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Resource type: Report
Total results with these characteristics: 218
- Progress for Children: A Report Card on Immunization
This report analyzes global immunization progress and challenges, with a focus on regional activities.
Author: UNICEF
Published: 2005
- Progress in Cervical Cancer Prevention: The CCA Report Card
This report assesses global readiness to fight cervical cancer using new approaches and new technologies, especially in regions where the disease is a common killer. It underscores the urgent need for the global community to prioritize cervical …
Author: Cervical Cancer Action
Published: 2012
- Progress in Improving the Safety of Injections in the EPI Western Pacific Region
Includes a "Guide for developing a national plan of action for injection safety" and a "Checklist for EPI supervisors—sterilization and injection practices."
Author: World Health Organization
Published: 1998
- Protecting Children for a Healthy Tomorrow: Lessons From the Andhra Pradesh Partnership Project on Immunization
This publication outlines the activities undertaken in the five-year Partnership Project on Immunization by the Indian state government of Andhra Pradesh and PATH to strengthen routine immunization by introduction of the hepatitis B vaccine in …
Author: PATH; Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
Published: 2006
- Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health: How PATH Advances Technologies Through Cross-Sector Collaboration
This policy report highlights the essential role that public-private partnerships play in driving global health product development, including vaccines and related technologies, and offers insights into the key components of successful …
Author: PATH
Published: 2013
- Pull Mechanisms for Value-Added Technologies for Vaccines
The Optimize project, a collaboration between PATH and the World Health Organization, commissioned this white paper to examine the issues influencing vaccine producer willingness to advance, adopt, and commercialize value-added technologies for …
Author: PATH, World Health Organization
Published: 2009
- Ranking Vaccines: A Prioritization Framework - Phase I: Demonstration of Concept and a Software Blueprint
As new vaccine development opportunities continue to arise, it can be difficult for decision-makers to know where to invest their limited resources. This report describes a decision-support model and the blueprint of accompanying software being …
Author: Institute of Medicine
Published: 2012
- Record of the Meeting of the Advsiory Committee on Immunization Practices
The meeting report outlines the committee's recommendations for introduction of RotaTeq® into the routine US immunization schedule and provides guidance on addressing special circumstances in relation to administration of the vaccine. The …
Author: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Published: 2006
- Report of the Informal Consultation on Meningococcal Carriage Studies in Africa
This report summarizes a meeting organized by the World Health Organization to discuss meningococcal carriage studies in Africa that could provide data to support the introduction of the meningococcal A conjugate vaccine in the region. The …
Author: World Health Organization
Published: 2005
- Report of the Second WHO Consultation on the Global Action Plan for Influenza Vaccines (GAP)
This report of the second World Health Organization Consultation on the Global Action Plan for Influenza Vaccines (GAP-II) held July 12 to 14, 2011, summarizes the overview of GAP activities in the first five years and proposed action points …
Author: World Health Organization
Published: 2012
- Report on "Consultative Meeting on Japanese Encephalitis (JE) Prevention and Control"
The Consultative Meeting on JE Prevention and Control was convened by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 12. This official meeting record includes participants, objectives, and …
Author: Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control & Research
Published: 2009
- Report on the Japanese Encephalitis Disability Assessment
The burden of disability among JE survivors has been a neglected area of study. This assessment, performed by the Government of Cambodia in partnership with PATH, found one in four children infected with JE either died or suffered severe sequelae …
Author: Cambodian Ministry of Health
Published: 2008
- Responses to Avian Influenza and State of Pandemic Readiness: Fourth Global Progress Report
This report focuses on progress with responses to avian influenza and with pandemic preparedness between June 2007 and June 2008. Where data allow, the report looks back over the last three years. It also: 1) describes international financial …
Author: United Nations System Influenza Coordinator, The World Bank
Published: 2008
- Results From a Survey of Immunization Stakeholders in Vietnam Regarding the Presentation, Packaging, and Distribution of Human Papillomavirus Vaccines
This report summarizes results from a survey which obtained input from stakeholders within the Expanded Programme on Immunization in Vietnam about issues and perceptions related to the storage, distribution, and delivery of the current and potential …
Author: PATH, World Health Organization
Published: 2009
- Review of Financing of Immunization Programs in Developing and Transitional Countries
On behalf of Partnerships for Health Reform, this report analyzes available information on financing immunization programs in developing countries, and focuses cost implications of new vaccine introduction, government and donor funding trends, …
Author: DeRoeck D, Levin A
Published: 1998
- A Review of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vaccine Management Business Improvement Project
This report details the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Vaccine Management Business Improvement Project, which was an end-to-end reengineering of the US public-sector vaccine supply chain—from vaccine …
Author: PATH, World Health Organization
Published: 2010
- The Right Shot: Extending the Reach of Affordable and Adapted Vaccines
Lack of information on both the price and the different product characteristics of vaccines limits countries’ ability to operate affordable and effective immunization programs. This report aims to remedy some of the existing knowledge gaps by …
Author: Médecins Sans Frontières
Published: 2012
- Role(s) of Vaccines and Immunization Programs in Global Disease Control: Mind the Nitty-Gritty Details
This report, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies Global Health Policy Center, focuses on the details of the complex biological, epidemiologic, and risk-management concepts that are the foundations of global and …
Author: Nieburg P, McLaren NM
Published: 2011
- Safety of Injections: WHO-UNICEF-UNFPA Joint Statement on the Use of Auto-Disable Syringes in Immunization Services
This policy statement outlines recommended approaches to immunization safety through the use of auto-disable syringes and proper sharps disposal.
Author: World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the United Nations Population Fund
Published: 2003
- The Science of Immunisation: Questions and Answers
This publication aims to address confusion created by contradictory information in the public domain regarding immunization. It sets out to explain the current situation in immunization science, including where there is consensus in the scientific …
Author: Australian Academy of Science
Published: 2012
- Senegal: Changing the Face of Immunization in West Africa
This report discusses the work of PATH's Children's Vaccine Program in conjunction with the Senegalese government, health care workers, and local communities to introduce innovative, practical technologies to improve vaccine delivery …
Author: PATH
Published: 2004
- Setting the Immunization Agenda Through Advocacy and Communication
This document reports on a high-level meeting about setting the immunization agenda through advocacy and communication, held in London in January 2008. The meeting was held jointly by the United Kingdom Department of Health and the World …
Author: World Health Organization
Published: 2008
- Shaping a Strategy to Introduce HPV Vaccines in India—Formative Research Results From the HPV Vaccines: Evidence for Impact Project
This report summarizes results from formative research in two states of India—Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat—regarding the health systems and policy context that will affect human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine introduction, as well as …
Author: PATH
Published: 2009
- Shaping a Strategy to Introduce HPV Vaccines in Peru—Formative Research Results From the HPV Vaccines: Evidence for Impact Project
This report summarizes results from formative research in Peru regarding the health systems and policy context that will affect human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine introduction, as well as beliefs, values, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors related …
Author: PATH
Published: 2009
- Shaping a Strategy to Introduce HPV Vaccines in Uganda—Formative Research Results From the HPV Vaccines: Evidence for Impact Project
This report summarizes results from formative research in Uganda regarding the health systems and policy context that will affect human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine introduction, as well as beliefs, values, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors …
Author: PATH
Published: 2009

