Expanding COVID-19 vaccination to reach at-risk populations in Guinea

Conakry – Since March 2022, Guinea has been gradually integrating COVID-19 vaccination into its expanded routine immunization programme to both protect populations at risk and strengthen the local health systems.  

With the changing COVID-19 epidemiology over the past three years, World Health Organization has encouraged countries to make vaccination against the virus part of essential health services and primary health care. Guinea is among 16 countries in the African region to have integrated COVID-19 vaccination into routine immunizations.