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On 7 October 2022, WHO published an updated Hepatitis A vaccines position paper to replace the 2012 hepatitis A position published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record . The updated paper, based on...
Dear viewers - sharing the following for needful Universally it is very well known that vaccination is one of the most cost effective public health programme from control to eradication of Vaccine...
Deleted User - 2013
Around 12 million people in Pakistan are suffering from hepatitis B and C, with Balochistan topping the list followed by Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan has the highest therapeutic use...
Moderator - 2011
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization was established by the Director-General of the World Health Organization in 1999 to provide guidance on the work of the WHO...
Moderator - 2011
Steve Wiersma shares some "tools" to help you organise the World Hepatitis Day. Additionally, links and useful material has been cross posted from SIGN with many...
Optimize.WHO - 2011
[i] by Simona Zipursky, PATH; Christoph Conrad, WHO/Quality, Safety & Standards; Tony Richardson, CDC/Vaccine Supply & Assurance Branch[/i] They call it the Decade of Vaccines for a reason. More...
Moderator - 2011
Epidemiologists and public health researchers from multiple institutions are collaborating to gather and analyze the best available data on deaths and sick days caused by over 100 diseases and...
Moderator - 2011
[i]Background:[/i] In 2010 the 63rd World Health Assembly called for a comprehensive response to viral hepatitis. As mandated by the WHA, from 2011 onwards, World Hepatitis Day is promoted on 28...
Moderator - 2010
[i]Many thanks to Steven Wiersma for this note.[/i] [i] [/i] May 19 has been commemorated as the World Hepatitis Day for the last three years. On this day in 2010, the World Health Assembly is...
Alex Lee - 2009
[b]Temperature Monitoring Study To Commence in Vietnam and Uganda[/b] [i]by Joanie Robertson, Huong Vu and James Cheyne, PATH [/i]While some vaccines will lose their potency if they are stored at...
Moderator - 2008
POST 01268E: WORLD HEPATITIS DAY 19 MAY 2008 ******************************************* Chronic viral hepatitis can no longer be ignored. The figures are rather staggering. Take a look at...
Moderator - 2004
POST 00706E : ACCIDENTAL NEEDLESTICK Follow-up on Post 00701E 15 August 2004 _______________________________ Two replies were received following Vladimir's Petrovic's posting (00701E). The...