In 2016, a widespread yellow fever outbreak in Angola, also affecting the capital city, caused unprecedented spread, affecting neighbouring countries with an urban outbreak in Kinshasa (the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and viraemic travellers to Asia. The following year, yellow fever spread to coastal areas in Brazil including large urban centres that had not seen outbreaks in several decades. In response to these outbreaks and the threat of international spread, the WHO, Gavi and UNICEF developed a comprehensive multi-partner global strategy to Eliminate Yellow fever Epidemics (EYE) 2017–2026. The EYE strategy has three overall strategic objectives to:
• protect at risk populations;
• prevent international spread; and
• contain outbreaks rapidly.
Forty countries considered at high risk for yellow fever outbreaks are targeted under the EYE strategy. This includes 27 countries in Africa and 13 countries in the Americas.
A mid-term evaluation was included as a milestone in the EYE strategy, and in the WHO evaluation workplan 2022–2023 which was approved by the WHO Executive Board at its 150th session in January 2022.
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Type | |
Joint | No |
Partner/s | N/A |
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Consultant name | Euro Health Group |
Agency Focal Point | Marie Bombin |
Focal Point Email | evaluation@who.int |
Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | Yes |