Hello, AIRA is interested in understanding your jurisdiction's plans to address consumer access to immunization records. If you are willing to share information, please reply to this email and include your contact information for follow-up by April 13, 2021.Information Requested If you have a consumer access strategy in place or un...

View this email in your browser !----> March Newsletter!---->The past year has confirmed many inequities between communities around the world. As expected, COVID-19 has adversely affected those without resources and access to healthcare. Today, on World Health Day, the World Health Organization urges us to work towards...

Hello, Patient deduplication is one of the six Data Quality Content Areas that will eventually be measured as part of AIRA’s Measurement and Improvement (M&I) Initiative. AIRA and the Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) are conducting an IIS community survey to support this new content area. The purpose of th...

Monthly Update March 2021 in Review www.immregistries.org In This Issue… AIRA's COVID-19 Response UpdateWelcome New Staff to AIRANeed Epi or Data Visualization Support?Wanted: SmartyStreets User Group PresentersUpdated SmartyStreets Survey Rolls Out in AprilAIRA Board Corner: Miriam Muscoplat, DirectorInformation RequestsCommittee and Workgr...

2 April 2021, Vol. 96, No. 13, pp. 15–112Now online IN THIS ISSUE 105 pneumococcal vaccines: WHO position paper on their use in community outbreak settings110 Monthly report on dracunculiasis cases, January–December 2020Download 2 avril 2021, Vol. 96, No. 13, pp. 105-112Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 105 ...

Hello, It might be April Fool’s Day, but this is no joke! The AIRA 2021 National Meeting is happening. We’re currently planning for a hybrid meeting with both in-person and virtual components on August 3–5 in Portland, Oregon. Thankfully, the COVID-19 case rates in Oregon are among the lowest in the nation. If things go as hoped with President Bide...

View this email in your browser or download PDFMarch 2021POLIO NEWSDear Moderator,To celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is recognizing the incredible contributions of women around the world working tirelessly to end polio once and for all. From spe...

On behalf of the partners of the COVID-19 Action Fund for Africa (CAF-Africa), we invite you to a workshop:PPE Access for All: The Journey and the Future. Our CAF-Africa team and valued partners have generated extensive lessons learned in supplying PPE for community health workers in 18 countries. We will discuss lessons l...

Hello,It’s hard to believe March is almost over. Spring has sprung, and with it comes the next edition of SnapShots, AIRA’s newsletter about the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS across the country. This edition showcases some of the ongoing work being done in the IIS community, including data visualization, tools for...

Hello, Join us for the next American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) Discovery Session on Monday, April 26 at 4 p.m. ET.AIRA hosts monthly webinars, called Discovery Sessions, for staff in the IIS community. Next month’s session will be an orientation to AIRA’s resources and activities for new IIS staff and staff that have not ...

Hello,We’re looking for articles for the June 2021 edition of SnapShots and would love to share your stories. SnapShots is AIRA’s quarterly newsletter that highlights the innovative work and accomplishments of IIS. Being mid-year, June is a great time to reflect on the previous six months and any mid-year milestones your program and II...

26 March 2021, Vol. 96, No. 12, pp. 89–104 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 89 Antigenic and genetic characteristics of zoonotic influenza A viruses and development of candidate vaccine viruses for pandemic preparednessDownload 26 mars 2021, Vol. 96, No. 12, pp. 89-104 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 89 Caractéristiques génétiques et...

WHO’s interim guidance “Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness” WHO’s interim guidance “Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness” Dear colleagues, Given your interest by being part of this list-serve, we thought you might be interested in the release of WHO’s interim guidance “Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness” which is now ava...

Hello,Please join us for the upcoming AIRA Members & Partners meeting on Monday, April 19 at 2 p.m. ET. AIRA Members & Partners quarterly meetings provide important updates from AIRA and partner organizations and are a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization co...

People that Deliver Grand Challenge for Last Mile Health Supply Chain COVID-19 Support Programme Thursday, 15 April 202115:00 CEST (09:00 EDT)Register Join People that Deliver (PtD) and the FIA Foundation for a webinar featuring the four Grand Challenge projects that were part of PtD Last Mile Health Supply Chain COVID-19 Supp...

The clock is indeed ticking on our race to end tuberculosis (TB). COVID-19 has challenged TB programs in countless ways, and JSI staff working on TB and health projects have responded with resilience and flexibility. In addition to projects with integrated TB activities, JSI supports USAID’s investments under the Global TB Accelerator to End TB, su...

19 March 2021, Vol. 96, No. 11, pp. 77–88 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 77 Recommended composition of influenza virus vaccines for use in the 2021–2022 northern hemisphere influenza seasonDownload 19 mars 2021, Vol. 96, No. 11, pp. 77-88 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 77 Composition recommandée des vaccins antigr...

Project background – A home-based record (HBR) is a health document used to record the history of health services received by an individual. It is kept in the household, in paper or electronic format, by the individual or their caregiver, and is intended to integrate into the health information system and to complement records maintained ...

Press Release Gavi, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and USAID announce innovative collaboration to support health supply chain leaders in low- and middle-income countries Photo credit: Lucy Kanja, 2019 18 March 2021, Geneva: Recognising the critical role that health supply chain leaders and managers play in e...

Hello, Please see the following information request. If you are willing to share information, please reply to this email and include your contact information for follow-up. Information Requested The next phase of vaccination in Minnesota includes a job sector (food processing plants) that contains a large number of undocumented people. There i...