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This repository can be used to identify tools, databases, and guidance documents that can be used to collect high-quality evidence to support vaccine decision-making.
Experience and lessons learned from Ghana's immunization program.
Eligible countries can access detailed guidelines to manage the support they receive from Gavi. These include Gavi vaccine funding guidelines, application process guidelines, programme funding...
This is a simple, Excel-based tool for assessing and comparing costs of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programs annually and for a period of 10 years with HPV vaccine products available in...
Treating hazardous-infectious medical waste can be carried out on-site or off-site of health-care establishments. Nevertheless, the selection between on-site and off-site locations for treating...
Putting safety first:ensuring safe vaccination practices during the 2006 rubella campaign in Bolivia
Over 3 weeks in 2006, 3826083 persons were vaccinated against rubella during a national immunization campaign in Bolivia. This campaign was the largest mass immunization campaign ever conducted in...
The effectiveness of childhood immunization programs depends on the vaccination coverage actually achieved. Routinely collected coverage data are not always available, and comparability between...
This document summarizes current technical and programmatic information on WHO prequalified PCV
products to facilitate informed country choices for PCV introduction or product switch for...
This is the presentation of the webinar session titled: 'Gender responsive approaches 3 – Engaging with men and promoting a family approach to transform gender norms'. This session is the 5th...
The costs and financing of the national immunization programs have been evaluated since 1980s, particularly as part of Universal Childhood Immunization Initiative. However, available information is...
India accounts for 22% of the 453,000 global rotavirus deaths among children <5 years annually. The Indian Rotavirus Strain Surveillance Network provides clinicians and public health partners with...
This study seeks to compare volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions and the microbial disinfectant safety in non-incineration waste disposal devices.
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) catch-up vaccination at the time of PCV introduction in children aged 12 to 59 months of age has been recommended by WHO as reflected in the 2019 WHO position...
This is the presentation of the webinar session titled: 'Gender responsive approaches 2 – Make community engagement and social mobilization gender responsive and transformative'. This session is...
The world is becoming urban. The UN predicts that the world\'s urban population will almost double from 3·3 billion in 2007 to 6·3 billion in 2050. Most of this increase will be in developing...
The available data on routine immunization in Nigeria show a disparity in coverage between Northern and Southern Nigeria, with the former performing worse. The effect of socio-cultural differences on...
The Gambia introduced seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) in August 2009 and switched to 13-valent PCV in April 2011. In April 2009, monovalent hepatitis B and combined...
The majority of industrialized and some developing countries have established technical advisory bodies to guide and formulate national immunization policies and strategies. These are referred to as...
Global vaccine stockpiles, in which vaccines are reserved for use when needed for emergencies or supply shortages, have effectively provided countries with the capacity for rapid response to...
Hallmarks in the remarkable evolution of vaccines and their application include the eradication of smallpox, the development and delivery of the early childhood vaccines and the emergence of...
A goal of the Global Vaccine Action Plan, led by the World Health Organization, is country ownership by 2020, defined here as the point when a country fully finances its routine immunization program...
In October 2010, a virulent South Asian strain of El Tor cholera began to spread in Haiti. Interventions have included treatment of cases and improved sanitation. Use of cholera vaccines would likely...
In 2004 an Institute of Medicine report warned of vaccine shortages, raising concerns about disease outbreaks. More than a decade later, we looked for progress in reducing vaccine shortages. We...
There is a wide range of methods and technologies aimed at improving human vaccine products and the way they are delivered. Some of these have the potential to increase vaccine effectiveness in...
The National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Balş” is participating during 2012-2014 in the European project “HProImmune - Promotion of immunization among health care...
Withdrawal of type 2 oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) in OPV-using countries required regulatory approval for use of inactivated poliovirus vaccine and bivalent OPV in routine immunization. Worldwide, a...
The synchronized introduction of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and the switch from trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) has constituted an effort without...
This is the third session of the webinar series on Why Gender Matters for Immunization.
This webinar series aims to explain the need for mainstreaming gender across the core principles and...
Guide for health managers and service providers on HPV vaccination in the context of a (3 doe schedule ) demonstration programme in Zambia
Vaccination coverage survey - Publication
abstract: Background Health care systems in many countries are
changing for a variety of reasons. Monitoring of community-based
services, especially...
The authors prove that an epidemic will become extinct if and only if the spectral radius of the corresponding parameterized adjacent matrix (PAM) is smaller than 1. Based on this result, they...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication abstract:
BACKGROUND:
Monitoring and assessment of coverage rates in national health programmes is becoming increasingly important. We aimed to assess the...
Vaccination coverage surveys - This document contains a spreadsheet template for a MICS budget
Vaccination coverage survey - Publication abstract: Immunization programs frequently rely on household vaccination cards, parental recall, or both to calculate vaccination coverage. This information...
Vaccination coverage survey - Publication abstract:
BACKGROUND:
The Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI) random walk method has been widely used by the World Health Organization and others for...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication abstract:
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Estimation of vaccination coverage at the local level is essential to identify communities that may require additional support....
To the editor: The paper by Francis and associates (1) in this issue shows the safety and efficacy of inactivated hepatitis B vaccine in a large multi-center trial. A disturbing finding is the lower...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication
abstract: MenAfriVac is a new conjugate vaccine against Neisseria
meningitidis serogroup A developed for the African \"meningitis
belt\". In Niger, the...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication abstract: Estimates of immunization coverage in developing countries are typically made on a \"card plus history\" basis, combining information obtained...
Vaccination coverage survey: Publication abstract: A Monte Carlo simulation study was designed to evaluate the sample survey technique currently used by the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)...
The global COVID-19 vaccination response provides many lessons on how to better prepare for and respond to future pandemics that require rapid, large-scale vaccination. This document includes a...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication abstract:
Background.
Lack of methodological rigor can cause survey error, leading to biased results and suboptimal public health response. This study...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication abstract: Public health programs rely on household-survey estimates of vaccination coverage as a basis of programmatic and policy decisions; however, the...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication abstract:
BACKGROUND:
This study characterizes the healthcare visits at which children receive vaccinations, including the number of these visits and the...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication
abstract: BACKGROUND: Measuring vaccination coverage permits
evaluation and appropriate targeting of vaccination services. The
cluster survey methodology...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication abstract:
Objective
To assess the methods used in the evaluation of measles vaccination coverage, identify quality concerns and provide recommendations...