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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly affected utilization of preventative health care, including vaccines. We aimed to assess HPV vaccination rates during the pandemic,...
As the world continues to navigate the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the absence of effective treatments and curative pharmaceutical interventions, countries have resorted to...
Data on COVID-19-induced disruption to routine vaccinations in the South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions (SEAR/WPR) have been sparse. This study aimed to quantify the impact of COVID-19 on...
As the COVID-19 pandemic becomes increasingly protracted, WHO has developed a Guidance for Conducting a Country COVID-19 Intra-Action Review (IAR) and ten accompanying tools for countries to conduct...
The WHO Guidance for Conducting a Country COVID-19 Intra-Action Review (IAR) was developed to guide countries to conduct periodic review(s) of their national and subnational COVID-19 response, so...
The consolidated answers to the questions asked during and after Session #11 of the 'COVID-19 Vaccination: Building Global Capacity' webinar series for National and subnational focal points. The...
Health care workers in Kenya and Zambia are helping design vaccine preparedness and distribution plans.
PATH’s Living Labs Initiative accelerates the pace of health innovation by co-creating with users to rapidly design, test, and scale solutions to their long-standing challenges. We apply...
The Impact Report looks back at the challenges and progress of the ACT-Accelerator over the
last year. It highlights the accelerated actions taken by each of the ACT-Accelerator pillars
to ensure...
This document aims to provide interim guidance on the risks for fully vaccinated individuals to develop or transmit infection that will give rise to severe COVID-19 disease in the context of the...
Keynote address delivered at the 2021 GVIRF meeting.
The consolidated answers to the questions asked during and after Session #10 of the 'COVID-19 Vaccination: Building Global Capacity' webinar series for Health workers. The session was entitled '10:...
Reports assessing the impact of COVID-19-related physical distancing measures on delivery of childhood vaccination programmes in England.
This checklist is intended for supervisors who are supporting staff conducting COVID-19 vaccination.
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments. This website provides health departments and their staff with training resources...
The consolidated answers to the questions asked during and after Session #09 of the 'COVID-19 Vaccination: Building Global Capacity' webinar series for National and subnational focal points. The...
Pandemic measures to mitigate the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany led to cancellations of routine vaccination appointments for both adults and children. Survey data indicate that, with easing...
The impact on families of inequitable access, achieving COVID-19 vaccination, COVID-19 vaccine research: speed vs. equity, and the role of WHO in achieving vaccines equity.
The COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen (Ad26.COV2-S [recombinant]) is a non-replicating adenoviral vector vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The vector virus contained within the vaccine...
The consolidated answers to the questions asked during and after Session #08 of the 'COVID-19 Vaccination: Building Global Capacity' webinar series for Health workers. The session was entitled '08:...
New findings from a multi-country survey show that 50 per cent of parents whose child had a scheduled meningococcal disease (meningitis) vaccination appointment, had the appointment delayed or...
Background: COVID-19 pandemic was responsible for disrupting routine immunization activities all over the world. Aim of the study was to investigate the reduced adherence to the national children...
As many as 30 million children are at risk of disease and death because of the secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. World Vision’s Aftershocks report considers what would happen if the...
Immunization programmes in countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region have a strong foundation in primary health care, and their capacity to maintain service during the...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the urgent need for robust and systematic implementation of plans for the integration of assets and functions so far supported by GPEI into national health systems....
Findings
Immunization remains one of the most successful, safe, cost-effective and proven fundamental disease prevention measures in the history of public health. However, the COVID-19 pandemic...
Although the direct health impact of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on child health is low, there are indirect impacts across many aspects. We compare childhood vaccine uptake in three types...
Introduction: The global abrupt progression of the COVID-19 pandemic may disrupt critical life-saving services such as routine immunization (RI), thus increasing the susceptibility of countries...
What is already known about this topic?
Routine health care services have been disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is added by this report?
During the first week after the national...
In their modelling study, Kaja Abbas and colleagues (October, 2020)1 state that routine childhood immunisation is “at risk of suspension” and “should be sustained in Africa as much as...
Abstract
Introduction: Zero-dose prevalence refers to children who failed to receive any routine vaccination. Little is known about the "immunisation cascade" in low- and middle-income countries...
The mini COVID-19 Post-Introduction Evaluation (mini-cPIE), also called the COVID-19 Vaccination Intra-Action Review (IAR), is a set of tools available to countries to review the early phase(s) of...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges and threats to the health care system, particularly affecting the effective delivery of essential health services in resource-poor...
In a sad knock-on effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) abruptly halted all mass vaccination campaigns in March, worried they could inadvertently spread the...
Coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 is an emerging pandemic infection whose significant ability to spread in a naïve population is well established. The first response of states to the COVID-19 outbreak...
Polio is a deadly viral disease that has been paralyzing many children in Afghanistan. Despite fundamental efforts, primarily vaccination, to reduce the number of cases in Afghanistan, there are...
Introduction: the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the world to implement drastic prevention methods based on limiting population movements that have an impact on public health policies, such as...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread stay-at-home orders, fears of going to health facilities where COVID-19 patients are treated, economic hardship due to job loss or interruption, and a...
The COVID-19 pandemic has further entrenched existing gender disparities and barriers, particularly at the household and community level. Countries should therefore aim to ensure that their Maintain,...
Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness
Vaccine effectiveness and impact document provides interim best practice guidance on how to assess COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) using observational study designs. It discusses critical...
Understanding how people think, feel and act in relation to vaccination is vital to inform the development of strategies to generate acceptance and uptake for the vaccines. Generating and using data...
Community engagement should be at the centre of all COVID-19 vaccine introduction activities. This document contains tips and discussion topics to be considered in vaccine delivery and demand, as...
This operational tool provides an overview of key activities and considerations to achieve high acceptance and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines. Among other critical actions, the Demand Planning Tool...
Purpose: This document provides an overview of the scientific basis and key programmatic considerations to guide national decision-making for countries on optimizing the deployment...
In order to unify the labeling requirements for COVID-19 vaccines that will be supplied through the Access to COVID-19 Tools (Act) Accelerator, draft models for the vial labels and packaging have...
Vaccine development has been transformed, now what is needed in the post-COVID era?