Simon Burton, Partho Roy, Norman K. Fry, David Litt, Gayatri Amirthalingam, Elise Tessier, Helen Campbell, Sonia Ribeiro, Yuma Rai
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...
Giovanni Rezza, Francesco Paolo Maraglino, Andrea Silenzi, Andrea Siddu, Carlo Signorelli, Anna Odone, Michela Sabbatucci
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...
The WHO is launching the new web-based and mobile-based equipment Inventory and Gap Analysis (IGA) application. Join us in a webinar to learn how this application can ease up the burden of...
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...
F.A. Moraga-Llop, M. Fernández-Prada, A.M. Grande-Tejada, L.I. Martínez-Alcorta, D. Moreno-Pérez, J.J. Pérez-Martín
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.
Marit Middeldorp, Alies van Lier, Nicoline van der Maas, Irene Veldhuijzen, Wieke Freudenburg, Nina M. van Sorge, Elisabeth A.M. Sanders, Mirjam J. Knola, Hester E. de Melkera
This study aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) and participation in the routine infant vaccination programme in the...
Ruth Burns, Lorna J Willocks, Linda Kerr, Jessica Miller, Anna A Jarchow-MacDonald
Vaccination teams all over the world grew concerned about how to ensure stable childhood immunisation rates once local COVID-19 outbreaks turned into national outbreaks. Childhood immunisation team...
Angela Bechini, Giuseppe Garamella, Barbara Giammarco, Beatrice Zanella, Valdo Flori, Paolo Bonanni, Sara Boccalini
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...
Sare İlbay, Osman Topaç, Nilüfer Tavukçu, Hasan Tezer, Elif Ayla Arabulan, Çiğdem Şimşek, Ateş Kara
Vaccination is the most effective and cost-efficient approach to protect both individual and community health. Decreased vaccination rates have been reported in many countries during the COVID-19...
Nora KatharinaSchmid-Küpke, Dorothea Matysiak-Klose, Anette Siedler, Lisa Felgendreff, Lothar Wieler, Heidrun M. Thaiss, Cornelia Betsch
Pandemic measures to mitigate the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany led to cancellations of routine vaccination appointments for both adults and children. Survey data indicate that, with easing...
Rocco Russo, Elena Bozzola, Paolo Palma, Giovanni Corsello, Alberto Villani
Background: COVID-19 pandemic was responsible for disrupting routine immunization activities all over the world. Aim of the study was to investigate the reduced adherence to the national children...
Antonio Ferro, Alberto Villani, Chiara Azzari, Elena Bozzola, Fausto Francia, Giampietro Chiamenti, Giorgio Conforti, Giovanni Vitali Rosati, Italo F. Angelillo, M. Barretta, Michele Conversano, Paolo Biasci, Paolo Bonanni, Paolo Castiglia, Pasquale G. Macrì, Rocco Russo, Silvestro Scotti, Tommasa Maio
The Board of the Vaccination Calendar for Life (Bonanni et al., 2014, 2017) [1], [2]), a coalition of four major scientific and professional societies of public health physicians, pediatricians and...
Sadie Bell, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Pauline Paterson, Richard Clarke
Results: The majority of survey respondents (85.7%) considered it important for their children to receive routine vaccinations on schedule during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, several barriers to...
Michael Edelstein, Mary Ramsay, Joanne Yarwood, Liam Smeeth, J Anthony Scott, Jemma L Walker, John Parry, Chris Bates, Charlotte Knowles, Matthew Woodruff, Joanne M White, Elise Tessier, Helen I McDonald
Using electronic health records, we assessed the early impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on routine childhood vaccination in England by 26 April 2020. Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination counts...
IIS is an online immunization information system that can record child immunizations and manage vaccine stock. In 2011, the Albanian Institute of Public Health deployed IIS in the northern Albanian...
Vaccination programmes provide a ‘passport to protection’ by establishing a record of a child’s life. By registering a child’s birth, a legal foundation is being laid for a person’s...
