(English) SIF Atelier on Sustainable Immunization Financing held in Yaounde, Cameroon.

On 29-30 April 2010, in Yaounde, Cameroon, a group of parliamentarians and elected mayors (maires) met to discuss immunization financing in Cameroon. Ministry of Health, Finance and Decentralization officials attended the Sabin-sponsored workshop.

Cameroon is well on its way to sustainably financing its EPI Program. MPs and maires decided to include immunization line items in their regional budgets. Concerned with donor dependency, they further recommended forming a national immunization fund, to be financed jointly by the federal government and the ten regional governments. The Ministry of Health will relay this recommendation to the Prime Minister, and a law will be drafted to help institute the fund. It could go before parliament for its approval by the end of 2010.

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• Cameroon
• public health programs
• Africa
• nationalized immunization
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