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Immunization coverage: Are we losing ground?

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF (2020) C_UNICEF

Immunization is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions to date, saving an estimated 2 to 3 million lives each year. As a direct result of immunization, the world is closer than ever to eradicating polio, and deaths from measles – a major child killer – have declined by 73 per... more

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2015 Pipeline Report HIV, Hepatitis C virus (HCV), and Tuberculosis (TB)

Polly Clayden, Simon Collins, Mike Frick, et al. A. Benzacar; HIV i-BASETREATMENT ACTION GROUP (2015)

Drugs, Diagnostics, Vaccines, Preventive Technologies, Research toward a cure, and immune-based and gene therapies in development

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Polio Lesson Plan

Peace Corps (2010)

This is a part of a series of lesson plans created by Peace Corps volunteers in Senegal about vaccine preventable diseases

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Zero by 30: the global strategic plan to end human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030: United Against Rabies Collaboration: first annual progress report

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

Rabies is entirely preventable, and vaccines, medicines, tools and technologies have long been available to prevent people from dying of dog-mediated rabies. Nevertheless, rabies still kills about 60 000 people a year, of whom over 40% are children under 15, mainly in rural areas of economically ... more

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COVAX: Structure and Principles

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This document outlines the working structure and guiding principles for collaboration of COVAX, the Vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A). The working structure of COVAX continues to adapt to emerging needs and the changing trajectory of the pandemic. Some components of... more

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Neonatal Tetanus Elimination Field Guide

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2005) C_WHO

In many countries neonatal tetanus is responsible for half of all neonatal deaths due to vaccine-preventable diseases and for almost 14% of al¡ infant deaths. It is estimated that in the 1970s more than 10,000 newborns died annually from neonatal tetanus in the Americas. Neonatal tetanus is prevent... more

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Virtual cold chain equipment industry consultation – November 2020

UN Children's Fund UNICEF; GAVI (2020) C_UNICEF

Presentations and agenda of the meeting held to update industry on the COVAX Facility and Gavi’s support for cold chain equipment (CCE) for COVID-19 vaccines.

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Central African Republic Situation Report for the VDPV2 Response N°6 from June 29 to July 05, 2019

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UN Children's Fund, Government of the Central African Republic (2019) C1

Since May 2019, Confirmation of 4 new emergence of type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV2) in Bambari (2) and Bimbo (2) health districts without any genetic link between them and other known viruses ; Bambari Health District: CAF-RS4-BAM-19-058, onset of paralysis: May 02, 2019. 07 positive contac... more

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Access to medicine Index 2022

Access to Medicine Foundation (2022) C2

Globally each year, millions of people suffer illness or lose their lives because the vaccines, medicines and diagnostic tests that they need are either unavailable or unaffordable – and this lack of access to medicine is acute in low- and middle-in- come countries (LMICs). While the COVID-19 pan... more

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Immunization Essentials a practical Field Guide

USAID USAID (2004) CC

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of essential information related to immunization, including technical information about vaccines, a review of immunization program management best practices, guidance on the delivery of immunization services, monitoring and evaluation, disease surveillanc... more

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Enhancing response to Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

21 January 2022 The overall threat posed by Omicron largely depends on four key questions: (i) how transmissible the variant is; (ii) how well vaccines and prior infection protect against infection, transmission, clinical disease and death; (iii) how virulent the variant is compared to other varian... more

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Guidance on operational microplanning for COVID-19 vaccination

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This publication is a companion document to the NDVP National Deployment and Vaccination Plans guidance, which provides a framework for countries to develop their national strategies. As countries face challenges with erratic vaccine supplies, use of multiple vaccine products with different charact... more

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Bridging the gap between ethics and decision-making in pandemics - Report of the WHO Pandemic Ethics and Policy Summit

World Health Organization WHO OCHA Services reliefweb (2022) C_WHO

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised profound ethical challenges on an unprecedented global scale. These challenges include how to allocate scarce resources (especially vaccines and therapeutics), both within and between countries, whether and when to mandate vaccines and/or masks, whether and how to co... more

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Update 80: What we know about new COVID-19 Variants of Concern - the latest on the global situation & Omicron BA.4/5

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

While COVID-19 virus continues to circulate and evolve, new variants are constantly emerging. Most of the current COVID-19 cases are driven by the circulation of the BA.5 subvariant of Omicron. The COVID-19 vaccines are being updated with Omicron variants to provide broader immunity against circulat... more

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Vaccination and trust: how concerns arise and the role of communication in mitigating crises

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2021) C_WHO

When situations occur in which unwanted events are rightly or wrongly connected with vaccination, they may erode confidence in vaccines and the authorities delivering them. This document presents the scientific evidence behind WHO’s recommendations on building and restoring confidence in vaccines ... more

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The Immunological Basis for Immunization Series - Module 5: Tuberculosis

World Health Organization (2021) C_WHO

Update 2021; Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals

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Measles Outbreak in the Pacific - Situation Report No 4, December 3, 2019

World Health Organization, UN Children's Fund (2019)

To date, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and American Samoa have reported measles cases. The outbreaks in Samoa and Tonga are caused by the D8 strain (genotype) of measles virus. Measles vaccine coverage varies in Pacific island countries and areas, ranging from 31% in Samoa to 99% in the Cook Islands, Nauru and... more

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Reaching Every District (RED)

World Health Organization ( WHO), Regional Oﬃce for Africa (2017) C_WHO

A guide to increasing coverage and equity in all communities in the African Region
Expanded Programs on Immunization (EPI) is responsible for vaccines and vaccination to control, eliminate and eradicate vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs). Having strong immunization systems to deliver vaccines ... more

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ACT-A - Urgent Priorities & Financing Requirements at 10 November 2020

World Health Organization (WHO), The Global Fund, Gavi et al. World Health Organization (WHO) (2020) CC

Six months after its launch on 24 April, the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator has already delivered concrete results in speeding up the development of new therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccines. Now mid-way through the scale-up phase, the tools we need to fundamentally change the course o... more

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Provision of immunization services to refugees: guidance for host countries in the context of mass population movement from Ukraine

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Many of the countries in the European Region receiving refugees from Ukraine are already offering vaccination services to children and adults. This is important to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission among people travelling or living in close quarters, to protect the refugees from diseases th... more