GIVS goals
By 2010 or earlier
- Increase coverage. Countries will reach at least 90% national vaccination coverage and at least 80% vaccination coverage in every district or equivalent administrative unit.
- Reduce measles mortality. Globally, mortality due to measles will have been reduced by 90% compared to the 2000 level.
By 2015 or earlier (as the case may be)
- Sustain coverage. The vaccination coverage goal reached in 2010 will have been sustained.
- Reduce morbidity and mortality. Global childhood morbidity and mortality due to vaccine-preventable diseases will have been reduced by at least two thirds compared to 2000 levels.
- Ensure access to vaccines of assured quality. Every person eligible for immunization included in national programmes will have been offered vaccination with vaccines of assured quality according to established national schedules.
- Introduce new vaccines. Immunization with newly introduced vaccines will have been offered to the entire eligible population within five years of the introduction of these new vaccines in national programmes.
- Ensure capacity for surveillance and monitoring. All countries will have developed the capacity at all levels to conduct case-based surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases, supported by laboratory confirmation where necessary, in order to measure vaccine coverage accurately and use these data appropriately.
- Strengthen systems. All national immunization plans will have been formulated as an integral component of sector-wide plans for human resources, financing and logistics.
- Assure sustainability. All national immunization plans will have been formulated, costed and implemented so as to ensure that human resources, funding and supplies are adequate.
Last updated: 8 January 2009