Cuba
The synchronized introduction of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and the switch from trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) has constituted an effort without precedents, and with astonishing results. Within the...
- Category: Programme management
- Country: Venezuela Bolivarian Republic Of, Uruguay, United States, Turks And Caicos Islands, Trinidad And Tobago, Suriname, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Saint Pierre And Miquelon, Saint Kitts And Nevis, Puerto Rico, Peru, Paraguay, Panama, Nicaragua, Montserrat, Mexico, Martinique, Jamaica, Honduras, Haiti, Guyana, Guatemala, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, Cayman Islands, Canada, Brazil, Bolivia Plurinational State Of, Bermuda, Belize, Barbados, The Bahamas, Aruba, Argentina, Antigua And Barbuda, Anguilla
- Organisation: WHO
INTRODUCTION: Polio was first detected in Cuba in the late 19th century among residents of the US community on the Isla de Pinos (Isle of Pines, now Isle of Youth), apparently introduced through migration from the USA. The first outbreak was...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Cuba
Introduction: Origins and Definitions International cooperation for purposes of infectious and tropical disease control goes back to at least the 14th century, when early concepts of quarantine were introduced in Dubrovnik on the Adriatic Coast...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Viet Nam, Thailand, Korea South, Pakistan, Mexico, Japan, Iran Islamic Republic Of, Indonesia, India, Egypt, Cuba, China, Brazil, Afghanistan
- Organisation: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, WHO
This evaluation shows that vaccinating infants with a single fractional dose of IPV can induce priming and seroconversion in more than 90% of immunized infants.
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Cuba
- Organisation: WHO
The researchers conducted a follow-on study to a phase I randomized, controlled trial conducted in Cuba, 2012, to assess the persistence of poliovirus antibodies at 21–22 months following booster dose of Sabin-IPV compared to Salk-IPV in adults...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Cuba
Recently an investigational meningococcal B vaccine has been used in two college outbreaks in the US. This is the first time that a meningococcal B vaccine has been used for outbreak control in the US. However, strain specific vaccines for...
- Category: Vaccines & delivery devices
- Country: United States, Norway, New Zealand, Cuba
Starting in the late 1980s, many Latin American countries began social sector reforms to alleviate poverty, reduce socioeconomic inequalities, improve health outcomes, and provide financial risk protection. In particular, starting in the 1990s,...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Venezuela Bolivarian Republic Of, Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil, Argentina
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Home-based record
Home-based record (HBR): Cuba 2013
- Type: Home-based record
- Country: Cuba
Home-based record
Home-based record (HBR): Cuba 2000
- Type: Home-based record
- Country: Cuba