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The WHO Department of Immunization Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) is pleased to announce the upcoming second webinar series on Why Gender Matters for Immunization: IA2030.
The Immunization Agenda 2030 e...
Discussions
As we approach the end of the Decade of Vaccines and with just a couple of years remaining on the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP 2011-2020), a new Immunization Agenda 2030 is needed for the entire health and development community – one that re-affirms the benefits of vaccines and immunizations for...
We must do more to make sure everyone has access to essential health services. Investing in #immunization can help strengthen health systems and advance #UHC. #ProtectedTogether #VaccinesWork
I’m sharing the good news from this week’s meeting of the Pan-African Parliamentarians (PAP) and AFRO to ad...
Hello, please check out recent feedback from the Immunization and vaccines related implementation research advisory committee (IVIR-AC) on the newly-launched WHO Market Information for Access Initiative (MI4A) and methodology:
"The initiative is providing a valuable public good that could shape mar...
WORLD IMMUNIZATION WEEK
VACCINES WORK
VVM is one of the greatest inventions in public health. It is the only tool among all time-temperature indicators that is available at any time in the process of distribution and at the time a vaccine is administered. VVM indicates whether the vaccine has been...
WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA JOINT STATEMENT
Appropriate Storage and Management
of Oxytocin – a Key Commodity
for Maternal Health
WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA have issued a joint statement regarding the management of oxytocin, a medicine essential to the prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage as wel...
Dear viewers,
As announced earlier in August 2018, the author with the help of his team could realize his dream and celebrated “EuVac Baby Award Ceremony” today in KVG Medical College Hospital.
Dr KV Chidananda, Medical Director, iterated that parents have very crucial role in getting their childr...
Dear esteemed viewers
On the eve of Karnataka State Raising day (Kannada Rajyotsva), KVG team wishes to share the attached for caring the children of Karnataka and beyond. India is committed:
- baby Rukhsar was the last case of Poliomyelitis due to wild polio virus in Jan 2011,
- it got the certi...
Dear viewers,
Greetings from KVG team.
India launched Mission Indradhanush on 25th Dec 2014 to achieve >90% full immunization coverage (FIC) by 2020; it was intensified in October 2017 and the timeline was advanced to 2018 by the Honorable Prime Minister of India -- a silver line in the RI program...
Cher.e.s professionel.le.s de la vaccination et de la chaîne d’approvisionnement des vaccins,
L’initiative Gestion Efficace des Vaccins (GEV) a évolué de manière significative ces dernières années, et désormais ne se résume plus qu’à une simple évaluation à un moment t. La GEV a été transformée af...
Dear viewers,
On behalf of the KVG team, I wish to share the PPT on Eu-Vac Baby presented during the regular Academic Society Meeting today.
Laasya, D/O Chaitra C.G is the indexed Eu-Vaccinee who timely graduated as a fully immunized child (FIC) before first birthday and “complete” immunization in...
Dear colleagues,
Warm greetings from me and KVG team.
On 15th Aug 012, I mailed “Dewalbari – one pager” highlighting the unprecedented lesson learnt by me – taught by Bina, Pumpum, 4 AWS and 4 ASHAs of Dewalbari HSC of Jamtara. On 4th Saturday – 28th July 2014, ANM Mrs Bina screamed and jubilantly...
Dear all
India is politically committed to advancing the target of achieving >90% full Immunization coverage before 1 year from 2020 to 2018 through Intensified Mission Indhradhanush (IMI) launched in October 2017. We are now left with only 5 months in 2018. Probably we may be able to achieve that ...
New MySupplyChain
Those of you seeking to improve their professional career prospects, bookmark www.MySupplyChain.org; a new one-stop platform for development and empowerment of individual health supply chain workers. The site combines a Job Board with daily updates, as well as a comprehensive Resource Directory for ...
The second edition of the user manual for the revised WHO classification for the causality assessment of an adverse event following immunization (AEFI) was developed by the WHO with support from the Global Advisory Committee for Vaccine Safety (GACVS). This was based on the findings of a scientific ...
