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In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to Member States on health policy matters, WHO publishes vaccine position papers providing global vaccine and immunization recommendations for...
The WHO website provides a list of certain diseases for which vaccines are available, and a list of some pathogens for which vaccines and/or monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are in development. For each...
This document is specifically about impact assessment through serosurveys. This may be a standalone method or as part of a broader evaluation of hepatitis B control. Surveys of this kind have been...
BACKGROUND Hepatitis B vaccine birth dose (HepB-BD) was introduced in Lao People\'s Democratic Republic to prevent perinatal hepatitis B virus transmission in 2008; high coverage is challenging since...
This study used a system evaluation method to summarize China\'s experience on improving the coverage of hepatitis B vaccine, especially the strategies employed to improve the uptake of timely birth...
Hepatitis E virus (HEV), norovirus (NoV), and astrovirus (AstV) are enterically-transmitted viral pathogens causing epidemic or endemic hepatitis (HEV) and gastroenteritis (NoV and AstV) respectively...
The hepatitis E vaccine provided sustained protection against the virus for up to 4.5 years, found a follow-up study to a 2007 randomized trial that evaluated the short-term efficacy of the vaccine...