Belgium
General practitioners (GPs) often lack time and resources to invest in health education; audiovisual messages broadcast in the waiting room may be a useful educational tool. This work was designed to assess the effect of a message inviting patients...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Belgium
Vaccination of pregnant women with a pertussis containing vaccine is a recommended strategy in some industrialized countries, to protect young infants from severe disease. One of the effects of the presence of high titers of passively acquired...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Belgium
The burden of invasive pneumococcal disease in young children decreased dramatically following introduction of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7). The epidemiology of S. pneumoniae now reflects infections caused by serotypes not...
- Category: Vaccines & delivery devices
- Country: United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland, Turkey, Switzerland, Spain, Norway, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Ireland, Hungary, Germany, France, Denmark, Cyprus, Belgium
The effectiveness of childhood immunization programs depends on the vaccination coverage actually achieved. Routinely collected coverage data are not always available, and comparability between countries is often compromised because of different...
- Category: Programme management
- Country: Ireland, Belgium
Despite long-standing two-dose measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination, measles outbreaks still occur in highly vaccinated European populations. For instance, large measles outbreaks occurred in France (2008–13), the United Kingdom (2012–13) and...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Belgium
Rotavirus gastroenteritis is a vaccine-preventable disease that confers a high medical and economic burden in more developed countries and can be fatal in less developed countries. Two vaccines with high efficacy and good safety profiles were...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland, Norway, Luxembourg, Greece, Finland, Belgium, Austria
The deployment of a safe and effective malaria vaccine will be an important tool for the control of malaria and the reduction in malaria deaths. With the launch of the 2030 Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap, the malaria community has updated the...
- Category: Vaccines & delivery devices
- Country: Belgium
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Have you included pharmacists in your immunization plan?
Dear TechNet-21 Community, For many years, pharmacists have been involved in supply chain and supporting campaigns to support immunization by patients, but they are more and more i
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Tanzania leading the way with barcodes on vaccine packaging
by Daniel Thornton, GAVI; Henry Mwanyika, PATH; Drew Meek, WHO; Ulrike Kreysa, GS1 A project in Tanzania is exploring how best to implement barcodes on vaccine packaging. By adding barcodes to the
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Immunization Practices Advisory Committee: Members and Meeting Agenda
WHO/IVB is very pleased to announce the members of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC): Chair: Shelley DEEKS – Medical Epidemiologist – Ontario Agency for Health Protecti
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New bivalent polio vaccine simplifies logistics in hard-to-reach areas
New bivalent polio vaccine simplifies logistics in hard-to-reach areas[i]by Ian Lewis, UNICEF Supply Division[/i] Since 2005, the [url=http://www.polioeradication.org/]Global Polio Eradication Initiat
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POST 00712E : ACCIDENTAL NEEDLESTICK
POST 00712E : ACCIDENTAL NEEDLESTICK Follow-up on Posts 00701E, 00706E and 00708E 31 August 2004 _____________________________________ Two more contributions were received on this topic. The
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POST 00541E : FIRST EVER DEBATE BETWEEN WHO DIRECTOR GENERAL CANDIDATES
POST 00541E : FIRST EVER DEBATE BETWEEN WHO DIRECTOR GENERAL CANDIDATES 19 January 2003 _______________________________________________________________________________ Allan Bass (mailto:[log in t
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Post00343 VACCINE FREEZING: WHY IS THE COLD CHAIN TOO COLD?
Post00343 VACCINE FREEZING: WHY IS THE COLD CHAIN TOO COLD? 20 May 2001 CONTENTS 1. WHY IS THE COLD CHAIN TOO COLD? MORE..... 2. HEP-B OUT OF THE COLD CHAIN? 3. VVMs ON VACCINES 1. WHY I
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Post00327 : GAVI YEAR END REPORTS 2000
Post00327 GAVI YEAR END REPORTS 2000 2 March 2001 CONTENTS 1. GAVI DOCUMENT DISSEMINATION 2. GAVI AND THE GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN'S VACCINES: ONE YEAR LATER 3. PARTNERS' MEETING NOVEMBER 20
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Post00327 : GAVI YEAR END REPORTS 2000
Post00327 GAVI YEAR END REPORTS 2000 2 March 2001 CONTENTS 1. GAVI DOCUMENT DISSEMINATION 2. GAVI AND THE GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN'S VACCINES: ONE YEAR LATER 3. PARTNERS' MEETING NOVEMBER 20
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Post00327 : GAVI YEAR END REPORTS 2000
Post00327 GAVI YEAR END REPORTS 2000 2 March 2001 CONTENTS 1. GAVI DOCUMENT DISSEMINATION 2. GAVI AND THE GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN'S VACCINES: ONE YEAR LATER 3. PARTNERS' MEETING NOVEMBER 20
Home-based record
Home-based record (HBR): Belgium 2012
- Type: Home-based record
- Country: Belgium