Dear Colleagues and partners
I hope you’re well and that 2018 has got off to a great start!
I hope you don’t mind me reaching out to request your help is spreading the word about INFUSE within your networks.
Innovation for Uptake, Scale and Equity in Immunisation, or INFUSE for short, is an ac...
Un cours Scholar pour les praticiens de la santé impliqués dans la planification de la vaccination, pour développer leur capacité
L’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) invite les praticiens qui contribuent directementà la planification de la vaccination au niveau national ou infra-national à s...
Dear TechNet community,
The 15th TechNet Conference will take place next week in Cascais, Portugal. All plenary sessions will be streamed on the TechNet-21 channel on YouTube, so if you are not attending in person you can still participate remotely.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TechNet21
Please u...
The October edition of the People that Deliver Newsflash is now available: http://conta.cc/2xxizFp
In this issue:
PtD elects a new Chairperson
Building a strong supply chain workforce in Ghana
The transition of the public health supply chain for medical commodities in Kenya
N...
You are cordially invited to our upcoming conference - Africa Conference on Healthcare Delivery (AHD Conference 2017), which is taking place between 12 and 14 June, 2017 in Abuja, Nigeria. See attached conference flyer and "call for abstracts" or visit the conference website (conference.ahdonline.or...
Dear TechNet-21 members,
Good news: the TechNet-21 website is now back online. All areas of the website should work, apart from the TechNet Resource Library which will be restored tomorrow. You may notice the occasional styling glitch, but we are working hard to iron out all of these as quickly as ...
At countries’ request, WHO has worked with UNICEF and PAHO to enhance transparency of vaccine prices, through the creation and maintenance of the Vaccine Product, Price and Procurement Initiative (V3P).
Thanks to the hard work of colleagues and partners, last year 51 countries have shared their vac...
Happy New Year to all TechNet members! I trust that the holiday season was relaxing and peaceful for all. I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued participation in the forum and other areas of the website. It’s been wonderful to hear so many different voices from around th...
Dear colleagues,
The Interagency Supply Chain Group (ISG) comprising 15 global agencies, are actively involved in supporting supply chain efforts across all disease areas.The purpose of this group is to provide better coordinated and more effective support to country efforts in ensuring sustainable...
Every year, the Decade of Vaccines secretariat[1] prepares a report which summarizes the progress against each of the GVAP goals (coverage, disease elimination, vaccine prices, NITAGs…). This report is the best source of information available to have a clear picture of the situation in all the areas...
Attached is anewflyer that lists all the online courses available as part of the Immunization eLearning Initiative. This digital learning program wasdeveloped by WHO and UNICEF expertstoprovide knowledge vital toEPI advancement.Everyone working in support of Immunization can participate in the onlin...
Dear all
We are presenting this post for inputs from the viewers which will help us in critically reviewing the programme as an exercise for the post graduates. This may indierectly help in reaching the goals and objectives of GVAP by 2020.
Context:
Government of India (GOI) has launched Mission ...
A case study has been published to share information about some of the change management and motivational strategies deployed by UNICEF and WHO to support high levels of participation in the Immunization eLearning Initiative. The case study can be helpful for learning leaders looking for ways to inc...
Abstract
Presently the dose of rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) which is an integral part of rabies post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is calculated based on body weight though the recommendation is to infiltrate the wound(s). This practice demands large quantities of RIG which may be un-affordable to many...
Dear all
I take this opportunity to share the following with the viewers as many of them are in the authorized post who can daringly and decisively "move faster" than the VPDs can kill our children / resurgence of wild virus & or cVDPVs in polio free Country / States as globally witnessed in the pa...
Dear viewers
“Measles & Rubella (MR) case based surveillance” is being launched to achieve the goals of measles elimination and rubella control. For any vaccine preventable disease, vaccinating routinely with potent vaccine, uniformly throughout the country following a standard schedule is mandator...
Dear all
Breast milk is the best milk. The colostrum is considered as the nature’s first “Oral Vaccine”.
Exclusively breast fed infants are better protected against respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases and hence 7 of the 17 Sustainable Developmental Goals by 2030 [1/2/3/4/8/10 & 13th] pro...
