VARN2023

VARN2023 Key Findings

1. Put vaccine equity and inclusion at the heart of programming to improve vaccine confidence, demand and delivery, and reach diverse and marginalized communities.
2. Prioritize communities in immunization service delivery through people-centered approaches and tools
3. Encourage innovative, community-centric solutions and programs for improved routine immunization coverage and to reduce the number of zero-dose children
4. Strengthen vaccination across the life-course through building vaccine demand and service integration will contribute to pandemic preparedness and maximize the benefits of future vaccines for all

Put vaccine equity and inclusion at the heart of programming to improve vaccine confidence, demand and delivery, and reach diverse and marginalized communities.

• Social inequities, including due to gender, remain a barrier to immunize marginalized groups and contributes to growing numbers of zero-dose children
• Achieving vaccine equity is complex, but it is the pathway through which
  to build vaccine confidence, demand, and uptake for all

Prioritize communities in immunization service delivery through people-centered approaches and tools

• Behavior science can help build local capacities to generate insights and design and assess equitable evidence-informed solutions
• Community perceptions and experiences of immunization need to be heard by the health sector and policymakers to build trust and combat misinformation
• A diverse range of people-centered approaches can be used to empower communities and health workers and co-develop strategies to improve vaccine confidence, demand, and access
• Improving the immunization services experience is important to strengthen trust in
  health systems and build motivation to improve vaccine demand and uptake

Encourage innovative, community-centric solutions and programs for improved routine immunization coverage and to reduce the number of zero-dose children

• Social influencers, community mobilizers, and action groups are effective at increasing community-level vaccine demand through their influence over a key audiences, which may be related to gender, age group, peer group, work, or skills
• Keeping track of parents’ and child caregivers’ journey to vaccinate children can help identify challenges and opportunities that can be addressed by the public and private sectors to increase vaccination access
• Given competing health priorities at the community level, a community-oriented primary care model can generate vaccine demand by identifying an integrated package of health services that includes vaccination

Strengthen vaccination across the life course through building vaccine demand and service integration will contribute to pandemic preparedness and maximize the benefits of future vaccines for all

• Building vaccine confidence and demand is critical to strengthen vaccination across the life-course, which will contribute to pandemic preparedness and maximize the benefits of future vaccines for all
• Integrating life-course vaccines with primary healthcare and other elements of service
  delivery can boost demand, uptake, and service delivery