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Introduction: Despite the tremendous increase in the number of modern health institutions, traditional medical practices still remain alternative places of health care service delivery and important...
Introduction: an increasing trend of routine immunization performance has generally been observed over the past decade in Ethiopia. However, the improvement is irregular with wide disparity among and...
Introduction: Ethiopia joined the global effort to eradicate polio in 1996, and interrupted indigenous wild poliovirus transmission by December 2001. However, the country experienced numerous...
Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO), Ethiopia country office, introduced an accountability framework into its Polio Eradication Program in 2014 with the aim of improving the program\'s...
Background: Several new vaccines have been introduced into China in recent years, but some parents in China have shown concerns about the scheduling of vaccinations for young infants. This study...
The Gavi Full Country Evaluations was a prospective study from 2013 to 2016 in four countries: Bangladesh, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia. The study aimed to understand and quantify the barriers and...
Whooping cough or pertussis is special among vaccine-preventable diseases because neither infection nor vaccinations confer lifelong or long-lasting protection. Young infants are particularly...
This study examined the dynamics of vaccine spending and vaccine legislation in the Americas Region over the period 1980-2013. Annual vaccine expenditures from thirty-one countries were extracted...
Ethiopia joined the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1996, and by the end of December 2001 circulation of indigenous Wild Polio Virus (WPV) had been interrupted. Nonetheless, the country...
In light of the increasing refusal of some parents to vaccinate children, public health strategies have focused on increasing knowledge and awareness based on a “knowledge-deficit” approach....
Background: A 9-valent human papillomavirus (HPV6/11/16/18/31/33/45/52/58; 9vHPV) vaccine was developed to expand coverage of the previously developed quadrivalent (HPV6/11/16/18; qHPV) vaccine....
Background
We conducted a randomized, non-inferiority, clinical study of MMR vaccine by a disposable-syringe jet injector (DSJI) in toddlers in India in comparison with the conventional...
Introduction: A quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination program targeting females aged 12–13 commenced in Australia in 2007, with catch-up vaccination of 14–26 year olds through 2009. We...
Vaccine hesitancy in industrialised countries is an area of concern. Health professionals play a significant role in parental vaccination decisions, however, to date the role of midwives has not been...
Immunization remains one of the most important and cost-effective public health interventions to reduce child mortality and morbidity. Globally, it is estimated to avert between 2 and 3 million...
Standard operating procedure for shipping yellow fever (YF) specimens to Regional Reference Laboratories (RRLs)
Background
Health data can be useful for effective service delivery, decision making, and evaluating existing programs in order to maintain high quality of healthcare. Studies have shown variability...
Le présent document indique aux pays comment se doter d’un plan d’amélioration continue de leur
chaîne d’approvisionnement en vaccins. Il a pour objet de les aider à développer des...
An EPI Review, also referred to as National Immunization Programme Review, is the comprehensive assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of an immunization programme at national, subnational and...
The Introducing Digital Immunization information systems - Exchange And Learning from Vietnam (IDEAL-Vietnam) is a PATH project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which has been working...
The WHO and UNICEF Immunization Summary Mobile APP flyer
As a country with the highest death toll due to COVID-19 in Southeast Asia [1], the rapidly escalating health crisis has prompted the government of Indonesia to provide against the worst scenario for...
This article describes a reduction in childhood vaccinations during the COVID‐19 pandemic, which may leave communities more vulnerable to vaccine‐preventable diseases.
Analysis of routine Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) data indicate a marked decline in immunization services notably between the months of March and May 2020. A comparative analysis of...
Joint policy statement on the use of vaccine vial monitors in immunization services
Joint policy statement on the implementation of vaccine vial monitors : the role of vaccine vial monitors in improving access to immunization
The 16th TechNet Conference took place online on October 20-21, 2020. The theme was "Shaping a resilient and adaptive immunization program". Sessions were organised into four key themes: ISC...
This document describes how to choose the sites for an EVM assessment. The first
step is to collect basic data on the country’s immunization supply chain. These data
are then used to select sites...
During the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, immunization practices of all age groups, especially routine childhood vaccines, have been interrupted. Immunization...
Practical strategies and equipment options to deliver ultra-cold vaccines from national stores to district stores and then to service points.
This guide:
1) Provides guidance on why and how to use dashboards to improve the visibility and performance of in-country immunization supply chains
2) Promotes the use of supply chain data to...
A novel way of manufacturing: case study low-cost inactivated polio vaccine
Keynote address delivered at the 2021 GVIRF.
Why was there a loss of vaccine confidence in the Philippines? What were the consequences of this confidence crisis? How was this issue addressed?
Technology advances that make new vaccines possible and COVID-19 vaccine and monoclonal antibody development
Vaccinology in 2021, pandemic preparedness and response, and challenges for the next decade
Using controlled human infection models to accelerate discovery in typhoid vaccines
Vaccinology in 2021, pandemic preparedness and response, and challenges for the next decade
Recent results in TB vaccine R&D are game-changing: what key challenges and opportunities remain?
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Key message 1: As the COVID-19 pandemic affected routine immunisation services worldwide, country programmes have used a range of mitigation strategies to maintain vaccine delivery...
Global polio epidemiology; Novel OPV type 2 clinical development, manufacturing, regulatory, and roll-out; Looking forward
What is needed for a more productive, integrated approach to combating epidemics?
Vaccinating America’s children: A job for orthopaedic surgeons & other non-primary care specialists?
Clinical scenario
An 11-year-old girl is brought to the local orthopaedic sports medicine clinic for evaluation of acute onset left knee pain and swelling. She was playing soccer in the yard with...
