What’s in this issue?

12th December is International Universal Health Coverage (UHC) day. In this issue of The Double Loop, we share a series of short experiences and insights relating to Primary Health Care (PHC) and immunization shared by participants as part of the Special Event: Immunization on the road to Primary Health Care (PHC) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) hosted by The Geneva Learning Foundation on 12th December 2022, in partnership with Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) Working Group on Strategic Priority 1 (SP1, Immunization Programmes for Primary Health Care and Universal Health Coverage). The experiences have been chosen to illustrate some of the challenges and successes experienced by frontline health workers as they integrate immunization and primary health care.

How can I watch the Special Event?

The Special Event includes:

• experiences and insights from health staff shared live; and
• the first public presentation of the Immunization for Primary Health Care Framework for Action developed by IA2030 Working Group 1

Watch the Special Event via the link:

Special Event: Universal Health Coverage (UHC)

Sharing your experience and insights

Your experience and insights help other members of the Movement for IA2030. Click on the link at the end of each section to share:

• You choose if you wish to share anonymously or if you want your contribution be named.
• You can also share a challenge that you need help with, make a comment or a suggestion for improvement.
• We will include insightful comments, stories and learnings in the text, making The Double Loop a living document
• We may also share your comments, stories and learnings via the Insights on Insights page. Visit Insights on Insights to see more reactions from health workers.

If you are a donor, partner, or researcher interested in these insights, we encourage you to share your thoughts or write directly to Ian Steed, Insights Unit Editor.

What is your experience of integration of immunization and primary health care?

Do you feel that immunization and primary health services are well integrated where you work? Or are there difficulties and blockages to overcome?

CLICK HERE TO SHARE YOUR ANSWER

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Svea Closser writes:

“We know that integration can be really tough given single disease monitoring, funding, etc. I think as many ideas as can be presented, the easier it may be to think of context specific solutions!”

Svea Closser is Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health