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This review article aims to examine the impact of pandemics on childhood vaccination programs, specifically looking at the examples of polio and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The article...
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) threat is subsiding through extensive vaccination worldwide. However, the pandemic imposed major disruptions in global immunization programs and has aggravated the...
The 2021 WHO and UNICEF Estimates of National Immunization Coverage (WUENIC) reported approximately 25 million under-vaccinated children in 2021, out of which 18 million were zero-dose children who...
JSI’s Universal Immunization through Improving Family Health Services (UI-FHS) project in Ethiopia, published in the journal Global Health: Science and Practice. The project used innovative...
Effective immunization supply chain (iSC) is crucial for safe and timely transport of potent vaccines to the beneficiary.
India’s iSC, with a network of ~29,000 cold chain points (CCP), measures...
Le présent document remplace la précédente note de synthèse sur les vaccins anti-hépatite A, publiée par l’OMS en 2012. Il contient des recommandations sur l’utilisation hors indications de...
This document replaces the 2012 WHO position paper on hepatitis A vaccines. It contains off-label recommendations.
The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 is a threat to various routine healthcare services. India’s routine immunization (RI) campaign is one of largest ever known. In this review, we discuss the...
Objectives: To establish the impact of ‘‘Covid-19 Vaccination express” (CVE) on vaccine uptake in Malawi.
Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study to compare the daily vaccine...
There is a lack of comprehensive and systematic data and evidence regarding the effectiveness of mandatory and incentive-based vaccination schemes. The results of such programs in some countries have...
Strengthening data use and quality is critical to achieving high, equitable immunization coverage. One approach that is being increasingly recognized as effective in improving data use and quality is...
The Consortium aims to deliver a more sustainable, efficent, and transparent approach to generating disease burden and vaccine impact estimates. It works on aggregating the estimates across a...
The COVID-19 pandemic has decreased uptake of pediatric preventive care, including immunizations. This study estimates the prevalence of missed pediatric routine medical visits and vaccinations over...
Pandemi Covid-19 sangat memengaruhi pelayanan imunisasi di seluruh dunia. Tenaga kesehatan dialihkan untuk
pelayanan Covid-19 dan orangtua merasa takut membawa anaknya untuk imunisasi ke fasilitas...
Presented as a set of published discussion papers. Main theme areas examine immunization equity from the perspectives of: Universal Health Coverage, gender, conflict, urban, rural and remote...
A case study that demonstrates the importance of health inequality monitoring for equity-oriented policies, programmes and practices.
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the vaccination numbers for immunization geared toward individuals under 12 months of age in Brazil. This study analyzed the...
Le présent document remplace la note de synthèse de 2016 de l’OMS relative au premier vaccin homologué contre la dengue, le CYD-TDV. En novembre 2017, les résultats d’une analyse...
Cette note de synthèse actualisée sur les
vaccins contre l’encéphalite japonaise (EJ)
remplace la note de 2006 résumant la position de l’OMS sur le même sujet; elle
renferme...
La pandémie COVID-19 a poussé le monde à mettre en œuvre des méthodes de prévention drastiques basées sur la limitation des mouvements des populations ayant un impact sur les politiques de...
Conformément à son mandat, qui prévoit qu’elle conseille les États Membres en matière de politique sanitaire, l’OMS publie une série de notes de synthèse régulièrement mises à jour sur...
In March 2020, England went into its first lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Restrictions eased temporarily, followed by second and third waves in October 2020 and January 2021. Recent...
La COVID-19 est une infection pandémique émergente dont l’importante capacité à se propager dans une population dénuée d’immunité n’est plus à prouver. La première réponse des États...
Preventing vaccine freezing is one of the biggest challenges in vaccine management. Until 2018, vaccine carriers used in the immunization program lacked features to prevent vaccine freezing....
In 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic and lockdown control measures threatened to disrupt routine childhood immunisation programmes with early reports suggesting uptake would fall. In response,...
In the final months of 2021, deaths due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) surpassed 5 million globally. Available data suggest that even this staggering figure may be a substantial...
Vital Surveillances: Effectiveness of Catch-Up Vaccinations after COVID-19 Containment — China, 2020
In the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in China, the highest level of public health emergency response (Level 1 Response) was launched in all province-level...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected national healthcare systems worldwide, with around 282 million cumulative confirmed cases reported in over 220 countries and territories as of the end of 2021. The...
Routine vaccination has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 37% of countries reporting continuing disruptions to vaccination services into 2021. In the face of these disruptions,...
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...
Ensuring the high coverage of immunization and high performance of surveillance are essential to maintaining the Indonesia’s polio-free status. However, the negative impact of the pandemic on the...
This research examines changes in vaccination of children younger than 1 year during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (March 2020–August 2021) in Haiti, Lesotho, Liberia and Malawi.
To support the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine, the World Health Organization and its partners developed an interactive virtual learning initiative through which vaccination stakeholders could...
Analyzing immunization coverage data is crucial to guide decision-making in national immunization programs and monitor global initiatives such as the Immunization Agenda 2030. We aimed to assess the...
This study aimed to examine childhood vaccination delay, explore the association between vaccination delay and parental vaccine hesitancy, and assess childhood vaccination delays during the...
Objective Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) are a significant contributor to low vaccination coverage. To better understand the magnitude and underlying causes of MOV among children aged...
The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 is a threat to various routine healthcare services. India’s routine immunization (RI) campaign is one of largest ever known. In this review, we discuss the...
In The Lancet, Kate Causey and colleagues report their estimates of the disruptions to routine childhood immunisation coverage for the third-dose diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP3) vaccine and...
This FAQ document is to be read alongside the NIS Guidelines. The aim is to update this periodically as additional questions come up from countries using the new guidelines and sharing their...
Reaching zero-dose children (infants who receive no routine vaccinations) is a global strategic priority. We studied zero-dose children in India over 24 years to clarify aggregate trends and the...
Zero to 19 year-old children in sub-Saharan Africa bear a disproportionate proportion of the global burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Significant public health gains have been...
Annual reported measles incidence decreased globally during 2000–2016, increased in all regions during 2017–2019, then decreased in 2020. Measles surveillance, already suboptimal, worsened in...
Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunization: experience from Pakistan
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine childhood immunization coverage for many vaccine-preventable diseases at the global, regional and national levels. In Pakistan, more than 40 million...
Childhood immunisation is one of the most cost-effective health interventions. However, despite its known value, global access to vaccines remains far from complete. Although supply-side constraints...
En marzo 2020, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) hizo
un llamado a mantener la vacunación programática siempre que se
pudieran garantizar condiciones seguras frente a la circulación...
This series of reports presents an assessment of the extent of COVID-19-related impact on childhood vaccinations based on both (a) aggregated vaccine counts of dose 1 Hexavalent and dose 1 MMR...
Sustained Vaccination Coverage during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Epidemic in the Republic of Korea
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination coverage may decline due to limited accessibility to healthcare. This study assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vaccination coverage and the...