There's a new page on the TechNet website that answers twenty or so of the most commonly asked questions about the website and conference. You can find it here:
http://www.technet-21.org/en/home/about/faqs
Questions asked include:Is the TechNet website available in other languages?When / where is ...
From 17 April to 1 May, the globally synchronised switch from trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) is taking place in 155 countries and territories. This will be followed by an intensive monitoring and validation phase through to 18 May.
To follow progress as co...
UNICEF has launched an Innovation Fund (first-ever in the UN) to channel the energies of private sector, civil society and academia in support of strategic innovations for children.
The initiative will fund early-stage technical start-ups to support innovations in infrastructure (access to services...
Abstract
Send to:
Hum Vaccin Immunother.2015 Aug 28:0. [Epub ahead of print]
Local infiltration of rabies immunoglobulins without systemic intramuscular administration: An alternative cost effective approach for passive immunization against rabies.
Bharti OK1,Madhusudana SN,G...
Twenty-three speakers including 21 representatives from Member States (i.e. 15[2]), and two civil society organizations[4] and took note of the recommendations.
While Member States acknowledged successes in a few areas, most notably the absence of wild polio virus cases in the African region and mo...
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on immunization (SAGE) convened by WHO on 20 October 2015 has confirmed that the globally coordinated withdrawal of the type 2 component in the oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) will take place in April 2016.
SAGE’s landmark decision follows the endorsement by th...
People who delay or refuse vaccines for themselves or their children are presenting a growing challenge for countries seeking to close the immunization gap. Globally, 1 in 5 children still do not receive routine life-saving immunizations, and an estimated 1.5 million children still die each year of ...
Dear TechNet members:
As a public-private partnership, Gavi believes the private sector can play a key role in advancing its mission to save children's lives and protecting people’s health by increasing access to immunisation.
To helpus identify where and how the private sector can best support it...
Dear All,
Please find attached the article recently published on cost projections of DoV.
The costing analysis examines the vaccine costs, supply chain costs, and service delivery costs of immunization programs for routine immunization and for supplemental immunization activities (SIAs) for vaccin...
If the answer is “Yes”, you are in luck. Most of the plenary sessions were streamed live and are now available to watch online. For a full list of video recordings, as well as accompanying slides and posters, please refer to this page:
www.technet-21.org/home/about/tc2015
The resources on this pag...
Please find below links to recordings of plenary presentations that took place on Wednesday, May 13 2015 at theTechNet Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. These are available for viewing on the USTREAM website. Many thanks and I hope that you find these presentations interesting and useful. Please acce...
Please find below links to recordings of plenary presentations that took place on Tuesday, May 12 2015 at theTechNet Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. These are available for viewing on the USTREAM website. Many thanks and I hope that you find these presentations interesting and useful. Please accept...
Dear Colleagues,
Kindly note that the position for Executive Manager (People that Deliver), P-4, TA position # 91378 in Supply Chain Strengthening Centre (I-VN-2015-001050 / E-VN-2015-001052)has been announced through UNICEF's on-line e-Recruitment system.
Applications should be submitted before c...
Dear Tech Net Colleagues,
The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework promotes the development of systems and information specific to responding to public health influenza emergencies. Based on lessons learned from the WHO H1N1 response and other gap analyses, a series of objectives have be...
Dear TechNet members,
I am pleased to share the newly published "Supply Chain Competency Framework for Managers & Leaders".
The Competency Framework is an activity of the People that Deliver Initiative through the Gavi People & Practice Priority Working Group, with the assistance of UPS.
It is en...
This presentation provides an analysis of the results from more than 70 EVM assessments conducted between 2009 and 2013. This is the first publicly available analysis of both the EVM Criterion scores and the raw questionnaire responses. The analysis will be updated annually; the next update is expec...
Well-planned, adequately funded communications affect the success of immunization services and are particularly needed to achieve vaccination coverage goals and maintain trust in vaccines.
A communications plan and its activities – such as media briefings, stakeholder engagement, and social mobi...
