Rubella vaccines: WHO position paper

This document replaces the first rubella

vaccine position paper published in the

Weekly Epidemiological Record in May

2000.2 It incorporates the most recent developments

in the field of rubella vaccines,

in order to provide updated guidance on

the introduction and use of rubellacontaining

vaccines in national immunization

schedules.

Recommendations on the use of rubella

vaccines were discussed by SAGE at its

meeting in April 2011.