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Diana Chang Blanc

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  • The global COVID-19 vaccination response provides many lessons on how to better prepare for and respond to future pandemics that require rapid, large-scale vaccination. This document includes a collection of experiences, best practices, and innovations used during the COVID-19 response that can also apply to strengthening routine immunization, primary health-care services, and outbreak response.

    https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/the-covid-19-vaccination-response--country-experiences--best-practices--and-lessons 

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  • Diana Chang Blanc started a new discussion, Measles Outbreak Guide
    Measles Outbreak Guide

    Dear colleagues, 

    The conclusions of the Global Measles and Rubella Strategic Plan 2012–2020 implementation midterm review highlighted the need to update protocols for guiding surveillance and outbreak investigation and response. 

    To that end, WHO and partners have developed the Measles Outbreak Guideto assist with measles outbreak management in all settings that are striving for and approaching measles elimination, 

    This English language publication is now online on the IVB measles page: https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/diseases/measles

    Direct link to document: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/measles-outbreak-guide

    French translation is in process.   

    This guide is based on existing WHO documents, including: 

    • Response to measles outbreaks in measles mortality reduction settings; 
    • Guide for clinical case management and infection prevention and control during a measles outbreak; 
    • WHO Surveillance standards for...

    Dear colleagues, 

    The conclusions of the Global Measles and Rubella Strategic Plan 2012–2020 implementation midterm review highlighted the need to update protocols for guiding surveillance and outbreak investigation and response. 

    To that end, WHO and partners have developed the Measles Outbreak Guideto assist with measles outbreak management in all settings that are striving for and approaching measles elimination, 

    This English language publication is now online on the IVB measles page: https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/diseases/measles

    Direct link to document: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/measles-outbreak-guide

    French translation is in process.   

    This guide is based on existing WHO documents, including: 

    • Response to measles outbreaks in measles mortality reduction settings; 
    • Guide for clinical case management and infection prevention and control during a measles outbreak; 
    • WHO Surveillance standards for vaccine-preventable diseases; 
    • Roadmap to elimination standard measles and rubella surveillance; 
    • Measles vaccines: WHO position paper; 
    • The immunological basis for immunization: measles; 
    • Establishing and strengthening immunization in the second year of life (2YL); 
    • Manual for the laboratory-based surveillance of measles, rubella, and congenital rubella syndrome;
    • Planning and implementing high-quality supplementary immunization activities for injectable vaccines; and 
    • Region-specific guidelines and experience with recent measles outbreaks globally. 

    This guide also draws on the standard operating procedures (SOPs) to apply for measles outbreak response support from the Measles & Rubella Initiative Outbreak Response Fund and includes a section on measles outbreak recovery so that contributing factors and potential root causes are identified and addressed systematically after a measles outbreak. This guide does not aim to be a comprehensive guide on measles elimination or routine immunization (RI) more broadly.

    Measles outbreak training on OpenWHO supports implementation of this guide: https://openwho.org/courses/measles-outbreak-pre-deployment-training

    This training is also being translated into multiple languages.

    If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out directly to William Perea ([email protected]) or Lee Lee Ho [email protected]

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  •   Lokesh Alahari reacted to this post about 1 year ago

    Dear colleagues,

    Throughout the pandemic, WHO has published SAGE-endorsed guiding principles to help guide countries in their decision-making.  The first was published in March 2020 to help guide countries during the early stages of the pandemic.  The second was published in November 2020 to help address the challenges related to the extended disruptions caused by the pandemic.  We are now sharing with you the latest guiding principles, titled Guiding Principles for recovering, building resiliency, and strengthening of immunization in 2022 and beyond. This document is intended to support countries in their decision-making regarding recovery, resiliency-building and strengthening of immunization.   It incorporates the Immunization Agenda 2030 principles of being people-centred, country-owned, partnership-based and data-guided.

    The PDF documents and web links of the English version and the French-translated version are available on the TechNet-21 website:

    English: https://www.tech...

    Dear colleagues,

    Throughout the pandemic, WHO has published SAGE-endorsed guiding principles to help guide countries in their decision-making.  The first was published in March 2020 to help guide countries during the early stages of the pandemic.  The second was published in November 2020 to help address the challenges related to the extended disruptions caused by the pandemic.  We are now sharing with you the latest guiding principles, titled Guiding Principles for recovering, building resiliency, and strengthening of immunization in 2022 and beyond. This document is intended to support countries in their decision-making regarding recovery, resiliency-building and strengthening of immunization.   It incorporates the Immunization Agenda 2030 principles of being people-centred, country-owned, partnership-based and data-guided.

    The PDF documents and web links of the English version and the French-translated version are available on the TechNet-21 website:

    English: https://www.technet-21.org/media/com_resources/trl/7945/multi_upload/GuidingPrinciplesforImmunizationProgrammeRecovery.pdf

    French: https://www.technet-21.org/media/com_resources/trl/7946/multi_upload/GuidingPrinciplesforImmunizationProgrammeRecovery_French.pdf 

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  •   Dan Brigden reacted to this post about 2 years ago

    Dear All:

    With thanks to all who contributed, the NDVP version 2.0 is now on-line and can be found at: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Vaccine-deployment-2021.1-eng

    The updated (second) version of the WHO-UNICEF “Guidance on developing a national deployment and vaccination plan (NDVP)” for COVID-19 vaccines. This version supersedes the previous version published in 16 November 2020. New information has been added on the following areas:

    • the COVID-19 Partners Platform;
    • the use of COVID-19 simulation exercises to test deployment strategies;
    • the indemnity agreement and no-fault compensation programme for vaccines secured through the COVAX Facility in the Advance Market Commitment (AMC) eligible economies;
    • the availability and use of the WHO-UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction and deployment Costing (CVIC) tool;
    • the COVAX Facility’s humanitarian buffer that enables allocation of vaccine to cover high-risk populations in humanitarian settings;
    • recommendat...

    Dear All:

    With thanks to all who contributed, the NDVP version 2.0 is now on-line and can be found at: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Vaccine-deployment-2021.1-eng

    The updated (second) version of the WHO-UNICEF “Guidance on developing a national deployment and vaccination plan (NDVP)” for COVID-19 vaccines. This version supersedes the previous version published in 16 November 2020. New information has been added on the following areas:

    • the COVID-19 Partners Platform;
    • the use of COVID-19 simulation exercises to test deployment strategies;
    • the indemnity agreement and no-fault compensation programme for vaccines secured through the COVAX Facility in the Advance Market Commitment (AMC) eligible economies;
    • the availability and use of the WHO-UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction and deployment Costing (CVIC) tool;
    • the COVAX Facility’s humanitarian buffer that enables allocation of vaccine to cover high-risk populations in humanitarian settings;
    • recommendations for vaccination of pregnant and lactating women;
    • supplementary information on infection prevention and control (IPC) measures to be used to deliver COVID-19 vaccines safely;
    • the WHO licensed COVID-19 vaccines product-specific information;
    • use of geospatial data and digital micro plans for equitable access and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines;
    • lessons learned from the development of NDVPs and early experiences in COVID-19 vaccine deployment in countries; and
    • updated additional resources at the end of each chapter.
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