This short summary of immunization facts provides an overview of immunization and a 10-slide presentation on immunization facts.

The JE section of this report summarizes current activities aimed at furthering JE control through immunization, including clinical trials, the establishment of an AEFI surveillance network, vaccine introduction strategies, and development of new JE …

This report, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, provides essential background information on pneumococcal disease and gives the current World Health Organization position concerning the use of the 23-valent …

This document provides the 61st World Health Assembly's resolution on the Global Immunization Strategy.

The authors of this study, published in the journal Vaccine, analyzed advantages and disadvantages of different ways vaccine manufacturers access new technologies. Among the methods considered were collaborations with academia and research …

Investigators collected specimens from children with acute gastroenteritis and determined that rotavirus was the most predominant cause. This article was published in BMC Infectious Diseases.

This report estimates the global incidence of acute intussusception, outlines clinical presentation, and offers guidelines for clinical management.

Published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, this article discusses the large role pneumonia plays in the deaths of children in the developing world and the need to address these deaths through the use of prevention and treatment …

This web page provides information on influenza, including disease burden and vaccines , as well as links to relevant documents in influenza.

This review, published in the journal Pediatrics, examines questions about the use and impact of multiple vaccines on an infant's immune system.

This website is a resource on Advance Market Commitments, an innovative finacing mechanism, as well as the pilot AMC for pneumococcal disease.

This informative fact sheet provides a definition of Advance Market Commitments, or AMCs, as a potential financing mechanism for bringing new vaccines to the developing world and also outlines WHO's position on them.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices consists of 15 experts in fields associated with immunization who provide advice and guidance to the US government on the control of vaccine-preventable diseases. This website provides their …

This manual provides information on how to generate and maintain support for vaccination programs.

This document from the African Rotavirus Surveillance Network provides an update on data generated from rotavirus surveillance at participating sites in the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

An informational brochure for parents. The Immunization Action Coalition promotes physician, community, and family awareness of, and responsibility for, appropriate immunization of all children and adults against all vaccine-preventable diseases.

This website provides information on a range of child health issues. The AAP is dedicated to improving the social, mental, and physical health and well-being of children.

The American Liver Foundation's web page on hepatitis B includes a description of the disease, how it's diagnosed, how it's treated, and the best way to prevent it.

The AMA is deciated to the promotion of the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. This web page provides information on childhood vaccination.

This study, published in the journal Pediatrics, reviews cases presented to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System in order to determine whether severe adverse events other than intussusception occurred after vaccination with an …

This interesting analysis of press coverage examines the most common anti-immunization "themes" in the Australian press and suggests possible advocacy strategies for countering the negative impact of such reportage. Adapted from: …

This well-written and formatted, 130-page training manual provides tools to help people engage in the advocacy process. Though written specifically for an African audience, the guide can be used anywhere. The full guide has been divided into three …

Published in Epidemiology and Infection, this article examines both population- and facility-based studies of ETEC infections and identifys a need for additional large, population-based studies combined with facility-based studies covering …

Published in Epidemiology and Infection, this article seeks to identify contemporary gaps in the understanding of the global epidemiology of shigellosis, through a review of the English-language scientific literature from 1984 to 2005, …

This article was published in the journal Vaccine. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is the most common bacterial cause of diarrhoea in the world, annually affecting up to 400,000,000 children under 5 years of age living in developing …