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 Feb...
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| author | Kwame Amponsa-Achiano Joseph Asamoah Frimpong Danielle Barradas Delia Akosua Bandoh Ernest Kenu |
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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 | doaj.art-1065217b8d304985989f5c0c144df0e32022-12-23T13:42:28ZengCenters for Disease Control and PreventionEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-60592022-11-01281323223710.3201/eid2813.221044Leveraging Lessons Learned from Yellow Fever and Polio Immunization Campaigns during COVID-19 Pandemic, Ghana, 2021Kwame Amponsa-AchianoJoseph Asamoah FrimpongDanielle BarradasDelia Akosua BandohErnest Kenu 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. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/13/22-1044_articleyellow feverpolioCOVID-19vaccine deploymentGlobal Health Security AgendaSARS-CoV-2 |
| spellingShingle | Kwame Amponsa-Achiano Joseph Asamoah Frimpong Danielle Barradas Delia Akosua Bandoh Ernest Kenu Leveraging Lessons Learned from Yellow Fever and Polio Immunization Campaigns during COVID-19 Pandemic, Ghana, 2021 Emerging Infectious Diseases yellow fever polio COVID-19 vaccine deployment Global Health Security Agenda SARS-CoV-2 |
| 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 | yellow fever polio COVID-19 vaccine deployment Global Health Security Agenda SARS-CoV-2 |
| url | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/13/22-1044_article |
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