Regional strategic plan for immunization 2014–2020
Regional Committee for Africa, Sixty-fourth session

Overview
The Regional Committee, Having carefully examined Document AFR/RC64/5 entitled “Regional Strategic Plan for Immunization 2014–2020”; Recognizing the importance of immunization as one of the most cost-effective interventions in public health; Reaffirming resolution WHA 65.17 that commits Member States to apply the vision and strategies of the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) and to allocate adequate human and financial resources to achieve vaccination goals; Noting that, although there has been some progress in improving routine vaccination coverage in the African Region during the period 2006–2009, a significantly high number of children are still missed every year and should be vaccinated if the agreed regional and global targets are to be met; Concerned that the current levels of national budgetary allocation to vaccination programmes cannot sustain the progress made in the introduction and scaling up of new vaccines that are more expensive than the traditional vaccines.