USAID October 5, 2023
As governments, donors, and program implementers reflect on key lessons from the COVID-19 response to strengthen and build health systems that can withstand future pandemics and health crises, these early adopters are identifying ways to transition from emergency to routine COVID-19 vaccination and testing and treatment within the primary health care system. WHO and UNICEF have produced guidance to assist countries with mainstreaming their COVID-19 vaccination activities into primary health care, immunization programs and other essential health services. The USAID integration definition builds on the WHO/UNICEF vaccination integration definition.1 WHO’s six building blocks on health systems provide a useful framework for countries to consider how to plan integration and/or coordination between COVID-19 programming, immunization programmes, and the broader health system....
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