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Stellungnahme der Ständigen Impfkommission: Durchführung von empfohlenen Schutzimpfungen während der COVID-19-Pandemie.
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La HAS, en accord avec sa commission technique des vaccinations, considère primordial le maintien de l’ensemble des vaccinations obligatoires des nourrissons (à 2, 4, 5, 11, 12 et 16-18 mois)...
Iconic renewables company Dulas has announced a significant acquisition after shareholders recently voted to purchase 100% of Polestar Cooling, a specialist manufacturing plant based in Bognor Regis,...
So far, 14 major vaccination campaigns against polio, measles, cholera, HPV, yellow fever and meningitis have been postponed, as have four national vaccine introductions. To address this severe...
Upon request of the U.S. Agency for International Development/Central Asia Region (USAID/CAR) the AIDSTAR-One Project engaged two senior staff from JSI’s Making Medical Injection Safer (MMIS)...
This publication describes the innovative system that was developed in Kyrgyzstan and implemented in the frame of a bilateral cooperation project financed by the SDC. The system in the Kyrgyz...
The BID Initiative Learning Network (BLN) hosted a webinar which elaborated on the establishment, use, and added value of a web-based Immunization Information System (IIS) in Albania. The talk...
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination school-based programme for girls aged 12–13 years began in Ireland in 2010. Initially, the proportion of students who completed the vaccination course was...
Karen S.Tiley, Joanne M.White, Nick Andrews, Mary Ramsay, Michael Edelstein
Most children received their primary series according to schedule.
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Timeliness differences persisted for some ethnicities after adjusting for deprivation and area.
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Children...
Immunization programs are implemented according to the Expended Program of Immunization (EPI) in the WHO member countries. The cold-chain component of the program is just as important as the...
The Gavi CCEOP Technology Guide aims to provide you with clear advice on new CCE technologies to help you make purchasing decisions. It is intended for use in health facilities and lower levels of...
Article shows how introduction with Cervarix vaccine in Scotland led to strong reductions in HPV infection and CIN 2+ lesions in vaccinated women 10 years after start of introduction
Anika Singanayagam, Maria Zambon, Ajit Lalvani, Wendy Barclay
Conflicting reports have emerged about the effectiveness of the live attenuated influenza vaccine. The live attenuated influenza vaccine appears to protect particularly poorly against currently...
Objectives: Cold chain control is one of the most important facts to ensure the effectiveness of vaccines links, which requires specific material and human resources for management. The principal...
In Italy, in 2016, we conducted a cross-sectional survey to estimate vaccine hesitancy and investigate its determinants among parents of children aged 16-36 months. Data on parental attitudes and...
The administration of a vaccine dose involves a series of activities prior to and on the day of vaccine delivery. Total vaccination cost should include the cost of each activity, which is often not...
Background: Rotavirus is a highly contagious virus causing gastroenteritis, mostly in children under the age of 5. Since 2006, two vaccines are available in Germany. In 2013, these were included into...
Background: On Sept 1, 2008, Scotland launched routine vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18, targeted at 12–13-year-old girls, of whom 92·4% were fully vaccinated in...
BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY: The principles of „cold chain” have been developed for the safe transport and storage of vaccines because of their sensitivity to temperature and are guidelines...
Aid to health has been instrumental in improving health outcomes in many places; however, all of these gains could be undone by a mismanaged donor transition. If donors transition too early, or en...
Providing a good start in life and enabling children to achieve their full
potential and be physically and emotionally healthy provides the cornerstone
for a healthy, productive adulthood1.
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Jo Gwillim from Dulas Ltd presents an overview of the design challenges and solar sizing methodology used to ensure the new generation of Solar Direct Drive cold chain equipment perform reliably in...
Objectives: Protective antibodies levels, induced by Hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine, persist for long-term after primary immunization, but there is evidence that, as the time since vaccination...