This comprehensive report includes expert articles on a variety of vaccine-related topics and updates on vaccine research for specific infectious diseases, such as influenza, malaria, respiratory syncytial virus, and rotavirus.

This literature review analyzes the use of technical information for influencing policy.

The Effective Vaccine Stores Management (EVSM) assessment tool was created to help countries and agencies evaluate critical components of the country’s primary vaccine store. To date, 57 countries have completed the EVSM assessment. This …

Technologies related to the temperature control of vaccines during the distribution process are essential to the cool chain. This report provides a landscape analysis of these technologies and their appropriateness for use with vaccines in …

This white paper provides an analysis of supply-side constraints and demand-side determinants of routine immunization coverage in Nigeria. It emphasizes that tackling the basic barriers to routine immunization in Nigeria—cold chain, transport, …

The Africa Routine Immunization System Essentials (ARISE) project documents successful interventions that drive strong routine immunization system performance in Africa and analyzes their potential for diffusion throughout the region. ARISE …

This landscape analysis identifies trends in the availability of vaccines and novel vaccine delivery technologies that are and will be of relevance to low- and middle-income countries from the present through 2025.

This article provides a comparison of the available JE vaccines through a discussion of efficacy, route of administration, safety, and immunogenicity, among others.

This publication, produced by the US Agency for International Development's Deliver Project, considers the reality of health care waste management practices in resource-limited settings, and offers solutions based on actual experience …

This document offers simple and practical tips for clinicians and other health care workers providing long term and follow up care of pediatric encephalitis patients. The linked website also contains resources for assessing disability resulting from …

This interview with Dr. Gellin, head of the National Network for Immunization Information, cautions us not to "use outbreaks as a way of reminding ourselves about the importance of immunization."

This briefing emphasizes the impact of a community's perception of immunization and how that perception can inform interventions and advocacy efforts.

This report provides an overview of a 2001 meeting of experts that reviewed the malaria vaccine market and identified gaps in essential economic and market information needed to inform decision-makers and ultimately drive the funding/investment …

This report on the Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap establishes a strategic plan for developing and distributing a safe, effective, and affordable vaccine to prevent malaria in children under five years of age in sub-Saharan Africa and other …

This resource details recommended procedures for diagnosing japanese encephalitis in the laboratory as part of routine surveillance. The current draft is intended for evaluation purposes.

This report provides an update on japanese encephalitis surveillance, diagnostics, and immunization programs in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific.

This report provides an update on JE surveillance, diagnostics, and immunization programs in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific.

Project Optimize and the Tunisian Ministry of Public Health are collaborating to explore new logistics and supply chain solutions that can optimize the vaccine supply chain. This report describes a study that project Optimize commissioned to assess …

On behalf of Partnerships for Health Reform Plus, this paper evaluates public and private provision of health care services in low- and middle-income developing countries through a framework intended to help governments analyze the costs and …

This report summarizes the design and key findings of temperature monitoring studies that gathered ambient temperature data during different HPV vaccine delivery strategies and in multiple geographic settings and seasons.

This report discusses a five-year human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine demonstration project in Uganda that aims to demonstrate how existing health systems can be adapted to successfully provide HPV vaccine to young adolescent girls. HPV vaccine …

This document reviews the factors affecting vaccine wastage and discusses the tools available for reducing wastage and their relationships to each other, with the aim of providing assistance to program managers to establish a system for …

This issue brief examines screening in the era of HPV vaccination and provides the latest evidence on new screening and treatment modalities for developing countries. It summarizes the current evidence on various options, namely cervical cytology …

This report presents the results of demonstration projects and other activities undertaken in Albania as part of a partnership between project Optimize (a collaboration between the World Health Organization and PATH) and the Albanian Institute of …

Project Optimize and the Vietnamese National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology collaborated on a series of activities designed to assess the opportunities and needs for strengthening the immunization system in Vietnam. This document reports the …