In Africa, issues of vaccine supply, financing, and sustainability require urgent attention if the Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved, according to African experts writing in this week’s PLOS Medicine.

In BMC Medicine, VACFA researchers provide insights into factors that influence childhood immunisation research in Africa.

The First International African Vaccine Conference (IAVC) held in Cape Town, South Africa, brought together 500 health workers, programme managers, researchers, representatives of civil society, government, and international agencies to discuss successes and challenges of immunisation programmes in Africa and to explore regionally appropriate solutions.

On 24 November 2009 the World Health Organization added VACFA to the list of Vaccine Safety Net websites, because of VACFA's adherence to the credibility and content criteria of good information practices. The VACFA site was re-evaluated in October 2012 and found to have maintained the same high standards.