Cholera
The costing tool enables the user to estimate the value of incremental (additional) resources required to add oral cholera vaccination campaigns to an existing immunization programme. The CholTool is designed for costing from a payer/provider...
- Category: Programme management
The WHO website provides a list of certain diseases for which vaccines are available, and a list of some pathogens for which vaccines and/or monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are in development. For each disease or pathogen, a link is provided to a...
- Category: Vaccines & delivery devices
- Organisation: WHO
Ending Cholera—A Global Roadmap to 2030 operationalises the new global strategy for cholera control at the country level and provides a concrete path toward a world in which cholera is no longer a threat to public health. By implementing the...
- Category: Global initiatives
- Country: Not Specified
The Series “The Immunological Basis for immunization”, was initially developed in 1993 as a set of eight modules focusing on the vaccines included in the Expanded Programme on immunization (EPI). In addition to a general immunology module, each...
- Category: Programme management
- Country: Not Specified
- Organisation: WHO
The WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research organized a meeting jointly with the WHO Global Task Force on Cholera Control to examine the feasibility of a global stockpile for OCVs. Having major stakeholders agree to the objectives and scope of an OCV...
- Category: Vaccines & delivery devices, Programme management
- Country: Not Specified
- Organisation: WHO
Shanchol™, a WHO-prequalified oral cholera vaccine (OCV), has been used to control endemic cholera in Asia, as well as in emergencies and outbreaks elsewhere. The vaccine has not been used by public health systems in cholera-endemic settings of...
- Category: Vaccines & delivery devices
- Country: Ethiopia
The Controlled Temperature Chain Working Group (CTC) has recently developed a Strategic Roadmap for Priority Vaccines, which addresses supply and programmatic issues, aiming for CTC priority vaccines to become licensed for CTC use and facilitating...
- Category: Programme management
- Organisation: WHO
Objective To describe the implementation and feasibility of an innovative mass vaccination strategy – based on single-dose oral cholera vaccine – to curb a cholera epidemic in a large urban setting. Method In April 2016, in the early stages of...
- Category: Vaccines & delivery devices
- Country: Zambia
- Organisation: MSF, WHO
A reactive campaign using two doses of Shanchol Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) was implemented in 2016 in the Lake Chilwa Region (Malawi) targeting fish dependent communities. Three strategies for the second vaccine dose delivery (including delivery by...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Malawi
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Cholera Vaccine Availability
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Updated Immunization Delivery Cost Catalogue (IDCC), Webinar and Poster at HSR2018
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Summary Tables of WHO Routine Immunization Recommendations have been updated
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Editorial from EPI Monthly Feedback Bulletin from AFRO East and South (August-October 2017): The use of innovations (ODK) supporting country level Integrated Supportive Supervision real time documentation.
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New and underutilised vaccines/New cold chain approaches
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