Eliminating maternal and neonatal tetanus
Overview
In May 2012, the World Health Assembly endorsed the Global Vaccine Action Plan 2011–2020 (GVAP), a global framework that builds on its predecessor, the Global Immunization Vision and Strategy 2006–2015 (GIVS). GVAP offers a broad range of strategies and activities and establishes new goals for achieving the Decade of Vaccines’ vision of a world in which all individuals and communities enjoy lives free from vaccine-preventable diseases.
A Regional Framework has been developed to incorporate all global immunization goals, define region-specific goals, and translate the strategies and activities recommended by GVAP to the context of the Western Pacific Region. The immunization goals for the Western Pacific Region are:
- Sustaining polio-free status
- Maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination
- Measles elimination
- Accelerated control of hepatitis B
- Rubella elimination
- Introduction of new vaccines
- Meeting regional vaccination coverage targets
- Accelerated control of Japanese encephalitis
Key facts
35 countries in WPR achieved maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination
1 country remaining in the region to achieve maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination