immunisation monitoring databases set up by countries and shared with the WHO Regional Office for Africa. RESULTS: as of 31 December 2021, a total of 340,663,156 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were received in 46 countries in the African Region. The weekly average doses administered was 4,069,934 throughout the year. In the same period, a total of 114,498,980 persons received at least one dose, and 71,862,108 people were fully vaccinated, amounting to 6.6% of the total population in the Region. Only 5 countries attained the target of 40% full vaccination coverage. Disaggregated information was not available from all countries on the number of persons vaccinated by gender, and according to the priority population groupings. A total of 102,046 cases of adverse events following immunisation (AEFIs) were reported among which 6,260 (6.1%) were labelled as severe AEFIs. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 vaccination coverage remains very low in the African Region, with all but 5 countries missing the 40% coverage target as of December 2021. Countries, donors and partners should mobilise political will and resources towards the attainment of the coverage targets. Countries will need to implement vaccination efforts using tailored approaches to reach unreached populations. The reporting gaps indicate the need to invest on efforts to improve the capture, analysis and use of more granular program data. |
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spelling | pubmed-94748452022-09-23 Progress with COVID-19 vaccination in the WHO African Region in 2021 Masresha, Balcha Poy, Alain Weldegebriel, Goitom Mbuyita, Selemani Fussum, Daniel Bwaka, Ado Paluku, Gilson Atuhebwe, Phionah Mihigo, Richard Impouma, Benido Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: as of end 2021, ten different vaccines have received Emergency use listing by the World Health Organisation. The vaccination response to the COVID pandemic started in February 2021 in the WHO African Region. WHO proposed a national coverage target of fully vaccinated population of 40% by the end of December 2021. This manuscript attempts to review the progress in the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccination in the African Region. METHODS: we analysed the aggregate COVID-19 vaccine uptake and utilization data from the immunisation monitoring databases set up by countries and shared with the WHO Regional Office for Africa. RESULTS: as of 31 December 2021, a total of 340,663,156 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were received in 46 countries in the African Region. The weekly average doses administered was 4,069,934 throughout the year. In the same period, a total of 114,498,980 persons received at least one dose, and 71,862,108 people were fully vaccinated, amounting to 6.6% of the total population in the Region. Only 5 countries attained the target of 40% full vaccination coverage. Disaggregated information was not available from all countries on the number of persons vaccinated by gender, and according to the priority population groupings. A total of 102,046 cases of adverse events following immunisation (AEFIs) were reported among which 6,260 (6.1%) were labelled as severe AEFIs. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 vaccination coverage remains very low in the African Region, with all but 5 countries missing the 40% coverage target as of December 2021. Countries, donors and partners should mobilise political will and resources towards the attainment of the coverage targets. Countries will need to implement vaccination efforts using tailored approaches to reach unreached populations. The reporting gaps indicate the need to invest on efforts to improve the capture, analysis and use of more granular program data. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9474845/ /pubmed/36159031 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2022.41.2.34102 Text en Copyright: Balcha Masresha et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Masresha, Balcha Poy, Alain Weldegebriel, Goitom Mbuyita, Selemani Fussum, Daniel Bwaka, Ado Paluku, Gilson Atuhebwe, Phionah Mihigo, Richard Impouma, Benido Progress with COVID-19 vaccination in the WHO African Region in 2021 |
title | Progress with COVID-19 vaccination in the WHO African Region in 2021 |
title_full | Progress with COVID-19 vaccination in the WHO African Region in 2021 |
title_fullStr | Progress with COVID-19 vaccination in the WHO African Region in 2021 |
title_full_unstemmed | Progress with COVID-19 vaccination in the WHO African Region in 2021 |
title_short | Progress with COVID-19 vaccination in the WHO African Region in 2021 |
title_sort | progress with covid-19 vaccination in the who african region in 2021 |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9474845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36159031 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2022.41.2.34102 |
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