Access to Vaccination for Newly Arrived Migrants - AcToVax4NAM

A 3-year European project with a mission to improve the vaccination uptake in Newly Arrived Migrants (NAM). The beneficiaries are Newly Arrived Migrants (NAM) regardless of legal status in first line, transit, and destination EU/EEA countries. The general objective of the AcToVax4NAM project is the improvement of Vaccination Literacy (VL) and access, and thereby vaccination uptake for Newly Arrived Migrants (NAM) making access conditions more equitable and guaranteed. The project will target Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPDs) that are part of National Immunization Plans and will adopt a life-course approach. More specifically the project will: • Identify solutions for overcoming system barriers, also addressing the impact of political and cultural environments in each of the consortium countries. • Address institutional or system-based Vaccination Literacy (VL) for health and social care professionals who work with NAM, including non-medical personnel such as health mediators. • Develop country specific action-oriented flow charts to overcome system barriers. • Pilot interventions and different tools. • Reinforce networking capacity to address VL and migrants-sensitivity of the health care system with respect to the immunization of NAM.