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Leveraging Lessons Learned from Yellow Fever and Polio Immunization Campaigns during COVID-19 Pandemic, Ghana, 2021
Ghana is a yellow fever–endemic country and experienced a vaccine-derived polio outbreak in July 2019. A reactive polio vaccination campaign was conducted in September 2019 and preventive yellow fever campaign in November 2020. On March 12, 2020, Ghana confirmed its first COVID-19 cases. During Febr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9745221/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36502407 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2813.221044 |
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author | Amponsa-Achiano, Kwame Frimpong, Joseph Asamoah Barradas, Danielle Bandoh, Delia Akosua Kenu, Ernest |
author_facet | Amponsa-Achiano, Kwame Frimpong, Joseph Asamoah Barradas, Danielle Bandoh, Delia Akosua Kenu, Ernest |
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description | Ghana is a yellow fever–endemic country and experienced a vaccine-derived polio outbreak in July 2019. A reactive polio vaccination campaign was conducted in September 2019 and preventive yellow fever campaign in November 2020. On March 12, 2020, Ghana confirmed its first COVID-19 cases. During February–August 2021, Ghana received 1,515,450 COVID-19 vaccines through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access initiative and other donor agencies. We describe how systems and infrastructure used for polio and yellow fever vaccine deployment and the lessons learned in those campaigns were used to deploy COVID-19 vaccines. During March–August 2021, a total of 1,424,008 vaccine doses were administered in Ghana. By using existing vaccination and health systems, officials in Ghana were able to deploy COVID-19 vaccines within a few months with <5% vaccine wastage and minimal additional resources despite the short shelf-life of vaccines received. These strategies were essential in saving lives in a resource-limited country. |
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spelling | pubmed-97452212022-12-19 Leveraging Lessons Learned from Yellow Fever and Polio Immunization Campaigns during COVID-19 Pandemic, Ghana, 2021 Amponsa-Achiano, Kwame Frimpong, Joseph Asamoah Barradas, Danielle Bandoh, Delia Akosua Kenu, Ernest Emerg Infect Dis Clinical and Health Services Delivery and Impact Ghana is a yellow fever–endemic country and experienced a vaccine-derived polio outbreak in July 2019. A reactive polio vaccination campaign was conducted in September 2019 and preventive yellow fever campaign in November 2020. On March 12, 2020, Ghana confirmed its first COVID-19 cases. During February–August 2021, Ghana received 1,515,450 COVID-19 vaccines through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access initiative and other donor agencies. We describe how systems and infrastructure used for polio and yellow fever vaccine deployment and the lessons learned in those campaigns were used to deploy COVID-19 vaccines. During March–August 2021, a total of 1,424,008 vaccine doses were administered in Ghana. By using existing vaccination and health systems, officials in Ghana were able to deploy COVID-19 vaccines within a few months with <5% vaccine wastage and minimal additional resources despite the short shelf-life of vaccines received. These strategies were essential in saving lives in a resource-limited country. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2022-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9745221/ /pubmed/36502407 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2813.221044 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Emerging Infectious Diseases is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Clinical and Health Services Delivery and Impact Amponsa-Achiano, Kwame Frimpong, Joseph Asamoah Barradas, Danielle Bandoh, Delia Akosua Kenu, Ernest Leveraging Lessons Learned from Yellow Fever and Polio Immunization Campaigns during COVID-19 Pandemic, Ghana, 2021 |
title | Leveraging Lessons Learned from Yellow Fever and Polio Immunization Campaigns during COVID-19 Pandemic, Ghana, 2021 |
title_full | Leveraging Lessons Learned from Yellow Fever and Polio Immunization Campaigns during COVID-19 Pandemic, Ghana, 2021 |
title_fullStr | Leveraging Lessons Learned from Yellow Fever and Polio Immunization Campaigns during COVID-19 Pandemic, Ghana, 2021 |
title_full_unstemmed | Leveraging Lessons Learned from Yellow Fever and Polio Immunization Campaigns during COVID-19 Pandemic, Ghana, 2021 |
title_short | Leveraging Lessons Learned from Yellow Fever and Polio Immunization Campaigns during COVID-19 Pandemic, Ghana, 2021 |
title_sort | leveraging lessons learned from yellow fever and polio immunization campaigns during covid-19 pandemic, ghana, 2021 |
topic | Clinical and Health Services Delivery and Impact |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9745221/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36502407 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2813.221044 |
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