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Globally, an estimated 23 million children missed vaccination in 2020 due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This article analyzes vaccination coverage trends and catch-up strategies/recommendations implemented in Latin America...
Introduction The Global Vaccine Action Plan and the Regional Immunization Action Plan of the Americas call for countries to improve immunization data quality. Immunization information systems, particularly electronic immunization registries (EIRs),...
- Category: Data
- Country: Peru, Mexico
- Organisation: Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP)
Three highly effective vaccines are available to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, and they have been introduced in many countries around the world. This article describes advances and challenges in introducing HPV vaccines in the...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Venezuela Bolivarian Republic Of, Mexico, Ecuador, Chile
- Organisation: WHO
Background: A 9-valent human papillomavirus (HPV6/11/16/18/31/33/45/52/58; 9vHPV) vaccine was developed to expand coverage of the previously developed quadrivalent (HPV6/11/16/18; qHPV) vaccine. Methods: Efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety outcomes...
- Category: Vaccines & delivery devices
- Country: Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile
The synchronized introduction of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and the switch from trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) has constituted an effort without precedents, and with astonishing results. Within the...
- Category: Programme management
- Country: Venezuela Bolivarian Republic Of, Uruguay, United States, Turks And Caicos Islands, Trinidad And Tobago, Suriname, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Saint Pierre And Miquelon, Saint Kitts And Nevis, Puerto Rico, Peru, Paraguay, Panama, Nicaragua, Montserrat, Mexico, Martinique, Jamaica, Honduras, Haiti, Guyana, Guatemala, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, Cayman Islands, Canada, Brazil, Bolivia Plurinational State Of, Bermuda, Belize, Barbados, The Bahamas, Aruba, Argentina, Antigua And Barbuda, Anguilla
- Organisation: WHO
BACKGROUND: Recent outbreaks of measles in the Americas have received news and popular attention, noting the importance of vaccination to population health. To estimate the potential increase in immunization coverage and reduction in days at risk...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador
BACKGROUND: A recently developed 10-valent pneumococcal non-typeable H influenzae protein D-conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV) is expected to afford protection against more than two thirds of isolates causing IPD in children in Latin America, and also...
Introduction: Origins and Definitions International cooperation for purposes of infectious and tropical disease control goes back to at least the 14th century, when early concepts of quarantine were introduced in Dubrovnik on the Adriatic Coast...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Viet Nam, Thailand, Korea South, Pakistan, Mexico, Japan, Iran Islamic Republic Of, Indonesia, India, Egypt, Cuba, China, Brazil, Afghanistan
- Organisation: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, WHO
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication abstract:Objective. To assess vaccination coverage of children and adolescents. Materials and methods. Study based on National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012. Results. Coverage in <1 year old infants...
- Category: Programme management
- Country: Mexico
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New WHA resolution on access to Medicines and Vaccines
Dear All, So pleased to share the great news that yesterday, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines and other health
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PAHO has released a new Article: Improving immunization data quality in Peru and Mexico: Two case studies highlighting challenges and lessons learned
PAHO has released a new Article: Improving immunization data quality in Peru and Mexico: Two case studies highlighting challenges and lessons learned. Available here:
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Summary of GVAP session at the WHO 138th Executive Board
Twenty-three speakers including 21 representatives from Member States (i.e. 15[2]), and two civil society organizations[4] and took
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Member States Delegates discuss progress towards global immunization goals at the 67th WHA
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2014 Health and Humanitarian Logistics (HHL) Professional Education Certificate series
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GVAP to receive endorsement at World Health Assembly
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The global network for the post-marketing surveillance of vaccine
Cross-posted from the January 2012 issue of GIN with thanks. 31/01/2012 from Madhav Balakrishnan, WHO HQ The Global Network for Post-marketing Surveillance (PMS) of Vacc
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How Accurate Weather Data Can Strengthen Logistics
[i]by Steve McCarney, PATH[/i] Chihuahua, Mexico, just south of the US border, is so predictably sunny, one hardly needs to consult a newspaper to predict the weather. Chances are it will be sunny
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POST 01283E: IMPACT OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ON HEALTH
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POST 01131E : TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICES - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
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Home-based record (HBR): Mexico 2014 (women)
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- Country: Mexico
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Home-based record (HBR): Mexico 2014 (men)
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- Country: Mexico
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