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pdf AMR RCC 1st Final Report, Washington,DC  Published Popular

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pdf AMR RCC 2nd Final Report, Brasilia, Brazil  Published Popular

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American Regional Commission for Certification of Poliovirus Laboratory Containment and Verification of Poliofree Status (AMR RCC)
FINAL REPORT Brasilia, Brazil

pdf Brochure: Immunization in the Americas, 2005 Summary  Published Popular

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pdf Brochure: Immunization in the Americas, 2006 Summary  Published Popular

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pdf Brochure: Immunization in the Americas, 2007 Summary  Published Popular

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pdf Control of Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Haemophilus influenzae type b and Hepatitis B Field Guide  Published Popular

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The book was designed by PAHO to provide health professionals with a quick reference tool for these five diseases and the vaccines used to prevent them. The guide summarizes clinical information on these diseases; outlines the public health strategies currently available to control and prevent them, including surveillance and vaccination; and examines the existing monovalent vaccines.

 

 

pdf Control of Yellow Fever: Field Guide  Published Popular

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Yellow fever remains an important public health problem in the Americas. Occasional cases of jungle yellow fever and the proliferation of Aedes aegypti across the Hemisphere are evidence of the continued high risk of the reurbanization that this disease continues to pose.

pdf Data and Indicators of Rotavirus Surveillance in Reporting Countries in the Americas, 2007  Published Popular

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pdf Fatal adverse events following receipt of yellow fever vaccine  Published Popular

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In recent weeks, four fatal cases of adverse events following administration of yellow fever vaccine (17DD sub-strain) manufactured by Bio-Manguinhos, Brazil have been reported to the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO).

pdf Fifth Annual Vaccination Week in the Americas  Published Popular

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Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) originated with a proposal by the ministers of health of the Andean countries aimed at controlling a measles outbreak in Venezuela and Colombia in 2002. It became a hemispheric initiative in 2003, when the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) adopted Resolution CD44.R1.

pdf Folleto: Inmunización en las Américas, Resumen 2005  Published Popular

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pdf Folleto: Inmunización en las Américas, Resumen 2006  Published Popular

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pdf Folleto: Inmunización en las Américas, Resumen 2007  Published Popular

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pdf Immunization Newsletter, June 2008  Published Popular

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pdf Measles Elimination Field Guide  Published Popular

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This guide draws on the experience gained in the Western Hemisphere over the past years, highlighting the surveillance and vaccination strategies necessary to eliminate measles and to monitor and sustain the progress toward that goal. It can be used in any country, although some of the measures described may need to be adapted to local conditions.

pdf Methodology for the Evaluation of Missed Opportunities for Vaccination, 2013  Published Popular

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pdf Methodology for the Evaluation of Missed Opportunities for Vaccination, 2014  Published Popular

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pdf Methodology for the Multidisciplinary Evaluation of the Expanded Program on Immunization  Published Popular

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This document describes the guidelines of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) for evaluating the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) at the country level. It is a response to the countries' need to improve the use of their technical and financial resources, to the recommendations of the Technical Advisory Group of the EPI, and to the mandates of the governments of the countries of the Hemisphere themselves.

pdf Options for the use of human H5N1 influenza vaccines  Published Popular

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pdf PAHO-WHO Statement on adverse events following receiving yellow fever vaccine  Published Popular

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This PAHO/WHO statement provides results of the investigation of serious adverse events that occurred in October 2007 following administration of yellow fever vaccine (17DD substrain) manufactured by Bio-Manguinhos, Brazil.

A previous PAHO/WHO statement on the reported events was issued on 2 November 2007 and recommended temporary suspension of specific lots of the vaccine.

pdf Polio Eradication Field Guide  Published Popular

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The strategies that made polio eradication in the Americas possible are the same ones currently being implemented on a global scale and, essentially, those that will make it possible to keep the countries of the Americas polio-free: to achieve and maintain high vaccination coverage and adequate epidemiological surveillance.

pdf Protecting the Health of the Americas; Moving from Child to Family Immunization  Published Popular

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The XVII Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Vaccine-preventable Diseases of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) was held from 25-27 July 2006 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The TAG recognized the substantial progress achieved by member countries since the last meeting in 2004, and the high quality presentations and abstracts at this meeting. This meeting focused on the new challenges involving the transition from child to family immunization. In addressing this unfinished agenda –protecting achievements and facing new challenges– representatives from countries of the Region of the Americas shared their experiences since the last TAG.

pdf ProVac Vaccine Supplement Launch  Published Popular

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pdf RAI, Preparing for the influenza pandemic  Published Popular

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pdf Recommendations to maintain the Americas free of measles and rubella - 11 March 2014  Published Popular

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pdf Rubella Case Investigation Form  Published Popular

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Measles/Rubella Case Investigation Form