How will we address these challenges?

Vaccine delivery will continue to rely on the country investments and global enablers that have contributed to success to date. At the same time, increasing coverage rates and meeting national and global immunization targets will depend on innovation, learning, and knowledge sharing across the board.

Innovation

Immunization programs are laboratories for innovations in service delivery, like improvements to supply chains that ensure vaccines are properly stored and reliably available where they are needed and better home-based health records and electronic registries to help families and health workers track the vaccines individual children have received and ensure they get fully vaccinated.¹

These innovations can be scaled up to improve vaccine coverage in other settings. They can also be adapted to improve the delivery of other services such as antenatal care.

Learning and knowledge sharing

Some countries have achieved and sustained high immunization coverage, despite these and other challenges. Exemplars in Global Health Vaccine Delivery aims to learn from their experiences to help other countries strengthen their delivery systems.