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This study aims at identifying the associated factors and assessing the inequalities of full vaccination coverage (FVC) among Peruvian infants aged 12-23 months during the COVID-19 pandemic in a nationally representative sample.
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...
Current live, oral rotavirus vaccines (LORVs) are reducing severe diarrhea in all settings, but they are not as effective in places with the highest burden. Alternative approaches in advanced clinical development include injectable next-generation...
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)
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
Abstract Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading cause of bacterial pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis in children worldwide. Despite available evidence on pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) impact on pneumonia hospitalizations in children, studies...
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Peru
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...
There is little information about vaccine schedule compliance in very-low-birth-weight infants in developing countries. The aim of the study was to describe the compliance with the vaccine schedule among this population in Lima, Peru.
- Category: Service delivery
- Country: Peru
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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
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Statistical Training on Vaccination Coverage Surveys - Dakar, Senegal: 24-27 January 2017
The Global Immunization Newsletter posted this article in February 2017. I share it with you in its entirety. Participants: Persons from Immunization Programmes, Na
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Costing Study Helps Optimize Warehousing and Transportation in Peru
In 2015, Peru’s Ministry of Health (MOH), in partnership with the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, implemented and co-funded a costing study for warehousing and transportation in La Libertad Region. The
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Gates Foundation awards a further $1.7 million to inspire supply chain innovation
by Raja Rao and Joseph Torres, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation In November last year, 17 different proposals on how to optimize immunization systems were each awarded $100,000 by the [url=http://www.
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Polio Monthly Situation Report (September 2011)
Dear colleagues,? Please find attached the Monthly Situation Report as usual and visit [url=http://www.polioeradication.org/]www.polioeradication.org[/url] for regular updates on the Global Polio E
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Improving UIP in India
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USAID/DELIVER PROJECT: Regional Institutes Initiative
Since 1994, with USAID funding, JSI has conducted international courses on supply chain management of health commodities. These training activities have been a pivotal part of the supply chain support
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Optimizing presentation and packaging for HPV vaccines
Optimizing presentation and packaging for HPV vaccines[i]by Debbie Kristensen and D. Scott LaMontagne, PATH[/i] Working in collaboration with the [url=http://sites.google.com/site/vppagp/Home]Vaccine
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Swine Flu: List of the Hospitals in India
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POST 01396E: GLOBAL IMMUNIZATION MEETING 2009— PRESENTATION
POST 01396E: GLOBAL IMMUNIZATION MEETING 2009— PRESENTATIONS 28 FEBRUARY 2009 ****************************************** The fourth Annual Global Immunization Meeting was held in New Yor
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Home-based record (HBR): Peru 2011 (male)
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- Country: Peru
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Home-based record (HBR): Peru 2011 (female)
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- Country: Peru
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