With Spring comes April showers, May flowers, and the March 2023 edition of SnapShots, AIRA's quarterly newsletter that highlights the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS. This edition of SnapShots features articles on bidirectional data exchange between IIS and school districts, PHII's eLearnings, and Virginia's in-house pa...
GPEI Statement on cVDPV2 detections in Burundi and Democratic Republic of the CongoThrough ongoing surveillance, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has received notification of the detection of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) linked wit...
IN THIS EDITION THE MARCH 2023 ISSUE WILL BE OUT SOON. 30th Pan American Sanitary Conference: Keeping the Region of the Americas Polio-Free What I have learned … Raúl Montesano CastellanosTen news items on vaccination in the Americas published by PAHO | Road map to defeat meningitis by 2030Building Better Immunity: A Path to He...
News from PATH on vaccine uptake and accessMarch 2023|SubscribeIn this issue WHO approves Serum Institute pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for 2+1 schedule Phased expansion of malaria vaccine begins in more areas in Africa PATH and partners work to ...
VACCINE ACCESS DIGEST | MARCH 2023NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTSBreaking the Barriers: How Gender Equity Advances Immunization Gender roles and norms can profoundly impact immunization uptake and health outcomes for women, children, families, and communities. To increase immunization coverage and reach zero-dose chil...
MARCH 29, 2023 HOT TOPICSAttending the AIRA National Meeting? Time to sign up for your AART clinic!AIRA is excited to offer personalized sessions for IIS teams to meet with AIRA technical staff to review AART (Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool) testing results and discuss practical recommendations for improvements. Sess...
What you may have missed What you may have missed Resources News Events WHO 5th Global Forum on Human Resources for Health Register for PtD’s virtual parallel sessionWhen: Monday 3 April, 10:45 – 12:15 CEST How to register: Register herePeople that Deliver is playing a leading role in the session Health supply chain cadres: The m...
This weekly report provides key highlights and operational recommendations based on social listening data from March 16-23 in Africa. https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2023-03/AIRA%20Infodemic%20Trends%20Report%20-%2016-23%20March%202023.pdf
MARCH 22, 2023 HOT TOPICSNational IG Release 1.6: Call for experts, influencers, and advisors CDC, in collaboration with AIRA and NIST, is launching an Implementation Guide Expert Group in late spring 2023 to facilitate and contribute to the development of the national Release 1.6 of the Implementation Guide (IG) for Immunization Mes...
Volume 17, Issue 2 - February 2023The Measles and Rubella Bulletin is a monthly publication reporting progress towards achieving measles and rubella elimination in the Western Pacific Region. Inside each issue, we present the latest reported data by country on measles and rubella incidence, surveillance performance, and ...
When Power Failure Meets Life-Saving Equipment Just how important is consistent electricity to healthcare? As medical equipment floods low- and middle-income countries, there is an urgent need to ensure those investments generate the intended health impacts. However, very little data exists to appropriately address a country’s context and barriers ...
View this email in your browserMOMENTUM Insidertogether withZeroing in on Zero-Dose MARCH 2023Thanks for reading this special edition of the MOMENTUM Insider and Immunization in Focus newsletters! This message is intended for subscribers to both newsletters. You can subscribe to all of our newsletters here.Introduction The term...
Eastern Mediterranean health leaders call for redoubled efforts for a defining year for polioOn Tuesday 28 February 2023, ministers and high-level delegates from across the Eastern Mediterranean Region participated in the seventh meeting of the Regional Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks.Read more in...
This weekly report provides key highlights and operational recommendations based on social listening data from March 10-16 in Africa. https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2023-03/AIRA%20Infodemic%20Trends%20Report%20-%2010-16%20March%202023.pdf
MARCH 15, 2023 HOT TOPICSAIRA 2023 National Meeting Update Lucky me, lucky you, lucky together!The only thing better than a pot of gold is gathering annually for the AIRA 2023 National Meeting, where we can learn and collaborate to help build healthy communities through the development of IIS. You won’t want to m...
Dear Donors and Partners,I write with unfortunate news. As you may already be aware, communities in Southern Malawi and Central Mozambique, where VillageReach works, are in turmoil right now. Cyclone Freddy - a record-breaking cyclone - made its way through both countries over the last 48 hours. VillageReach is happy to report that a...
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The “Strengthening implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health” guide was jointly developed by WHO, UNICEF and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for country programme managers. The guide aims to provide activities and decision-making tools that strengthen the processes around planning, designing, impl...
The United Nations Foundation is pleased to share the newly released report, “Leveraging CSO Contributions to Advance Polio Transition and Integration Efforts in the African Region”, co-created with the Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Associations (CCRDA) in Ethiopia; Impact Health Organization (IHO) in South Sudan; Vaccine Network f...
Vaccination coverage in children under 7 years, Guatemala City, November 2022. In 2020, reported vaccination coverage in Guatemala City was 50% for OPV3 and 61% for MMR1, classifying the city as high-risk for polio re-emergence. To report vaccination coverage, the Ministry of Public Health (MSPAS) uses a nominal electronic registry that does not in...