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The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has reduced the global incidence of polio by 99% and the number of countries with endemic polio from 125 to 3 countries. The Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013–2018 (Endgame Plan) was...
- Catégorie: Global initiatives
- Pays: Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Egypt, Afghanistan
- Organisation: WHO
Despite the improvements made in global immunization coverage for children over the past decade,1,2 an estimated 21.8 million infants worldwide are still not being reached by routine immunization services.3 In 2013, most of the World Health...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: The Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia, Rwanda, Maldives, Jordan, Georgia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Costa Rica, Chad, Central African Republic, Belarus, Armenia, Albania, Afghanistan
- Organisation: WHO
Zika virus was originally identified in a sentinel rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest of Uganda in 1947. The virus is a member of the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus, and is transmitted to humans by Aedes species mosquitoes. The first report of...
- Catégorie: Global initiatives
- Pays: Uganda, Thailand, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Indonesia, India, Gabon, Egypt, Central African Republic
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...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: 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
This report highlights the achievements made in expanding access to vaccines in Africa and discusses some of the remaining challenges to achieving universal access to vaccines. The timing of this report coincides with the halfway point of the...
- Catégorie: Global initiatives
- Pays: Zimbabwe, Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania, Uganda, Tunisia, Togo, Swaziland, Sudan, South Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Senegal, Sao Tome And Principe, Rwanda, Nigeria, Niger, Namibia, Mozambique, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Malawi, Madagascar, Libya, Liberia, Lesotho, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Gambia, Gabon, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Djibouti, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Cote D Ivoire, Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Benin, Angola, Algeria
This report, prepared by the Secretariat for the Decade of Vaccines Global Vaccine Action Plan, serves as the basis for the independent review. As was the case in 2013 and 2014, this report reviews progress against each of the indicators in the...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: Zimbabwe, Zambia, Yemen, Uruguay, Uganda, Tunisia, Timor Leste, Tajikistan, Sudan, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Korea South, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Nigeria, Niger, Nicaragua, Myanmar, Mongolia, Mali, Libya, Liberia, Kazakhstan, Jamaica, Iraq, Iran Islamic Republic Of, Indonesia, India, Haiti, Guinea, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Cote D Ivoire, Colombia, Chile, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Cambodia, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Benin, Bangladesh, Algeria, Afghanistan
Immunization research productivity in Africa is highly skewed, with private health expenditure having a significant positive association. However, the current contribution of authors from Africa to global childhood immunization research output is...
- Catégorie: Programme management
- Pays: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Gambia, Egypt
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Member States Delegates discuss progress towards global immunization goals at the 67th WHA
[b]Member States Delegates discuss progress towards global immunization goals at the World Health Assembly, May 2014[/b] [b]Fifty-four speakers including 50 representatives from Member States[1], o
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SIVAC supports technical advisory groups on new vaccine introductions
by Kamel Senouci and Lara Gautier, AMP Many national immunization programs rely on the professional advice of national immunization technical advisory groups (NITAGs) to help them make critical dec
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Recollections from the first decades of EPI
[i]Cross posted from http://www.childsurvival.net with many thanks to Robert Davis[/i] NOTE FROM ROBERT DAVIS INVITING CONTRIBUTIONS [i]The Expanded Programme on Immunization, now the world's
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Issues not yet addressed …..
While immunization partners involved in supporting vaccine supply chain (WHO, UNICEF’s CCL and Project Optimize ...) are collaborating and building on each others’ experiences, there are several p
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CCL Taskforce evaluates the EVM Assessment Tool
by Osman Mansoor and Kate Bai, UNICEF; Andrew Garnett, Consultant; and Solo Kone, WHO In December 2011, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosted a workshop in New
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Polio Monthly Situation Report (June 2011)
Dear Colleagues, Please visit for regular updates on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Note that all data in this report refer to 28 June 2011. The French version will be available on 08 J
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Polio Monthly Situation Report (May 2011)
Dear colleagues, Please visit [url=http://www.polioeradication.org/]www.polioeradication.org[/url] for regular updates on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Note that all data in this report re
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Polio Monthly situation report (April 2011)
Dear Colleagues, Please visit www.polioeradication.org for regular updates on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Note that all data in this report refers to 04 May 2011. The French version wi
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World Hepatitis Day 2011—Brief notes for collaborators
[i]Background:[/i] 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 Ju
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