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In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to Member States on health policy matters, WHO publishes vaccine position papers providing global vaccine and immunization recommendations for...
Annex 17 Generating Consensus Sequences with Sequencher
Workshop presentation
T. Cherian, D. Durrheim, W. Moss, W. Orenstein, H. Rees
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...
Parmi les cibles fixées dans le Plan d’action mondial pour les vaccins 2011-2020 figurait l’élimination de la rubéole dans 5 des 6 Régions de l’OMS à l’horizon 2020, et l’OMS...
The Global Vaccine Action Plan 2011–2020 included a target to achieve elimination of rubella in at least 5 of the 6 WHO regions by 2020, and WHO recommends capitalizing on the accelerated measles...
Supported by GAVI Alliance, measles-rubella vaccination was introduced in Vietnam in 2014, involving a mass campaign among 1-14 year olds and routine immunization of children aged 9 months. We...
Few countries in Africa currently include rubella-containing vaccination (RCV) in their immunization schedule. The Global Alliance for Vaccines Initiative (GAVI) recently opened a funding window that...
Rubella is generally a mild childhood disease, but infection during early pregnancy may cause spontaneous abortion or congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), which may entail a variety of birth defects....
Rubella is a contagious viral disease with few complications except when contracted by pregnant women. Rubella infection in pregnancy can result in miscarriage, stillbirth or an infant born with...
Vaccinating populations against rubella aims to mitigate viral circulation and to ensure that women of childbearing age are immunized to reduce the incidence of congenital rubella syndrome. This...
This document is intended for use by national immunization programme
managers and immunization partners involved in operational support.
General guidance about planning the introduction of a...
Putting safety first:ensuring safe vaccination practices during the 2006 rubella campaign in Bolivia
Over 3 weeks in 2006, 3826083 persons were vaccinated against rubella during a national immunization campaign in Bolivia. This campaign was the largest mass immunization campaign ever conducted in...
The study concludes that the use of rapid coverage monitoring clearly contributed to the success of the national vaccination campaign to eliminate rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Brazil....
For millennia, humans have sought and found purpose, solace, values, understanding, and fellowship in religious practices. Buddhist nuns performed variolation against smallpox over 1000 years ago....
Rubella virus infection is transmitted by respiratory droplets and causes a generally mild disease characterized by a rash and fever, primarily in children. However, infection in women during early...
The Global Immunization Meeting: Protect, Innovate, Accelerate was organized jointly by WHO and UNICEF and served as forum to update the global immunization community on implementing the new...
OBJECTIVE: To describe an adapted version of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) methodology for rapid monitoring of vaccination coverage and its use as a supervisory tool to guide...