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AU Champion for Maternal and Child Health — Go the Extra Mile
The Three Zeros

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Zero Unvaccinated Children

Every child identified, reached and protected.

No child is left without age-appropriate immunisation. The priority is to identify and reach zero-dose children and communities systematically missed by routine immunisation services.

The President greeting two young girls at a public ceremony

The political promise

No child is left behind because of where they are born, live or the barriers they face.

Why this one

The reasoning

No child is left without age-appropriate immunisation. The priority is to identify and reach zero-dose children and communities systematically missed by routine immunisation services.

Headline measure: Age-appropriate immunisation coverage and zero-dose follow-up

The pathway to zero

What it requires

  1. 01Identify and reach zero-dose children
  2. 02DTP1 as the continental tracer
  3. 03Timely hepatitis B birth dose
  4. 04Systems that register and follow every child
  5. 05Continuity of immunisation