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 The current situation of Influenza A (H1N1); the facts about pandemics, pandemic threats and alert phases; questions and answers related to vaccines; and useful advice for individuals. These are some of the topics discussed in the latest issue of PAHO's Immunization Newsletter. The idea is to provide readers a single reference document about the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:03 |
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Preparedness Planning for Influenza Pandemic
with Vaccine Suppliers Meeting
Washington Objective:
Strengthening public/private partnership for pandemic vaccine supply to the Americas n, D.C., 21 November 2005 |
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Most of the fact sheet documents are in PDF file format. To view this PDF file you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free at: www.adobe.com | Documents: | | |   | Polio Weekly Highlight, week (21) ending 24 May 2008
World Health Assembly adopts polio eradication resolution
Polio Eradication | | Polio Weekly Highlight, week (20) ending 17 May 2008
Rate of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP), The Americas, 2007
PowerPoint Slide | | Polio Weekly Highlight, week (19) ending 10 May 2008
Progress towards interrupting wild poliovirus transmission worldwide, January 2007– April 2008
Weekly Epidemiological Record | | Polio Weekly Highlight, week (18) ending 3 May 2008
Wild Poliovirus infected districts*, 07 Nov 2007 – 06 May 2008
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Preventing Disease and Protecting Health
Vaccines: Preventing Disease and Protecting Health celebrates the various ways vaccines have played a role in improving the health of the world’s populations. In early sections, the book relates successful efforts to fight disease with vaccines, including the eradication of polio from the Americas and the potential contribution of new measles vaccine formulations to reducing measles mortality worldwide. It also looks at the challenges posed in using vaccines to cope with emerging and re-emerging diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and bioterrorism. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 19:01 |
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 Researchers Report that Better Screening, Treatment, and Affordable Vaccines Can Prevent Doubling of Cervical Cancer Deaths in Latin America, Caribbean
Thirty-three thousand women in Latin America and the Caribbean die each year of preventable cervical cancer, according to a new study. Dramatic new opportunities offered by better screening, treatment and the securing of an affordable vaccine for girls and young women could reduce the current death toll and prevent it from rising. More » | |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 06:41 |
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 | The second edition of Recent Advances in Immunization was launched in December 2006 during a press conference held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The new publication "provides the strategies and tactics to help us reach the goals of sustaining our immunization achievements and reaching the people who have not benefited from existing and new vaccines," according to Dr. Jon K. Andrus, Lead Technical Advisor with the Immunization Unit and one of the book's two editors. |
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