Japanese Encephalitis Vaccines: WHO position paper

In accordance with its mandate to provide

guidance to Member States on health policy matters, WHO issues a series of regularly updated position papers on vaccines

and combinations of vaccines against diseases that have an international public

health impact. These papers are concerned

primarily with the use of vaccines in

large-scale immunization programmes;

they summarize essential background information on diseases and vaccines, and

conclude with the current WHO position

on the use of vaccines worldwide.