A three-day workshop to evaluate vaccination coverage in the country opened in Yaounde on Wednesday January 28, 2015.

Cameroon received financial assistance from the GAVI Alliance for the strengthening of vaccination services and the health system in 2001 for a period of five years (2007 to 2011). The programme was however interrupted in 2010 and the remaining funds were used for a transitional re-programming of the Expanded Vaccination Programme (PEV).

It is in this light that a three-day workshop to evaluate the GAVI transitional programme (GAVI-RSS) and the Additional Technical Support Mission opened in Yaounde on Wednesday, January 28, 2015, in Yaounde. Speaking at the occasion, the Secretary General in the Ministry of Public Health, Pr. Sinata Koulla-Shiro, called on participants to work hand-in-glove in order to come out with concrete results in 2015.

The objective of the meeting is to carry out an evaluation of the re-programming of the strengthening of the health system (GAVI-RSS) and the Additional Technical Assistance Mission (GAVI-AMP). The joint meeting between GAVI-RSS and the technical assistance mission GAVI-AMP will enable the participants evaluate the level of attainment of the objectives of the two programmes and their contributions in the improvement of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation in Cameroon in 2014.