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Advocacy
Accelerated Measles Mortality
Reduction Improving Routine
Immunizations in Africa
AMMRIRIA
The Measles Partnership
Sabin Vaccine Institute
Sustainable Immunization
Financing Program
• Seeks to increase the amount and proportion
of government funding for routine
immunization system activities and to assure
governments obtain and control any needed
long-term funding for national immunization
programs
• Active since 2008 in 15 countries- Cambodia,
Cameroon, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Nepal, Nigeria,
Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leon, Sri Lanka,
Uganda
Sabin Vaccine Institute
Sustainable Immunization Financing
Program
• Hold colloquia, peer exchanges with
parliamentarians, Ministries of Health and
Ministries of Finance to explore
immunization budgeting and funding
strategies
• To date parliaments in five countries – Sierra
Leone, Senegal, DR Congo, Cambodia and
Nepal – have used resources provided by the
SIF program to increase annual health
budgets.
AMMRIRIA
2010 Activities
• President Carter communicated with 9 Heads
of State in the region
• President Carter communicated with the
African Union Chair Bingu Wa Mutharika
(President of Malawi) and also with the UN
Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and others
around the MDG Summit
• Op Ed
• Advocacy video for the Canadian Conference
on Global Health
AMMRIRIA Advocacy
Activities for 2011
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President Carter
Mrs. Carter
Africa Progress Panel
Closer coordination with SVI
Lessons
• More voices – one message
• The measles message is still missing in
many places where it should be included
• Rubella message will need to be harmonized
with the measles message
• Develop sustainable advocates within subSaharan Africa
Moving Forward
• Form a Communications Advocacy
Committee among the core partners to
ensure closer coordination of messaging
between existing partners
– Develop an advocacy plan with
measurable milestones
– Agree on common messages, targets and
messengers
– Develop country specific strategies for
effective interactions with individual
countries
Moving Forward
• Engage additional organizations involved
with immunization
– MSF, Lions Club International, World
Vision, Oxfam, Catholic Relief Services,
Save the Children, etc.
• Ultimate goal should be coordinated global
advocacy on immunizations