The impact on families of inequitable access, achieving COVID-19 vaccination, COVID-19 vaccine research: speed vs. equity, and the role of WHO in achieving vaccines equity.
Article discussing Tanzania's HPV vaccine introduction and decision-making in the context of supply constraints.
0:36 - Introduction, Peter Hotez. 2:48 - Decision-making and prioritization of vaccines to address public health needs in low- and middle-income countries, Bill Hausdorff. 15:14 - Prioritization of...
Journal article on HPV vaccine introduction (decision-making and implementation) in Tanzania
As part of its support to the Government of Pakistan in 2017–2018, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) collaborated with VillageReach to conduct an analysis of the country’s...
In 2020, the GPEI launched a revision of the strategy for polio eradication. Partners and stakeholders collectively identified remaining obstacles to polio eradication, in order to inform a revised...
Persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, both directly because of infection, and indirectly because of restrictions to reduce the spread of the virus. Persons with...
3:28 - Nucleic acid vaccines: Is it all done? Christian Mandl. 21:37 - Viral Vectored vaccine platform technologies, Sarah Gilbert. 33:49 - Adjuvants, . 45:16 - Block 1 Q&A, Christian Mandl, Nathalie...
Quantitative and qualitative assessments have revealed diverse factors that influence the uptake of childhood immunisation services and shed light on reasons for vaccination delays and refusals....
Journal article describing knowledge and feasibility survey conducted in Tanzania.
Knowledge and feasibility survey in Zimbabwe after multiple age cohort introduction.
The use of routine immunization data by health care professionals in low- and middle-income countries remains an underutilized resource in decision-making. Despite the significant resources invested...
Document summarises progress and challenges with achieving universal immunisation coverage in 2020. Estimates are as of July 15, 2021 and includes data reported as of July 6, 2021.
This presentation, available in both Adobe PDF and Microsoft PowerPoint format, can be used to train health workers and supply chain officers on how to effectively manage the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19...
Documentation of Sikkim State, India's multiple-age cohort HPV vaccine introduction.
The FAQs are intended to provide answers to health care providers and the public including mothers who are breastfeeding or expressing milk on breastfeeding and the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19...
0:05 - Opportunities, risks, and potential valleys of death, David Kaslow, PATH. 16:22 - Is there a role for early policy decision? Rino Rappuoli, GSK. 27:58 - Building the concept of Preferred...
With this commentary, we discuss experiences from Nepal, Senegal and Liberia in addressing COVID-related disruptions of RI services in early-2020 to mid-2020. We represent a range of stakeholders...
This presentation introduces Medexis eLMIS solution and a case study from Burundi.
This study reviews the administrative routine immunization data from 15 African countries for the period from January 2018 to June 2020 to analyze the trends in the monthly number of children...
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most serious challenges the world has faced in recent times. The total cost in terms of human lives is yet to unfold. Alongside the cost of lives and deep health...
The objective of this study is to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immunization services across the life course.
Brief countries on how to build and implement a continuous improvement plan (cIP)
In this session, we will review the technical aspects of 30DTR (FridgeTag). And you will learn how to optimize your 30DTR data through using support tools such as the Varo App and Pogo App, which are...
Ces recommandations provisoires concernent le vaccin anti-COVID-19 mis au point par Novavax et Serum Institute of India qui utilise la plateforme Novavax de nanoparticules de protéines recombinantes...
Final agenda as of February 7, 2022. Includes registration link
La gestion effective des vaccins (GEV) est un processus national de planification du PEV approuvé et appuyé par l’OMS et l’UNICEF pour évaluer et hiérarchiser les améliorations à apporter...
La gestion effective des vaccins (GEV) est un processus national de planification du PEV approuvé et appuyé par l’OMS et l’UNICEF pour évaluer et hiérarchiser les améliorations à apporter...
This guide provides national Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) Managers with comprehensive guidance on how to use the continuous Improvement Plan (cIP) Development Tool to generate a list of...
How the Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) assessment tool was used to improve immunization supply chains in Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria and Syria
The intention of this case study is to reframe the continuous improvement plan (cIP) as a roadmap of action rather than a follow-up step to an Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) assessment, using...
Progress in the "Decade of Vaccines": The Role of GVIRF in Facilitating and Enhancing the R&D Component of the Global Vaccine Action Plan
Jean-Pierre Amorij (AH Consultancy), Norman Baylor (Biologics Consulting Group), Dilara Islam (AFRIMS), Gagandeep Kang (Christian Medical College), Beth Kirkpatrick (University of Vermont College of...
Vaccination Coverage Surveys: Challenges and opportunities:
- Where we need to be and why
- Where we are: experiences from recent surveys and from ‘less’ than optimally planned surveys
-...
In this session, we will review the technical aspects of 30DTR (FridgeTag). And you will learn how to optimize your 30DTR data through using support tools such as the Varo App and Pogo App, which are...
This presentation introduces Medexis eLMIS solution and a case study from Burundi.
The costing tool enables the user to estimate the value of incremental (additional) resources required to add oral cholera vaccination campaigns to an existing immunization programme. The CholTool is...
Webinar Announcement and Registration Link
Foire aux questions du webinaire sur la nouvelle formulation du vaccin Pfizer BioNTech contre la COVID-19 : incidences sur la gestion du vaccin, la chaîne d’approvisionnement et l’assistance...
This is the presentation used during the first session of the 'Learning Collective Initiative’ in Covid 19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership ( CoVDP).
The document summarises progress and challenges with achieving universal immunisation coverage in 2021.
Webinaire: Estimation des coûts d'une stratégie nationale de vaccination (SNV)
Rédaction de la version préliminaire des termes de référence (TdR) pour l'équipe chargée de l'élaboration de la stratégie nationale de vaccination (SNV)