Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 Dec;28(13):S232-S237. doi: 10.3201/eid2813.221044.
Ghana is a yellow fever-endemic country and experienced a vaccine-derived polio outbreak in July 2019. A reactive polio vaccination campaign was conducted in September 2019 and preventive yellow fever campaign in November 2020. On March 12, 2020, Ghana confirmed its first COVID-19 cases. During February-August 2021, Ghana received 1,515,450 COVID-19 vaccines through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access initiative and other donor agencies. We describe how systems and infrastructure used for polio and yellow fever vaccine deployment and the lessons learned in those campaigns were used to deploy COVID-19 vaccines. During March-August 2021, a total of 1,424,008 vaccine doses were administered in Ghana. By using existing vaccination and health systems, officials in Ghana were able to deploy COVID-19 vaccines within a few months with <5% vaccine wastage and minimal additional resources despite the short shelf-life of vaccines received. These strategies were essential in saving lives in a resource-limited country.
加纳是一个黄热病流行国家，2019 年 7 月发生了一起疫苗衍生脊灰病毒疫情。2019 年 9 月开展了脊灰疫情应对疫苗接种活动，2020 年 11 月开展了预防黄热病疫苗接种活动。2020 年 3 月 12 日，加纳确诊首例新冠肺炎病例。2021 年 2 月至 8 月，加纳通过新冠肺炎疫苗全球获取机制和其他捐助机构收到了 151.545 万剂新冠肺炎疫苗。本文描述了加纳如何利用部署脊灰和黄热病疫苗的系统和基础设施以及这些活动中吸取的经验教训来部署新冠肺炎疫苗。2021 年 3 月至 8 月，加纳共接种了 142.4 万剂疫苗。加纳官员利用现有的疫苗接种和卫生系统，在几个月内成功地部署了新冠肺炎疫苗，疫苗浪费率不到 5%，且尽管收到的疫苗有效期较短，但几乎没有额外的资源投入。在资源有限的国家，这些策略对于拯救生命至关重要。