In its January 2015 meeting, the WHO Executive Board called on all Member States to accelerate preparation for a globally coordinated switch from trivalent to bivalent OPV in April 2016. The Board’s request follows the WHO SAGE announcement in October 2014 that preparations are on track for this imp...
Twenty-seven speakers including 22 representatives from Member States (i.e. 16 Executive Board Members and 6 non-Executive Board Members), four civil society organizations and one pharmaceutical manufacturer association took the floor during the discussion on the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP)....
We are pleased to inform you that several publications featuring the Decade of Vaccines Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) Assessment report 2014 are now available for dissemination.
- WHO Executive Board 136 report on GVAP: http://apps.who.int/gb/e/e_eb136.html
The document (EB 136/25) will be ...
This summary has been extracted from the IVAC website. For best viewing, please click here.
For the first time in its history, the International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Disease (ISPPD), was held in Asia in March 2014. Nearly 1,000 scientists and public health experts from aroun...
Dear CSO colleagues and friends
Attached please find a CSO sign-on letter drafted by the Gavi CSO Steering Committee and German CSO colleagues working on immunisation ahead of the Gavi Replenishment conference that will be hosted by the German government in Berlin on 27 January, 2015.
The l...
On behalf of the WHO Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC), I'm pleased to let you know about this advocacy document, now available on the WHO website, that summarises IPAC's concerns regarding lack of investment in Immunization Supply Chain and Logistics (ISCL). This work was approved b...
The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) sets out an array of targets for a world in which all individuals and communities enjoy lives free from vaccine-preventable diseases. As requested by Member States at the World Health Assembly in 2012, an annual review of the progress with the implementation of ...
The meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization took place in Geneva from the 21-23 October 2014. The full SAGE meeting summary is available online at:
http://www.who.int/immunization/sage/meetings/2014/october/summary_meeting_oct2014
For more information on SAGE,...
We are pleased to announce that Gavi will be hosting our next moderated discussion starting Thursday, October 9th. During this conversation Daniel Thornton, the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Gavi, will be sharing the new global immunisation supply chain strategy which Gavi has developed in co...
As many of you know, the supply chain strategy developed by WHO, UNICEF, Gates Foundation and GAVI was approved by the GAVI Board in June of this year, and we are beginning to work on implementation planning and communication. At this point, I know the community has more questions than we yet have a...
The Measles & Rubella Initiative is a global partnership committed to ensuring no child dies from measles or is born with congenital rubella syndrome. This updated fact sheet provides at a glance information about the importance of eliminating measles and rubella globally. The illustrations by artis...
Cross-posted from GAVI CSO forum with thanks!
Dear Colleagues:
I would like to draw your attention to an exciting opportunity to seek funding for research projects on life-saving interventions for children under five. Please email [email protected] for additional information and feel f...
From People that Deliver
Recognizing the importance of supply chains, the GAVI Alliance partners, GAVI Secretariat, WHO, UNICEF, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are currently designing a supply chain strategy to increase investment in supply chains, coordinate global activities on the iss...
Member States Delegates discuss progress towards global immunization goals at the World Health Assembly, May 2014
Fifty-four speakers including 50 representatives from Member States[1], one Observer[2], Civil Society Organizations[3] and the GAVI Alliance took the floor during the discussion on t...
When the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) was established 40 years ago, only around 5% of the world’s children were protected from six diseases — polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, pertussis, measles and tetanus — targeted by four vaccines.
Today, that figure is 83%, with some developing ...
According to WHO’s Health for the world’s adolescents report released today, adolescent deaths and disability from measles have fallen markedly—by 90% in the African Region between 2000 and 2012, thanks to childhood vaccination with measles vaccine. However, common infectious diseases that have been...
In December 2012, the GAVI Board recognized the need for the Alliance to strengthen its coordination and support for immunization supply chain performance at global and country levels. To this end, the Alliance assembled a task force to develop an immunization supply chain strategy. After investiga...
This is the third post on data for management (D4M) in the context of the GAVI Alliance 2020 supply chain strategy. D4M refers to the collection, analysis and use of data to measure and improve immunization (supply chain) performance. At this point, we would like to request your help and collaborat...
