At the Paris Appeal “to advance women’s and children’s health worldwide”, Melinda Gates personally handed over the 2014 Gates Vaccine Innovation Award to AMP for EPIVAC®, an innovative on-the-job training program for district medical officers in Africa.
EPIVAC’s mission is to substantially improve immunization systems, especially at district level, by strengthening the technical and managerial skills of participants from 11 French-speaking countries in Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Togo.