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28 March 2023

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Highlights from the Meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization

Report from the Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals.

• The COVID-19 pandemic vaccination response still requires efforts to reduce inequities, reach high-priority groups, and close coverage gaps.

• Disruptive measles and other disease outbreaks highlight the need for catch-up vaccination and for enhancing preparedness for outbreak response.

• To get back on the trajectory for achieving the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) goals and targets, a 3-prong approach to provide catch-up vaccination to children who missed scheduled doses, restore coverage, and strengthen immunization programmes is planned.

• Innovations developed for the COVID-19 response and a pipeline of vaccines and innovative technologies and platforms will support actions to strengthen vaccination across the life course.

• The highest priorities for 2023-2025 are the zero-dose child agenda and routine immunization strengthening (which includes catchup, and with special attention on measles, yellow fever, other outbreak prone diseases, and polio), preparedness and response to outbreaks, revitalization of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, integration of COVID-19 vaccination into routine immunization and Primary Health Care (PHC), and malaria vaccine introduction in African countries.

For more, see Meeting highlights: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/immunization/sage/2023/march-2023/sage_march_2023_meeting_highlights.pdf?sfvrsn=a8e5be9_3

For press release, see: SAGE updates COVID-19 vaccination guidance (who.int)

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