Starting at Zero: Strengthening routine immunization for children

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

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FEBRUARY 2024

Reaching Zero-Dose Children @ JSI

Identifying and reaching zero-dose children remains a persistent challenge in achieving global immunization equity. We strive to develop and apply approaches and resources to ensure that vaccines reach zero-dose and under-immunized children, as well as all who need vaccines. JSI is committed to strengthening the foundations of strong routine immunization programs and leveraging new approaches to overcome persistent challenges. #VaccinesWork

Upcoming Events

Pro-Equity Strategies to Reach Zero-Dose Children

February 29, 2024 at 9:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Metrics That Matter: Conceptualizing and Measuring Person-centered Care and Experiences of Care for More Responsive Primary Health Care

March 14, 2024 at 9:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Featured Work

Zeroing in on Zero-Dose: Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Equity and Coverage

We scanned the immunization landscape in four countries: Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda. Then, led by a network of national organizations in each country, we identified critical gaps, challenges, and opportunities for improving identification, reach, monitoring, management, and advocacy for coverage of zero-dose and under-immunized children.

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Immunization Service Experience Is Key to Strengthening Demand and Uptake

Reaching children with immunizations requires more than having vaccines in stock and letting people know about them. There is growing recognition that service experience plays an important role in strengthening demand for vaccination services and ensuring that every child is fully vaccinated or has received all required doses.

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Identifying Key Themes, Opportunities, and Gaps in the Effort to Reach Zero-Dose Children

We conducted landscape analyses in four countries to identify opportunities and knowledge gaps in the effort to reach zero-dose children. Despite differences between findings from Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda, the landscapes offer practitioners common learnings they can apply to their own zero-dose work.

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Recent Publication

Measuring Zero-Dose Children: Reflections on Age Cohort Flexibilities for Targeted Immunization Surveys at the Local Level

We argue that flexibilities with the age cohort for inclusion in targeted surveys at the local level may be an important principle to consider. Learn more from a new article co-authored by our own Nancy Vollmer and published in Vaccines.