Cross-posted from: http://www.vaccinestoday.eu/vaccines/video-competition-for-students/
Drumroll please! Vaccines Today is pleased to launch the 3rd edition of our Communication Challenge.
This video competition offers students in Europe to win €1,000 and a trip to Brussels. Runners up prizes ...
Sustainably Graduating, so they don’t come home to live with us
Robert Steinglass,
Immunization Team Leader, MCHIP
Immunization Senior Advisor, JSI
18 February 2014
(appeared as a blog with live links on Health Planning and Policy Debated, 18 February 2014 and accessible at:
http://blogs.ls...
Dear TechNet members,
This week, TechNet launches its first moderated discussion. The topic for debate over the following month is the ‘Data for Management’ priority working group of GAVI’s immunization supply chain strategy. Please do share your valuable thoughts and experiences with us on this ...
The GAVI Alliance is currently developing its strategy for the period 2016-2020, which will be presented to the GAVI Board for adoption in June 2014. The approach to develop the new strategy is highly inclusive and builds on the input of all partners and stakeholders in the Alliance. Based on consul...
GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children have launched a fund totalling $1,000,000 to reward organisations practicing innovative approaches for reducing under-5 child mortality. The organisation judged to combat child mortality in the most innovative and effective way will be eligible for an award of u...
Records for Life Contest
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is launching an international contest to redesign the child health record. Winners of the contest - as determined by judges Melinda Gates, Anthony Lake, Walt Orenstein, Margaret Chan, and Robert Fabricant - will receive up to US $50,00...
by Magdalena Robert and Laurie Werner, Decade of Vaccines Collaboration
In March, the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration produced the final, illustrated version of the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), with a foreword by the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration Leadership Council and important annexes...
by Daniel Thornton and Stefano Malvolti, GAVI Alliance
The GAVI Alliance will spend $7 billion on lifesaving vaccines from 2011 to 2015, supporting countries to immunize an additional quarter of a billion children. Until now, although members of the Alliance have worked on particular parts of the...
by Heidi Lasher, consultant, and Kathleen Tiffay, PATH
Much of the knowledge generated by project Optimize and its partners is being shared in reports and presentations published on the PATH and Word Health Organization (WHO) websites. However, it is not always easy to reach national-level audien...
Sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Partnership with Liquidnet for Good
Rewarding Innovation: Each Winner to Receive $100,000 Grant
The social sector is full of passion, intuition, deep experience, and unwavering commitment. Increasingly, social change agents from funders t...
by Modibo Dicko, WHO, and Motomoke Eomba, John Snow, Inc.
In November 2012, more than one hundred logisticians and supply-chain experts from 29 countries met in Kigali, Rwanda, for the fifth annual Global Health Supply Chain Summit. The three-day summit provided a forum for participants to share ...
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 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in round nine of its Grand Challenges
Explorations initiative. Below, Raja R...
by Kirsten Mathieson and Lara Brearley, Save the Children
One in five children—those from the poorest families, the most remote areas, and marginalized groups—are still denied their right to immunisation and other essential health services. Save the Children’s new report, Immunisation for All: No...
Cross-posted from the GAVI Alliance website with thanks!
Professor Hans Rosling is a doctor and a professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. At the GAVI Partners' Forum, he showed how GAVI’s mission to increase access to immunisation fits into a new way of looking at...
Many thanks to Tasnim Partapuri for directing our attention here!
UNICEF developed the Meena Communication Initiative (MCI) as a mass communication project aimed at changing perceptions and behaviour that hamper the survival, protection and development of girls in South Asia.
Following eight y...
Announcing the 8th Annual 2012 Photoshare Photo Contest - a popular international event mobilizing amateur and professional photographers to share their photos for charitable and educational use.
The contest has a top prize of $1,000 USD. Deadline for Entries: December 17, 2012. Entries are accep...
Cross-posted from the GAVI CSO forum.
