Guidance

Principles and considerations for adding a vaccine to a national immunization programme - From decision to implementation and monitoring

This essential resource document reviews the principles and issues to be considered when making decisions about planning and implementing the introduction of a vaccine into a national immunization programme. Importantly, the document highlights ways to use the opportunity provided by the vaccine introduction to strengthen immunization and health systems. The comprehensive guidance also describes the latest references and tools related to vaccine decision-making, economic analyses, cold chain, integrated disease control and health promotion, vaccine safety, communications, monitoring, and more, and provides key URL links to many of these resources.

Languages

  • Arabic
  • English
  • French
  • Russian
  • Spanish

Publication year

2014

Type

Guidance

By EVM criterion

EPI-CORE-ROUTINE

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New Vaccine Post-Introduction Evaluation ToolWorld Health Organization (WHO)2010GuidanceEnglish
Periodic Intensification of Routine Immunisation (PIRI): Lessons learned and implications for actionWorld Health Organization (WHO), United States Agency for International Development (USAID)2009PresentationEnglish
Principes directeurs de la reprise, de la promotion de la résilience et du renforcement de la vaccination en 2022 et au-delàWorld Health Organization (WHO)2022GuidanceFrench
Principles and considerations for adding a vaccine to a national immunization programme - From decision to implementation and monitoringWorld Health Organization (WHO)2014GuidanceArabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Reducing pain at the time of vaccination: WHO position paperWorld Health Organization (WHO)2015Journal articleEnglish, French
Standard Competencies Framework for the Immunization Workforce - Immunization Program Competencies Initiative: Supporting the objective of the Expanded Program on ImmunizationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2018GuidanceEnglish
WHO recommendations for routine immunization - summary tablesWorld Health Organization (WHO)2020RepositoryEnglish
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