Saving Lives and Livelihoods: Key Impacts, Achievements and Milestones
Saving Lives and Livelihoods: Key Impacts, Achievements and Milestones
The Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative, a partnership between the Africa Centres for Disease Control and the Mastercard Foundation. Here are the key achievements and impact so far.
| June 2021: | Launch of Saving Lives and Livelihoods by Mastercard Foundation and Africa CDC with a commitment to purchase vaccines for at least 65 million people under the $1.5 billion partnership. | |
| July 2021: | Saving Lives and Livelihoods deployed rapid response teams to support vaccination in countries facing the prospect of vaccine expiration, including Sierra Leone, Cameroon, and South Sudan. | |
| Nov. 2021: | The first phase of 15 million vaccines, procured through the Saving Lives and Livelihoods, was distributed across Africa. | |
| In Cameroon, this also included training health workers to address vaccine hesitancy in communities. A total of 265 attendees, representing 43 member states, took part in capacity building workshops in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Morocco. | ||
| Nigeria began to administer Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine. The country benefited from the delivery of over 3.3 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines through the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative. | ||
| Jan. 2022: | Africa CDC started talks with Pfizer for a COVID-19 treatment pill as part of an approach that includes scaling up vaccines and expanding testing to help deal with the pandemic. | |
| Africa CDC partnered with Parsyl, a leading provider of smart vaccine monitoring solutions in emerging markets, to avail 10,000 vaccine monitoring devices to African Union Member States in support of COVID-19 vaccine distribution on the continent. The platform includes a suite of monitoring devices, a mobile app, a web platform, and an optional gateway for automatic data offload. | ||
| Africa CDC trained emergency health responders in South Sudan, and equipped them to detect and report incidents of disease. |
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| South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa launched a new vaccine manufacturing facility expected to boost the country’s capacity to develop its own inoculations against COVID-19 and other diseases. | ||
| Saving Lives and Livelihoods supported the setup of screening and testing sites for fans attending the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations matches to ensure a safe tournament in Cameroun. Volunteers assisted with enhanced surveillance and conducted Rapid Antigen Testing ahead of games at various stadiums. |
Vaccine administration at the Metropolitan Hospital, Nairobi
| Feb. 2022: | Supported the delivery of vaccines to millions more across the continent. More than 12 million COVID-19 vaccines have been officially delivered to 20 countries, namely: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, DRC, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zambia. | |
| Global Afropop star Yemi Alade was appointed Global Ambassador for It’s Up to Us—a pan-African campaign driven by the Africa CDC and Mastercard Foundation. The campaign encourages African youths to unite and get vaccinated against COVID-19. The announcement was marked by the release of a campaign video featuring the singer. | ||
| April 2022: | Focus on Youths – Launch of the Bingwa Initiative, an African Union public-private-youth initiative co-led by Africa CDC and the Women, Gender and Youth Directorate through the Youth Division. The initiative seeks to establish a network of COVID-19 vaccination youth champions across the continent to accelerate the uptake of coronavirus vaccination in Africa. | |
| June 2022: | One year anniversary of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative. | |
| Rollout of Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) – onboarding of implementing partners and playing a crucial role in creating demand for and uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations, as well as supporting other non-pharmaceutical efforts to break the chain of transmission. | ||
| July 2022: | Implementation begins in East Africa, Ethiopia being the first country to officially launch. | |
| Sept. 2022: | Saving Lives and Livelihood participation at the 77th United Nations General Assembly. | |
| Oct. 2022: | The regional roll-out of the Bingwa initiative in Eastern Africa. | |
| Nov. 2022: | Africa CDC Saving Lives and Livelihoods Initiative Expands Implementation in Southern Africa, Zambia being the host country of the regional Office launch implementation in the region graced by the presence of HE. Hakainde Hichilema, President of Zambia. | |
| Feb. 2023: | Deployment of Acceleration Model: 100-100-70 vaccination coverage. The first 100 represents the percentage of vulnerable populations, including those above 60 years and those with co-morbidities, the second 100 represents the coverage in the percentage of essential workers as well as workers in the hospitality industries and 70 coverage of the target population. | |
| March 2023: | Over 50 percent of the population in Africa is fully vaccinated. | |
| Integration of Saving Lives and Livelihoods programme into routine immunization. The pilot phase in Botswana, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia. | ||
| The regional roll-out of the Bingwa initiative in Southern Africa. |
