Ensuring access to immunization

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 Regional Framework aims to accelerate progress towards achievement of global and regional immunization goals and to help stakeholders to better understand how to work together in implementing GVAP in the Region. It was endorsed in 2014 by the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific during its sixty-fifth session and by the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Immunization and Vaccine-preventable Diseases.