African Vaccination Week (AVW) is an annual event celebrated during the last week of April, with the aim of strengthening immunization programmes in the African Region by increasing awareness of the importance of every person’s need and right to be protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.

On 31 January 2017, at the 28th African Union (AU) Summit, Heads of State from across Africa endorsed the Addis Declaration on Immunization (ADI), a historic and timely pledge to ensure that everyone in Africa – regardless of who they are or where they live – receives t