African health ministers, political leaders and technical experts have pledged to ensure improved access to vaccines to reduce child mortality, morbidity and disability in the continent.
They also pledged to keep immunisation at the forefront of efforts to reduce child killer-diseases.
The decisions were taken at the maiden Ministerial Conference on Immunisation in Africa, which ended in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Thursday.
A release by Kamyar Jarahzadeh of the Global Health Strategies and obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, indicated the continental health officials are committed to overall improvement healthcare delivery in Africa.
Global Health Strategies is a sub-unit in the World Health Organisation, WHO.
The conference was hosted by WHO Regional Offices for Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean in conjunction with the African Union Commission.
The statement noted that the commitment was necessitated by the fact that a recent WHO finding showed that one in five African children lacked access to needed and basic life-saving vaccines.
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