The Ministry of Health has created a road map for the nation’s transition to self-financing vaccination programs.
This will guarantee continued and improved access to immunizations and immunization programs, as well as manage and fully finance them starting in 2030.
Along with strengthening the health sector, the road plan offers guidance for the gradual and steady transition from donor-supported immunization services, like vaccine supply and deployment, to domestically funded ones.
This was said by Dr. Naziru Tanko Mohammed, the Deputy Programme Manager of the Expanded Programme on Immunization, last Thursday at the Financing Immunization Advocacy Response (FAIR) Project launch in Accra.
The one-year project is an effort by the non-governmental organization Health for Future Generation (HFFG) with the goal of bolstering immunization funding.
According to Dr. Mohammed, Ghana has one of the most effective and significant immunization programs on the continent.
Dr. Mohammed added that the nation had eradicated neonatal tetanus in 2011 and that there had not been a WPV case of polio since 2008.
In addition to stating that there had been a significant decline in pediatric pneumonia and diarrhea infections, among other things, he said there had been no recorded deaths in the nation from measles between 2003 and 2021.
In order to safeguard and preserve children’s futures, HFFG Executive Director Cecilia Senoo pleaded with the government to disburse its co-financing before the end of the first quarter of this year.
Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, the Techiman North member of parliament and a member of the health committee, called the project important and encouraged the government to fulfill its duty.
Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s in-country coordinator, Stephen Atasige, stated that his organization had helped more than 300 organizations in 60 countries during the last 25 years.
