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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 is the 3rd session of the Life Course and integration webinar series.
The Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) aims to ensure that all people benefit from recommended immunizations throughout...
This practical guide, developed by WHO in consultation with partners, is intended to provide direction to immunization programme managers and other national health programmes on how to improve the...
Health outcomes in urban areas are generally better than those in rural areas, but when outcomes in urban areas are disaggregated, large disparities exist between the richest and poorest. Current...
Estrategias de cadenas de suministro de inmunización (ISC) para recuperar terreno y reducir las oportunidades perdidas de vacunación (MOV)
Timely vaccination is important for ensuring populations are fully protected against life-threatening illnesses as early as possible, and preventing large outbreaks of VPDs. Yet, scheduled...
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State and local school vaccination requirements serve to protect students against vaccine-preventable diseases...
This article discusses some aspects of the recovery of vaccination coverage in Spain for different groups: children, adolescents and adults, and patients at risk and in special situations.
Disturbances are occurring in healthcare, trade, and travel, with countries closing off their borders due to the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) in the world. The pandemic has its...
The goal of this study was to assess the change in children’s and adolescents’ prevention and vaccination behaviors amid China’s COVID-19 epidemic.
The aim of this study was to assess the magnitude of childhood vaccination disruption and to determine the predictors of delaying childhood vaccinations during the coronavirus disease ...
Like the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic could be regarded as a child-rights crisis because it could have life-threatening impact over children, who need immunization, now and in the long-term....
Since COVID-19 in the pediatric population is infrequently severe, the indirect costs of the pandemic, related to the measures implemented to deal with the spread of the virus, can be worse than the...
The COVID-19 global pandemic is having a widespread impact on medical care. A general reduction, in routine vaccination activities, could occur. In Tuscany (Central Italy), paediatricians (in...
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting national and international public health. Routine childhood immunization may be adversely affected by COVID-19 mitigation measures. We aimed to identify the...
The present study was conducted to determine whether theCOVID-19 pandemic control measures have affected vaccine coverage rates at the main university hospital in Saudi Arabia.
Objective: To examine recent vaccination trends among Brazilian children during their first year of life, and the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on these...
Reducing Childhood Immunization to Scale Up COVID-19 Immunization in Low- and Lower Middle-Income Countries: Impact on Under-Five Mortality
In Canada, the COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted many routine health services, placed additional strain on the health care system, and resulted in many Canadians being either unable or unwilling to...
This study aimed to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parents' behaviour towards their children's scheduled vaccinations.
This web-based cross-sectional study recruited 1,143...
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Despite efforts to improve childhood immunization coverage in Nigeria, coverage has remained below the national acceptable level. In December 2019, we conducted an assessment of Missed...
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted measles immunisation in Africa, increasing risk of outbreaks among children in some countries. Sanjeet Bagcchi reports.
This study compared the most used sources of information by caregivers for scheduled childhood vaccination in Saudi Arabia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and examined the effect of this...
Using information available through routine health information systems (RHIS), Data for Impact (D4I) assessed the effects of COVID-19 on health service use in Bangladesh more than a year into the...
The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges for healthcare services and has led to changes in the usage pattern of the pediatric population. This article aims to describe the impact of...
After the first COVID-19 case was diagnosed in March, 2020, child health service delivery and use declined in rural remote communities in Bangladesh. We retrieved annual data for 2019 and 2020 from...
The most common health worker behaviors that lead to MOV are: Failure to screen vaccination status during routine or curative visits; Confusion about eligibility for missed vaccinations; Confusion...
The impact of COVID-19-related disruption to vaccination programs varies between infections and countries. Planning and implementation of campaigns should consider country and infection-specific...
Background
Despite the remarkable achievements of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in Burkina Faso, numerous challenges remain, including missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) which...
Timely vaccination is important for ensuring populations are fully protected against life-threatening illnesses as early as possible, and preventing large outbreaks of VPDs. Yet, scheduled...
A key strategy to reduce MOV is to screen and vaccinate all children who are missing vaccinations—and this, in part, relies on informed and prepared caregivers. In this video, we will look at...
There are ways to reduce MOV, and vaccinate more children simply by improving the services they are already accessing. In order to identify the most effective interventions, it is important to...
This PPT resource outlines considerations for prioritizing strategies for restarting immunization services and and planning catch-up strategies specifically in the context of Covid-19 and makes...
In November 2016, the Kenya National Vaccines and Immunization Programme conducted an assessment of missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) using the World Health Organization (WHO) MOV...
Efforts to reduce missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) can increase immunization coverage by making better use of existing vaccination sites and services. As health workers and supervisors, it...
Every day, children around the world access our health services. They may be there to receive treatment, get a checkup, or just accompany a caregiver. But too often, they leave without something that...
Missed opportunities for immunization are an obstacle to raising immunization coverage among children
and women of childbearing age. To determine their global magnitude and reasons, studies reported...
In 2016, Kenya conducted a study of missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV)—when eligible children have contact with the health system but are not fully vaccinated—to explore some of the...
This case study describes the impact of changing to 5-dose measles containing vaccine in Zambia with improved coverage, lower wastage rate and no cold chain constraints.
In Cambodia, we assessed vaccine wastage-related vaccinator knowledge and practices.
Example of a vaccination calendar from Thailand that includes their accelerated schedule
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends standing orders for vaccinations—when used alone or when combined with additional interventions—to increase vaccination rates among...
Attaining high immunisation coverage rates for children with medical conditions is vital. The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) Immunisation Service has the opportunity to check each inpatient's...
The sample job aid is adapted from Timor Leste (IMMUNIZATIONbasics, 2007) and
is based on a child immunization schedule that calls for BCG and hepatitis B at birth; Pentavalent, oral polio vaccine...
This article describes findings from a Missed Opportunities for Vaccination (MOV) assessment in Timor Leste and how the country has been implementing the updated World Health Organization MOV...
To help immunization stakeholders make effective DPC decisions for their country context, the Dose Per Container Partnership (DPCP) has developed generalized information based on the partnership’s...
A guide to assist immunization providers with decisions regarding measles vaccination catch-up for the Australian community.