SEE Health Network joins the celebration of the European Immunization Week to highlight the crucial importance of vaccination in the modern world. Vaccination is a public good and it is a right and responsibility of every citizen and we all as society and communities can benefit from. This year the work of the nurses and midwifes, who are at the forefront of the vaccination points and are a trusted source of information on vaccination, is highlighted.
nnnnSEEHN Member States at national level show a widenvariation in vaccination coverage and share common challenges that are similarnto the rest of the European countries related to vaccination coverage,navailability, quality of vaccines, etc.
nnnnIn this context, SEEHN placed high on the agenda tonstrengthen immunization. Steady efforts have been channeled over the last 3nyears in partnership with WHO EURO and the SEEHN RHDC on Communicable Diseases hostednby Albania – SECID.
nnnnGovernments within the South-eastern Europe HealthnMinisterial Meeting on Immunization, that took place in Podgorica, Montenegro,non 20 February 2018,endorsed a Statementnof Intent that reiterated commitment to the European Vaccine ActionnPlan.
nnnnFurthermore, over the last couple of years SEEHN received comprehensive guidance from WHO EURO and SEEHN RHDC SECID over a series of Regional meetings on the development of a regional roadmap providing a foundation upon which joint action, partnership and collaboration can be strengthened and scaled-up to tackle shared immunization programme challenges.
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