Improving SIA Quality: Lessons Learned

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Improving SIA QualityLessons Learned

• Partners for Measles Advocacy
• 7th Annual Meeting

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Panel Participants

• Robert Perry (CDC)
• Casey Boudreau (WHO / AFRO)
• Marcy Erskine (CRC)
• Lynda Foray (Sierra Leone MoH)
• Stefan Hoyer (IFRC)
• Monique Petrofsky (CDC)

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The Issues

• What is quality
• High coverage
• Uniform coverage (across districts)
• Few adverse events
• Previous SIAs good quality
• New round of (follow-up) campaigns
• More campaigns integrating ITNs

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Recent Challenges

• SIA coverage low not uniform in all districts
• Outbreaks in year before follow-up SIAs
• Recurring operational / technical problems
• Bumps in the road to integration
• Challenge in bringing all partners to the table
• Integrating with OPV vs. measles SIAs
• Delay in Kenya measles SIA to allow integration
• Ghana measles SIA had low coverage in age groups
  not included in ITN distribution