Dear GAVI CSO Constituency members and friends,
Civil society (defined by GAVI as non-government and community-based organisations, faith-based groups, academic institutions, professional bodies and women's initiatives) is a critical GAVI partner in immuni...
by Raja Rao, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Earlier this year, 17 different proposals on how to optimize immunization systems were each awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. Raja Rao gives an overview of each proposa...
We must correct imbalanced global investments within the world of immunization
by Robert Steinglass, Immunization Senior Advisor, JSI and Immunization Team Leader, MCHIP (13 June 2012)
In recent years, the world of immunization has been dominated by a focus on life-saving vaccines and the prev...
The first of the two Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) grants totaling US$100,000 each recently awarded to PATH by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will help to advance the development of a novel protective liner for vaccine carriers. Currently in the early stages of product development, th...
The Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The program funds individuals worldwide to explore ideas that can break the mold in how persistent global health and development challenges are solved.
Jonatha...
The Logistimo team is humbled to receive support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "Grand Challenge Explorations" program to advance new approaches to optimize immunization systems. It is a tremendous opportunity to apply mobile and cloud technology to improve vaccine supply chains ...
by Magda Robert and Laurie Werner, Decade of Vaccines Collaboration
Over the past year, the Decade of Vaccines (DoV) Collaboration has been developing a Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP). The plan is now being finalized and will be presented for endorsement at the 65th World Health Assembly, to ...
The Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean is preparing to celebrate the third Regional Vaccination Week during the week of 24 – 30 April 2012, coinciding with the first World Immunization Week. Vaccination Week is an annual initiative celebrating and promoting immunization through innovative...
I agree with Mansoor, on many occasions vaccination alone cannot protect children well. Using India's experiences, improving water sanitation and its key messages in polio eradication, we all should use the opportunity of new vaccine introduction to communicate with the community about all preventiv...
Cross posted from http://www.childsurvival.net with many thanks to Robert Davis
NOTE FROM ROBERT DAVIS INVITING CONTRIBUTIONS
The Expanded Programme on Immunization, now the world's largest public health programme, is approaching its fortieth birthday. It got started in a small suite of offi...
Here is a summary of interventions made by country delegations during the GVAP discussion at the WHO Executive Board on 21 January.
- A number of delegations mentioned the importance of including measles elimination as part of the GVAP (there was some discussion as to whether it should be eradi...
by Alan Hinman, Task Force for Global Health; Majeed Siddiqi, HealthNet TPO Afghanistan; and Amy Dietterich, IFRC
While Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have long played critical roles in supporting immunization services at national and global levels, their role in the GAVI Alliance expanded j...
Dear Moderator, I wish to underline that GAVI's push for more funds for vaccines has been questioned by the MSF. I think GAVI needs to respond to MSF and clarify their stand so that everyone knows why is something being done and at what cost. Also we wish to know what is GAVI doing for transfer of t...
Many thanks to Diana Chang Blanc for sharing these documents with the forum!
According to the press release: "Donors committed US$ 4.3 billion at the first pledging conference held by the GAVI Alliance. This exceeds an initial target of $3.7 billion, enabling GAVI to reach more children fast...
Background:
In 2010 the 63rd World Health Assembly called for a comprehensive response to viral hepatitis. As mandated by the WHA, from 2011 onwards, World Hepatitis Day is promoted on 28 July in order to provide an opportunity for awareness raising and greater understanding of viral hepatitis as...
James Cheyne shares with us a film on immunnization. It comes with a cautionary note that the video contains language that some may find offensive. Another weapon in our armoury against immunization naysayers!
Please use the following link to see the film, which has been uploaded on YouTube:
http:...
New committee to advise the World Health Organization on immunization practices
by Shelley Deeks, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion and IPAC Chairperson, and Rudi Eggers, WHO/IVB
In late June, Dr. Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Director of Immunization, Vaccinations and Biologicals (IVB) a...
James Cheyne shares with us the jointly produced (IFRC/GAVI Alliance) advocacy report on immunization, entitled "Unfinished business". The report was pre-released at the UN Palais in Geneva earlier this month and will be more formally launched at the forthcoming MDG Summit.
The press re...
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