31 March 2023, Vol. 98, No. 13, pp. 127–144 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 127 Meeting of the Immunization and Vaccine-related Implementation Research Advisory Committee (IVIR-AC), February 2023 139 WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme: acute emergencies monthly summary – February 2023 31 mars 202...
With Spring comes April showers, May flowers, and the March 2023 edition of SnapShots, AIRA's quarterly newsletter that highlights the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS. This edition of SnapShots features articles on bidirectional data exchange between IIS and school districts, PHII's eLearnings, and Virginia's in-house pa...
GPEI Statement on cVDPV2 detections in Burundi and Democratic Republic of the CongoThrough ongoing surveillance, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has received notification of the detection of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) linked wit...
MARCH 29, 2023 HOT TOPICSAttending the AIRA National Meeting? Time to sign up for your AART clinic!AIRA is excited to offer personalized sessions for IIS teams to meet with AIRA technical staff to review AART (Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool) testing results and discuss practical recommendations for improvements. Sess...
IN THIS EDITION THE MARCH 2023 ISSUE WILL BE OUT SOON. 30th Pan American Sanitary Conference: Keeping the Region of the Americas Polio-Free What I have learned … Raúl Montesano CastellanosTen news items on vaccination in the Americas published by PAHO | Road map to defeat meningitis by 2030Building Better Immunity: A Path to He...
News from PATH on vaccine uptake and accessMarch 2023|SubscribeIn this issue WHO approves Serum Institute pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for 2+1 schedule Phased expansion of malaria vaccine begins in more areas in Africa PATH and partners work to ...
VACCINE ACCESS DIGEST | MARCH 2023NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTSBreaking the Barriers: How Gender Equity Advances Immunization Gender roles and norms can profoundly impact immunization uptake and health outcomes for women, children, families, and communities. To increase immunization coverage and reach zero-dose chil...
What you may have missed What you may have missed Resources News Events WHO 5th Global Forum on Human Resources for Health Register for PtD’s virtual parallel sessionWhen: Monday 3 April, 10:45 – 12:15 CEST How to register: Register herePeople that Deliver is playing a leading role in the session Health supply chain cadres: The m...
Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics (EYE) Strategy on Yellow Fever is a 16-part series that takes you inside the global efforts to ensure that yellow fever does not become the next big global health threat. We interview global experts from fields including immunization, climate change, space science, and the Amazon rainforest to show what goes into ar...
Two new resource collections are available on TechNet-21. Existing technical resources (tools, technical guidance, information documents and databases) are organized in a user-friendly way allowing for structured browsing and comparison of resources. For each resource, a synopsis is provided to allow quick overview of the author, purpose, content, ...
A new benchmark report on life-course immunization highlights the urgent need for changes in global, regional and national immunization policies and plans to reach WHO’s 2030 Immunization Agenda (IA2030) and the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing objectives. The need to extend the benefits of vaccination from early life to include the whole li...
Vaccination coverage in children under 7 years, Guatemala City, November 2022. In 2020, reported vaccination coverage in Guatemala City was 50% for OPV3 and 61% for MMR1, classifying the city as high-risk for polio re-emergence. To report vaccination coverage, the Ministry of Public Health (MSPAS) uses a nominal electronic registry that does not in...
The “Strengthening implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health” guide was jointly developed by WHO, UNICEF and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for country programme managers. The guide aims to provide activities and decision-making tools that strengthen the processes around planning, designing, impl...
MARCH 22, 2023 HOT TOPICSNational IG Release 1.6: Call for experts, influencers, and advisors CDC, in collaboration with AIRA and NIST, is launching an Implementation Guide Expert Group in late spring 2023 to facilitate and contribute to the development of the national Release 1.6 of the Implementation Guide (IG) for Immunization Mes...
The United Nations Foundation is pleased to share the newly released report, “Leveraging CSO Contributions to Advance Polio Transition and Integration Efforts in the African Region”, co-created with the Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Associations (CCRDA) in Ethiopia; Impact Health Organization (IHO) in South Sudan; Vaccine Network f...
Volume 17, Issue 2 - February 2023The Measles and Rubella Bulletin is a monthly publication reporting progress towards achieving measles and rubella elimination in the Western Pacific Region. Inside each issue, we present the latest reported data by country on measles and rubella incidence, surveillance performance, and ...
View this email in your browserMOMENTUM Insidertogether withZeroing in on Zero-Dose MARCH 2023Thanks for reading this special edition of the MOMENTUM Insider and Immunization in Focus newsletters! This message is intended for subscribers to both newsletters. You can subscribe to all of our newsletters here.Introduction The term...
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This weekly report provides key highlights and operational recommendations based on social listening data from March 10-16 in Africa. https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2023-03/AIRA%20Infodemic%20Trends%20Report%20-%2010-16%20March%202023.pdf
Eastern Mediterranean health leaders call for redoubled efforts for a defining year for polioOn Tuesday 28 February 2023, ministers and high-level delegates from across the Eastern Mediterranean Region participated in the seventh meeting of the Regional Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks.Read more in...