6 October 2023, Vol. 98, No. 40, pp. 471–488 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 471 Global leishmaniasis surveillance, 2022: assessing trends over the past 10 years 6 octobre 2023, Vol. 98, No. 40, pp. 471-488 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 471 Surveillance mondiale de la leishmaniose, 2022: évaluatio...

OCTOBER 4, 2023 IN THIS ISSUE The AIRA National Meeting Is Back!Register for AIRA’s Members and Partners Meeting A Webinar Brought to You by Our Diamond Corporate Member, Moderna Register Today for AIRA’s Discovery Session: Improving Immunization Data Quality Through EHR and IIS Collaboration!Your SnapShot of IIS Communi...

Volume 17, Issue 9 - September 2023The Measles and Rubella Bulletin is a monthly publication reporting progress towards achieving measles and rubella elimination in the Western Pacific Region. Inside each issue, we present the latest reported data by country on measles and rubella incidence, surveillance performance, and...

Dates: 4-7 July 2023 Venue: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Participating countries: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, Madagascar, Mozambique Outcomes: During the 4-day meeting, the ARCC members led by Prof Rose Leke reviewed the situation of polio eradication globally and in the African Region, the response ...

Dates: 12-15 June 2023 Venue: Brazzaville, CONGOFifteen participating countries: EPI Managers, Data Managers, Surveillance Officers, Laboratory Officers. Facilitators:WHO; UNICEF; CDC; MRF (Meningitis Research Foundation); CoMO (Confederation of Meningitis Organizations); PATH Outcomes: Tremendous efforts made in the past two decades ...

Dates: 22-29/06/2023More than 90 surveillance, laboratory, immunization, and communication professionals, from different health regions of the country, participated in the workshop entitled” Standard Operating Procedures of the WHO in response to a poliovirus event or outbreak, and implementation of the recommendations for strengthening polio surve...

Dates: 24 – 31 July 2023Participants: Immunization, maternal and child health and planning Managers of the Minister of Health, Mali (National and regional), WHO, UNICEF (HQs, ROs, COs)Background: The lot quality assurance-cluster sampling (LQA-CS) survey, which validated maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination (MNTE) in the six...

COVID-19 vaccines have been developed in record time, but deployment has varied across countries due to differences in health system capacity, demand for the vaccine, and the purchasing power of countries. The aim is to synthesize experiences on service delivery and integration to inform future COVID-19 vaccination programming and for the knowledge...

PAHO’s Comprehensive Immunization Special Program has redesigned and relaunched the Immunization Newsletter, a regular publication on the status of immunization in the Region of the Americas since 1979. On its 44th birthday, the layout was completely redesigned and a social media campaign helped relaunch this flagship publication with its latest is...

In order to support countries with their vaccination-related risk communications and community engagement, PAHO has developed technical guidelines, “Communicating about Vaccination-Related Risks”. This document includes practical recommendations and lessons learned on the processes and principles of risk communication and community engagement, mess...

PAHO’s Special Program for Integrated Immunization (CIM) is pleased to announce the new electronic dashboard for the visualization of poliomyelitis data is now available to all our users. We are confident that our tool will prove valuable and effective in supporting data-driven decision making. The dashboard has four tabs: Risk Assessment, Surveill...

At the outset of the EYE Strategy in 2017, EYE's key partners - WHO, UNICEF and Gavi - committed to a mid-term evaluation in 2022.An independent mid-term evaluation (managed by the WHO Evaluation Office) was undertaken to assess EYE’s progress, since its launch in 2017, and to provide recommendations for the way forward. The aim of the mid-t...

Yellow fever preventive mass vaccination campaign in Jigawa State in Nigeria. August 2023. © WHO (World Health Organization) NigeriaEYE Strategy August newsletterWeekly Epidemiological Record (WER)Distribution of confirmed yellow fever cases and outbreaks, Africa, 2022. © Pan-American Hea...

Several new vaccines including Rotavirus vaccine and Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV), were introduced under the Universal Immunization Program (UIP) in Bihar. The most recent introduction was PCV in 2017, in selected districts, with subsequent expansion across the states in 2018. During the COVID 19 pandemic, routine immunization (RI) activiti...

The PAHO Revolving Fund for Access to Vaccines (RFV) launched a new digital demand planning platform to Member States in Latin America and the Caribbean during a regional workshop held on 4-6 July in Panama City. The new digital demand planning module aims to replace the current excel-based demand tool and update the way member states plan and fore...

29 September 2023, Vol. 98, No. 39, pp. 453–470 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 453 Progress in eliminating onchocerciasis in the WHO Region of the Americas: Advances towards interrupting the transmission of onchocerciasis from the latest preliminary serological assessments conducted in parts of ...

Dear all,After a break in August, here are the updates for both August and September. Feel free to forward to NITAG members and secretariat.COVID-19: ACIP recommends 2023–2024 (monovalent, XBB containing) COVID-19 vaccines as authorized under EUA or approved by BLA in persons ≥6 months of age. This recommendation has been adopted by...

AFP surveillance training in MalaysiaFollowing request from the Ministry of Health of Malaysia on 19-21 September 2023 WHO organized training on surveillance for Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) for national and state level health care workers both public health and clinicians.Read more in the latest issue of t...

VACCINE ACCESS DIGEST | SEPTEMBER 2023NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTSAs Respiratory Illnesses Rise, Vaccine Access is More Important Than Ever With flu season around the corner and expected upticks in cases of COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), we can anticipate a perfect storm of respiratory viruses — of...

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