Immunization Pilot’s Success Paves the Way for Scale

We are pleased to report that the results of our 6-month pilot program focused on driving demand for lifesaving childhood vaccines has exceeded expectations, and we are ready to roll immunization services out across our operations in Uganda and Kenya. In Q3, we found vaccination default rates were 35% in Uganda—including 4.4% ‘zero dose’ children, who had never been vaccinated—while 26% and 1% were the respective figures for Kenya. But, as a result of our interventions, 75% of defaulters in Uganda and 83% in Kenya received all required immunizations—substantially higher than our 50% immunization completion rate target. We also found that the top reasons people defaulted on immunizations in Q3 were because of health facility stock-outs (30%) and fears of side effects (22%). Made possible by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, we’ve already made strong progress training 86% (2,412) of the 2,800 CHWs in Uganda that we targeted for training by the end of the year.
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