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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...
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),...
- Catégorie: Data
- Pays: 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...
- Catégorie: Vaccines & delivery devices
- Pays: Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile
BACKGROUND: Recent outbreaks of measles in the Americas have received news and popular attention, noting the importance of vaccination to population health. To estimate the potential increase in immunization coverage and reduction in days at risk...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador
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...
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
Rotavirus disease is the leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality related to diarrhea in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), where an estimated 8,000 deaths related to rotavirus diarrhea occur annually among children aged 1). After two...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: Venezuela Bolivarian Republic Of, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil
The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) sets ambitious but achievable goals, to save thousands of lives through vaccination in this Decade of Vaccines to 2020. The Decade of Vaccines is not on course to achieve its true potential. Good progress has...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: Yemen, Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Nigeria, Niger, Mexico, Mauritania, Kenya, India, Haiti, Guinea, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, Cambodia, Angola, Afghanistan
- Organisation: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE), WHO
Triangulation of results from two methods captured a richer story behind vaccine adoption decisions for hepatitis A. The discrepancy between policymakers’ beliefs and existing data suggest a decline in priority of hepatitis A or weak investment in...
- Catégorie: Service delivery
- Pays: Russian Federation, Korea South, Mexico, India, Chile
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