Luanda - Angola currently has 2020 health units offering routine vaccinations, with the aim of increasing the services supply and to achieve high levels of vaccination coverage, the national coordinator of the Expanded Vaccination Program (PAV), Alda de Sousa, has said.
Speaking to Angola National Radio RNA, the PAV director said the network of vaccination posts has increased from 403 in 2020 to 1,617 in 2023.
In order to achieve an increase in vaccination coverage above from 80 percent to 95 percent for measles vaccine, a plan has been created to reach children who have never had access to vaccination, without giving details.
He said that the results are encouraging, allowing the number of unvaccinated children to fall from more than 410,000 in 2022 to 302,000 in 2023.
“We have other vaccination strategies, which is to offer services with mobile and advanced teams, so we work with traditional entities to help us locate them and vaccinate children as early as possible,” he said. EVC/PA/AMP
