The WHO website provides a list of certain diseases for which vaccines are available, and a list of some pathogens for which vaccines and/or monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are in development. For each disease or pathogen, a link is provided to a...

The Consortium aims to deliver a more sustainable, efficent, and transparent approach to generating disease burden and vaccine impact estimates. It works on aggregating the estimates across a protfolio of 12 vaccine-preventable diseases and further...

Cette note de synthèse actualisée sur les vaccins contre l’encéphalite japonaise (EJ) remplace la note de 2006 résumant la position de l’OMS sur le même sujet; elle renferme principalement des informations nouvelles concernant la...

More than 300 million people who live in rural areas of the Mekong region are among the most at-risk for Japanese encephalitis (JE) infection due to changes in the Mekong region’s ecological conditions. This fact sheet describes how PATH helps...

Introduction: Two types of Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccines, inactivated JE vaccine (JE-I) and live-attenuated JE vaccine (JE-L), are available and used in China. In particular, one JE-L, produced by a domestic manufacturer in China, was...

Background The performance of live attenuated Japanese Encephalitis SA 14-14-2 vaccine (CD-JEV) among children previously given inactivated mouse brain-derived JE vaccine (IMBV) is unknown. We evaluated the safety and immunogenicity of CD-JEV...

• Determining the costs and requirements to finance a new JE vaccination program is the final, essential step in deciding to introduce JE vaccine into a national immunization program. • Before introduction, countries should analyze and update...

• WHO recommends that JE-endemic countries conduct a one-time JE vaccination campaign in the primary target population and then incorporate JE vaccine into the national immunization program (NIP) as routine immunization. • Routine immunization...

• Three JE vaccines have been prequalified by WHO as safe, effective, and acceptable for procurement by United Nations agencies. • Vaccination programs using any of the WHO-prequalified JE vaccines would provide lifesaving protection from JE...