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The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has announced the first three winners of the VIRA X NACCHO competition. These health departments will receive a customized version of the Vaccine Information Resource Assistant (VIRA) chatbot, which delivers credible and up-to-date answers to COVID-19 vaccine questions. The first local public health department partners in this project are the Mecklenburg County Health Department (Charlotte, NC), the Immunization Coalition of Los Angeles County (CA), and the Boston Public Health Commission (Boston, MA). The organizations serve approximately 11 million people. Read the full press release here. |
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IVAC Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery and Health Systems Online Survey (Asia Pacific Region)
 The International Vaccine Access Center is conducting an online survey as part of a project for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) about COVID-19, vaccination, and delivery experiences in the Asia Pacific Region.
The survey takes about 10 minutes and is tailored according to your area of expertise in the COVID-19 vaccination response. The results will help IVAC in advising the ADB on opportunities for future investment in the post COVID-19 pandemic period within the Asia Pacific Region.
You can take the survey at the link here. The survey will remain open until the end of February 2023, and your feedback is anonymous. |
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Positive Running for Positive Change
By Babu Seenappa, Santhosh Padmanabhan, Anita Shet
In a moving piece published on World AIDS Day, advocates tell the story of how a running event is making a difference in Bengaluru located in southern India. The race, inspired by Rishi, has brought children, adults, and their community together to spread awareness about HIV. This effort has culminated in programs like the Positive Running Program, which empowers children and youth born with HIV by using athletics as a catalyst to harness their natural abilities to pursue an active, healthy and holistic lifestyle. Read the full story here. |
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VoICE Key Concept
Vaccination can help improve the health equity of those who are HIV positive.
Research shows that introducing vaccines helps protect children who are HIV positive from preventable infectious diseases.
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[Recording] World Pneumonia Day Webinar
For this year’s World Pneumonia Day, IVAC gathered a diverse panel of experts to discuss the implications of observed declines in PCV coverage and to explore promising approaches or strategies to expand PCV delivery from the lenses of epidemiology, health economics, and implementation science. We hope you find valuable insights from this interdisciplinary panel and learn about the path forward to restore, maintain, and expand PCV coverage. |
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The games people play can enhance learning. ‘Khel’ translates into ‘game’ or ‘play’ in Hindi. KHEL, Knowledge on Health, Education and Learning through community games, is a short documentary film made by the Johns Hopkins Maternal and Child Health Center India (MCHI) and the Child In Need Institute (CINI). With an objective of promoting vaccine literacy, this short documentary film explores community games as a platform to debunk various myths and misconceptions around childhood immunization. Learning through play can be one of the most effective forms of behavior change.
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Added value of the measles-rubella supplementary immunization activity in reaching unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children, a cross-sectional study in five Indian districts, 2018–20
Authors include Christine Prosperi, Alvira Hasan, Shaun Truelove, Amy Winter, and William Moss
In this paper, published in Vaccine, the authors demonstrated that measles-rubella supplementary immunization activities (SIA) provided considerable added value in terms of measles vaccination coverage, although there was variability across districts due to differences in routine and SIA coverage, and which children were reached by the SIA. |
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