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Vaccination is amongst the best strategies to improve child survival and reduce morbidity. Vaccines represent the most cost effective and simple intervention to protect against distressing epidemics....
Chronic hepatitis B infection affects over 240 million people worldwide, with long-term morbidity such as cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounting for around 600,000 deaths annually...
Recombinant hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) particles derived from Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were stored at various conditions for 12-18 months in their naked form or adsorbed to alum...
This report presents communication guidance and specific considerations for countries that plan to introduce human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine into their national immunization programme. New vaccine...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication abstract: The National Immunization Survey (NIS) provides state-level estimates of preschool immunization coverage. These coverages are frequently presented...
CONTEXT: Negative vaccination-related information online leads some to opt out of recommended vaccinations. OBJECTIVE: To determine how HPV vaccine information is presented online and what concepts...
Many serious diseases lack safe and effective vaccines. Using a large commercial database, we examined trends in global vaccine research and development and found that the proportion of new vaccine...
Introduction
Influenza presents additional burdens for children with chronic respiratory conditions. Influenza vaccinations may reduce complications, yet approximately half of children remain...
The World Health Organization identified infectious healthcare waste as a threat to the environment and human health. India\'s current medical waste management system has limitations, which lead to...
Vaccination represents a cost-effective weapon for disease prevention and has proven to dramatically reduce the incidences of several diseases that once were responsible for significant mortality and...
A qualitative study design was adapted to explore the challenges faced by health workers (HWs) during the polio health campaign. In addition, HWs’ opinions about the factors causing parents to...
Routine vaccination of pregnant women and children must remain a priority during the covid-19 pandemic response. The UK and other countries could experience outbreaks of measles and other vaccine...
Pregnant women are at risk for the same infectious diseases as nonpregnant individuals and often have increased morbidity and mortality associated with infection. Thus, immunizing women during...
Lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) surveys are commonly used for monitoring and evaluation in resource-limited settings. Recently several methods have been proposed to combine LQAS with cluster...
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...
Neisseria meningitidis is an important cause of invasive bacterial infection in children worldwide. Although serogroup C meningococcal disease has all but disappeared in the past decade as a direct...
Viral hepatitis is a serious health problem all over the world. However, the reduction of the morbidity and mortality due to vaccinations against hepatitis A and hepatitis B has been a major...
This paper summarizes evaluation of whether DPT and DPT-IPV from Connaught Laboratories Ltd. are visually altered by freezing in response to concern that some adsorbed DPT products can be visually...
Antigens contained in vaccines are inherently unstable biologically; such a characteristic is conferred by their three-dimensional structure. Preserving the ability of the vaccines to protect against...
PURPOSE: Data confirm that high rates of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination have not been achieved despite strong clinician endorsement of the vaccine. We conducted a study of primary care...
Third dose diphtheria tetanus pertussis (DTP3) administrative coverage is a commonly used indicator for immunization program performance, although studies have demonstrated data quality issues with...
A field trial to assess the effectiveness of a reminder sticker in reducing immunization dropout rates was conducted in two districts of Addis Ababa between 14 October 1991 and 31 January 1992. A...
Pooling of controls under nested-case control settings can produce substantial efficiency gains compared to standard time-matched analysis using the Mantel-Haenszel method or conditional logistic...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of a client-centered behavioral intervention (Brief Negotiated Interviewing) on mothers\' human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine knowledge and vaccination initiation for...
Background: The Demographic and Health
Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) are the
major data sources in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for
evaluating health...
Pneumonia is a public health problem in the tropics, and the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugative vaccine (PCV-7) has been introduced in an effort to prevent the disease and therefore reduce childhood...
This journal article presents key findings from a survey of 43 countries about the status of NLWGs. The study was conducted by the WHO-UNICEF Immunization Supply Chain Hub.
Orally-administered cholera vaccine (OCV) has been increasingly examined as an additional tool to intervene against endemic and epidemic cholera. In 2013, short- and long-term field experience with...
OBJECTIVE: This qualitative study aimed to identify doctors\' and nurses\' perceptions of patient-, provider-, and system-level factors associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine completion...
Vaccination has proven to be an invaluable means of preventing infectious diseases by reducing both incidence of disease and mortality. However, vaccines have not been effectively developed for many...
Achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals is dependent on increasing take-up of preventive public health services (PHSs) in developing countries. Poor country governments often...
We conducted the first US study using graphic-output temperature data loggers in quantifying cold chain failure. Fifty-four vaccine refrigerators of a county outpatient health system were studied....
The researchers conducted the first US study using graphic-output temperature data loggers in quantifying cold chain failure. Fifty-four vaccine refrigerators of a county outpatient health system...
The researchers conducted the first US study using graphic-output temperature data loggers in quantifying cold chain failure. Fifty-four vaccine refrigerators of a county outpatient health system...
Background In high-income countries, substantial differences exist in vaccine uptake relating to socioeconomic status, gender, ethnic group, geographic location and religious belief. This paper...
Abstract
Background
In 2014, over half (54%) of the world’s population lived in urban areas and this proportion will increase to 66% by 2050. This urbanizing trend has been accompanied by...
Whooping cough, due to Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis, is an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Despite widespread pertussis immunization in childhood, there are...
What do we know, and how can we optimize vaccine-mediated protection for neonates?
Zanzibar, in east Africa, has been severely and repeatedly affected by cholera since 1978. The researchers assessed the effectiveness of oral cholera vaccination in high-risk populations in the...
BACKGROUND: In mass vaccination campaigns- large volumes of data must be managed efficiently and accurately. In a reactive oral cholera vaccination (OCV) campaign in rural Haiti during an ongoing...
BACKGROUND: Improving the quality of physicians\' recommendations for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is critical to addressing low coverage. Thus, we sought to describe HPV vaccine...
Health information systems in most countries are inadequate in providing the needed management support and the current health information systems are therefore widely seen as management obstacles...
Home-based records (HBRs), which take many forms, serve as an important tool for frontline health workers by providing a standardized patient history vital to making informed decisions about the need...
CONTEXT: Use of Immunization information systems (IISs) by providers can improve vaccination rates by identifying missed opportunities. However, provider reporting of children\'s vaccination...
BACKGROUND: Revised Australian guidelines have been announced under the Renew(®) program to commence screening at 25 years of age with HPV testing in 5-yearly intervals, in 2017. We conducted a...
Assessing immunization rates and improving practices. CASA and the 'key steps' model.
Childhood immunisation services have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO recommends considering outbreak risk using epidemiological criteria when deciding whether to conduct preventive...
BACKGROUND: To measure the uptake of first invitation to cervical screening by vaccine status in a population-based cohort offered HPV immunisation in a national catch-up campaign.
METHODS: A...