96 Ensuring Quality Health for EVERYONE !-- !---->VillageReach has a vision for a world where each person has the health care needed to thrive. Since 2000 we have been working with partners in sub-Saharan Africa to solve health care delivery challenges. Over the next three years, our vision, promise and purpose is to accelerate the shift to peop...

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96 VillageReach awarded Top Rating 4 Stars**** from Charity Navigator !-- Did you know that VillageReach has earned Four Stars from Charity Navigator for the last seven years? Only 5% of all organizations have received this distinction. That means that when you support VillageReach, you can trust we will deliver impact with your gift.&n...

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Hello,If you attended November’s Discovery Session on the IIS Procurement Process, you may recall that there were technical issues during the session. Due to these technical issues, we did not have a recording of that session – until now! Thanks to CDC’s Beth Cox, PHII’s Bill Brand and HLN's Marcey Propp, we have rerecorded that session, and...

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*|MC:SUBJECT|*13 December 2019, Vol. 94, No. 50, pp. 601–612 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 601 Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases: numbers of people treated in 2018Download 13 décembre 2019, Vol. 94, No. 50, pp. 601-612 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 601 Schistosomiase et géohelminthiases: nombre de...

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Hello, New in 2020, the AIRA Members & Partners meetings are moving to a quarterly schedule. The AIRA Members & Partner meetings will be held from 2 – 3 p.m. ET in January, April, July, and October 2020. The purpose of this meeting is to provide you with important updates from AIRA and its partner organizations. It is a great way to get a h...

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Hello, As a reminder, AIRA’s next Discovery Session will be held on Monday, December 16 at 4pm ET. AIRA and the Modeling of Immunization Registry Operations Workgroup (MIROW) Steering Committee are excited to introduce an upcoming MIROW guide, Business Continuity Planning for Immunization Information System Programs. Highlights of the gui...

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*|MC:SUBJECT|*6 December 2019, Vol. 94, No. 49, pp. 581–600 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 581 Progress towards regional measles elimination – worldwide, 2000–2018 591 Reform of the International Coordinating Group for Vaccine Provision: a new framework for coordination, accountability and transparencyDownload 6 décembre 2019,...

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By Celina Kareiva, Senior Communications Associate Posted in Packaging, People, Policies & Practices, Practices Photo: PATH/Trevor Snapp. A health worker at Mareu Health Center in Tanzania checks her mobile phone. New evidence demonstrates that digital tools are improving immunization service delivery. The BID Initiative is committed to advanci...

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By Celina Kareiva, Senior Communications Associate Posted in Packaging, People, Policies & Practices, Practices Photo: PATH/Trevor Snapp. A health worker at Mareu Health Center in Tanzania checks her mobile phone. New evidence demonstrates that digital tools are improving immunization service delivery. The BID Initiative is committed to advanci...

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96 Your gift delivers the health care EVERYONE deserves !-- Dr. Odile is a lifesaver for women in the health zone of Makanza, a remote community on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has delivered nearly every child in her community and provides medical care to children and their families.But Dr. Odile must have vaccines ...

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*|MC:SUBJECT|*29 November 2019, Vol. 94, No. 48, pp. 561–580 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 561 Cholera, 2018 568 Global update on Middle East respiratory syndrome, 2019 574 Fact sheet on echinococcosis (updated May 2019)Download 29 novembre 2019, Vol. 94, No. 48, pp. 561-580 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 561 Ch...

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Hello,This email contains a message from our partners at the.National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO). Webinar Announcement: Measles in Rockland County, NY – The Local Health Department’s Outbreak Response Measles is a highly contagious virus in which one infected person can potentially infect 9 out of 10 expo...

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*|MC:SUBJECT|*22 November 2019, Vol. 94, No. 47, pp. 541–560 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 541 Meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization, October 2019: conclusions and recommendationsDownload 22 novembre 2019, Vol. 94, No. 47, pp. 541-560 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 541 Réunion du Groupe straté...

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Hello, As a reminder, AIRA’s next Discovery Session will be held on Monday, November 25 at 4pm ET. The session will touch on key points to consider when involved in the procurement process. This includes considerations when updating maintenance and support contractors and when acquiring new systems or services. We hope you can join u...

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Hello, The American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) is hosting a two-day regional workshop for the Pacific Islands in Guam on March 3-4. The workshop will address topics including measurement and improvement, the CDC Dashboard, clinical decision support, interoperability, and data quality and use. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear...

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Greetings Colleagues,

The American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) is proud to introduce and release the newly developed guide Patient Status in Immunization Information Systems.

AIRA leveraged a community-informed approach to examine implementation barriers and challenges to develop recommendations for patient status management in an IIS. The main purpose of the guide is to bridge the gap between currently published guidance on patient status and its actual implementation by IIS. This guide offers practical guidelines for providers, public health entities, and IIS to use in implementing and managing patient status. Challenges and recommendations related to IIS functionality, ease of use, implementation, and policy are described for both provider and geographic jurisdiction level issues. A secondary purpose of the guide is to address the issue of denominator inflation experienced by many IIS.

The primary audiences for the guide include IIS managers, IIS staff with responsibility for data quality, and Immunization program staff that work with providers, such as in Vaccines for Children (VFC) and quality improvement work. The document may also be valuable to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Immunization Program Managers, IIS vendors, EHR vendors, jurisdiction-specific information technology staff, national organizations supporting IIS, health care providers, and other partners and policy makers.

A community webinar was conducted on October 28 to introduce this guide and the recorded link can be found by using the “webinars” filter in the AIRA repository.

If you have questions regarding this new guide or webinar, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA)
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*|MC:SUBJECT|*15 November 2019, Vol. 94, No. 46, pp. 525–540 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 525 Progress towards poliomyelitis eradication – Pakistan, January 2018–September 2019532 Update on vaccine-derived polioviruses – worldwide, January 2018–June 2019Download 15 novembre 2019, Vol. 94, No. 46, pp. 525-540 M...

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Hello,

This email contains a request for information announcement and AIRA Members and Partners Meeting information.

Request for Information

AIRA is initiating a Request for Information (RFI) to invite interested agencies and firms to submit details about their business. AIRA will use the information gathered during this RFI process to identify the organization it will contract with to improve the organization and usability of its website, www.immregistries.org. Detailed information can be found here.


AIRA Members and Partners Meeting

The next AIRA Members and Partners bimonthly meeting is on Monday, November 18 at 2 p.m. ET. You'll find the agenda attached. As a reminder, a webinar component has been added to these meetings and the webinar information, along with dialing information, is included below. Recordings of past meetings can be found in the AIRA repository.

Join Webex Meeting
Meeting number: 739 220 308
Meeting password: membership

Join by Phone
Dialing Information: 1-800-326-0013
Passcode: 1670187#

Thank you,

Brittany Gyer | Administrative Coordinator
American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA)
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Main: 202.552.0208 | Direct: 202.552.5748 | www.immregistries.org


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Hello, This email contains a webinar announcement and an Information Request. Webinar Announcement AIRA is working with HHS' Office of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), along with additional partners, to expand consumer access to immunization records. This effort is exploring connecting personal health record vendors with IIS to expand consumer a...

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By Alan Giron on November 13th, 2019 Greetings to the IAPHL Membership.  As you now know, we are in the process of reorganizing the secretariat for IAPHL.  I have taken on the executive director position and we are still recruiting for our social media expert to join the team.  For those of you able to attend the GHSC Summit in Johannesburg, I am h...

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