This article, from the Weekly Epidemiological Record, reports on the outcome of a meeting of the World Health Organization's independent, authoritative vaccine safety committee where they reviewed postmarketing surveillance that indicated the …

This article, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, details the 2009 meningitis epidemic season in Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. It includes an overview of meningococcal disease, surveillance results for the season, and outbreak response …

MVP News Digest provides a quarterly update of activities at the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP), a partnership between the World Health Organization and PATH. MVP works to eliminate epidemic meningitis as a public health problem in sub-Saharan …

This article, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, summarizes essential background information on meningococcal meningitis and vaccines against the disease. It also includes the current World Health Organization (WHO) position …

This article, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, summarizes the World Health Organization's recommendations on meningococcal vaccines. It incorporates the most recent developments in the field of meningococcal vaccines, including …

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publish Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, an excellent source for up-to-date information on disease surveillance in the United States and globally.

This article, featured in Science in Africa, outlines the burden of meningoccoal disease in Africa and discusses various projects to develop a new meningococcal vaccine for Africa that can provide long-term protection across all age groups and that …

Published in Weekly Epidemiological Record, this report presents an update on research for Shigella vaccine development and the recommendations of a WHO meeting to accelerate the development of Shigella vaccines.

During seasonal influenza epidemics and previous pandemics, pregnant women have been at increased risk for complications related to influenza infection. In addition, maternal influenza virus infection and accompanying hyperthermia place fetuses at …

Despite advances in prevention and treatment, AIDS, tuberculosis, and cervical cancer remain among the most serious and costly threats to world health. This article, published by the Population Reference Bureau, outlines the potential impact of …

The Op.ti.mize e-newsletter is a quarterly publication that highlights advances and innovations in health care logistics, technologies, and policy. Developed by Project Optimize, a collaboration between the World Health Organization and PATH, this …

This article, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, analyzes data for 2002 to 2008 from the Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis (PBM) Surveillance Network, which collects information on laboratory-confirmed bacterial meningitis cases among …

This article, published in Weekly Epidemiological Record, is a summary of pneumococcal disease and its burden, as well as the official World Health Organization (WHO) position on use of conjugate vaccines in a global context. In 2012, the …

This article, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, summarizes the World Health Organization's (WHO's) recommendations on pneumococcal vaccines and related issues, including disease surveillance, epidemiology, and studies to evaluate …

This article, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, summarizes the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices review of post-marketing safety surveillance data on RotaTeq®, the rotavirus vaccine by Merck & Co., Inc. The …

This report includes the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended pneumococcal vaccination schedule for infants at ages 2, 4, 6, and 12 to 15 months. This report also includes a …

Published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, this article provides recommendations on the use of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines to prevent pneumococcal disease.

This report, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, provides background on the development of RotaTeq®, Merck's vaccine against rotavirus, and recommendations for its use in the prevention of rotavirus through immunization.

This issue of Outlook provides information on opportunities for preventing cervical cancer through vaccination and screening. It summarizes evidence on the safety and efficacy of human papillomavirus vaccines as well as successful approaches for …

This report, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, discusses the progress of Hib vaccine use, as well as the strategies and collaborative efforts that have contributed to an increase in the number of countries …

This report, from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, discusses the increased use of the Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine during 2004 through 2007.

This article featured in PATH’s programmatic newsletter, Directions in Global Health, discusses PATH's JE project and their work in Asia.

This article, featured in the World Health Organization's Weekly Epidemiological Record, presents what the potential scenarios were for meningitis epidemics in Africa in the 2007-2008 seasons and provides information on the expected availability of …

These alerts are distributed periodically via email to provide information on breaking news related to rotavirus disease and vaccines and to provide the latest news on progress made by PATH and its partners toward increasing global access to …

This article, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, presents data collected from 43 countries by the global surveillance network for rotavirus from January through December 2009. The data indicate that rotavirus disease is still a …