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EPI Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 1 - 1979

Introducing the EPI Newsletter

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, program management

Category: Announcements

Epidemiology [of vaccine-preventable diseases]

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance,vaccine-preventable diseases, diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Research: Measles Vaccination

Health Topics: measles, measles vaccine

Category: Updates

EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

Training Activities

Health Topics: training

Category: Updates

The Cold Chain

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Agreement for Technical Cooperation on EPI: Colombia and PAHO

Health Topics: technical cooperation, immunization partnerships, program management

Category: Announcements

Peru: Manual of Operations

Health Topics: technical guidelines

Category: Announcements

1980 Vaccine orders: EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Updates

BCG Vaccine: Storage Temperature

Health Topics: BCG, cold chain

Category: Updates

EPI National Program Managers

Health Topics: program management

Category: Announcements

Vaccination schedules in PAHO member countries

Health Topics: [immunization] schedules

Category: Vaccination Schedules

Selected Readings

Health Topics: publications

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 2 - 1979

Country operations: Costa Rica

Health Topics: program management, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), measles, polio, coverage, [coverage] surveys

Category: Country Experience

Training activities

Health Topics: training

Category: Announcements

Epidemiology - Poliomyelitis in the Americas:1976-78

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Updates

Cold Chain

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Vaccines

Health Topics: vaccine quality control, cold chain, polio vaccine

Category: Updates

Incidence of EPI diseases in the Americas: 1978-79

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI national program manager: Update for Honduras and the Dominican Republic

Health Topics: program management

Category: Announcements

New memeber of EPI Revolving Fund: Costa Rica

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

PAHO Executive Committee: $800,000 for EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

Cold chain equipment for the Caribbean

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 3 - 1979

EPI Revolving Fund: Third quarter operations

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

EPI Revolving Fund: Vaccine orders for 1980

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

Epidemiology - Measles: An outbreak in Panama City, 1979

Health Topics: measles, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Poliomyelitis: Honduras 1979

Health Topics: polio, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Measles in the Region of the Americas

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Cold chain - Refrigerator for health center use

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Cold chain - Agreement between PAHO/ Ministry of Health of Columbia/ CIMDER

Health Topics: revolving fund, immunization partnerships

Category: Country Experience

EPI Vaccines - Instituto Nacional de Virología, Mexico

Health Topics: vaccine quality control, laboratory

Category: Announcements

Other vaccines

Health Topics: yellow fever vaccine, rotavirus vaccine

Category: Announcements

Reported cases of EPI diseases in the Americas and the Caribbean

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Data Summaries

Netherlands contributes to EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, revolving fund

Category: Announcements

New participant in EPI Revolving Fund: Suriname

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

International course on viral vaccine: Argentina, 12-30 November 1979

Health Topics: training

Category: Announcements

Selected readings

Health Topics: publications

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 4 - 1979

Country operations - Expanded Program on Inmunization in Brazil: Vaccination coverage

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, [immunization] schedules, coverage, vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Country Experience

Cold chain - Summary of refrigerator testing

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

EPI Revolving Fund - - Summary of 1979 operations

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Updates

International symposium on pertussis

Health Topics: training, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Announcements

Improved stability of freeze-dried measles vaccine

Health Topics: measles vaccine, vaccine production

Category: Updates

Regional self-sufficiency in vaccines for the EPI program

Health Topics: vaccine production

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Data Summaries

Second international course on tissue culture titration of viral vaccine

Health Topics: training, laboratory

Category: Announcements

Polio epidemic in Honduras: Follow up

Health Topics: polio, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

PAHO Directing Council resolutions on EPI

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability, program management, revolving fund, cold chain, information systems, epidemiological surveillance

Category: PAHO Directing Council

EPI Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 1 - 1980

EPI Global Advisory Group Meeting

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, world health organization (WHO), technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Training activities - Summary of EPI courses, 1979

Health Topics: training

Category: Announcements

Training activities - Continuing education in family health nursing

Health Topics: training

Category: Announcements

Status of immunization programs in the American Region

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, program management, coverage

Category: Updates

EPI Revolving Fund - First quarter operation, 1980

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Updates

Vaccines - Live attenuated measles vaccine

Health Topics: measles vaccine, vaccine production

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Cold Chain

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 2 - 1980

Country Operations - The Expanded Program on Immunization in Bolivia

Health Topics: program management, [immunization] schedules, vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Country Experience

Epidemiology - Measles in the Region of the Americas, 1978-1979

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Poliomyelitis in Argentina

Health Topics: polio, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Training activities - 1980 EPI courses

Health Topics: training

Category: Announcements

Vaccines - Second WHO Meeting on Pertussis Research

Health Topics: pertussis (whooping cough), world health organization (WHO)

Category: Updates

BCG vaccination in the newborn and young infants

Health Topics: BCG

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Data Summaries

Selected Readings

Health Topics: publications

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 3 - 1980

Country operations - EPI in the English-speaking Caribbean, 1979

Health Topics: program management, [immunization] schedules, coverage, vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Country Experience

Evaluation of immunization status of one-year old children in Recife, Brazil

Health Topics: program management, coverage, surveys

Category: Country Experience

Cold chain - Thermometer for refrigerators

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Cold chain - Summary of tests on vaccine cold boxes and hand carriers

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Data Summaries

Epidemiology - Surveillance guidelines

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, vaccine-preventable diseases, training, technical guidelines, publications

Category: Announcements

Vaccines - The importance of testing vaccines

Health Topics: laboratory, vaccine production, vaccine quality control

Category: PAHO Directing Council

EPI Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 4 - 1980

EPI Revolving Fund - New members

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

EPI Revolving Fund - Summary of 1980 operations to date

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Updates

Epidemiology - Measles in Argentina: 1952-1979

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Diphtheria in Venezuela: 1956-1975

Health Topics: diphtheria, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Terms of reference of the EPI Advisory Group

Health Topics: world health organization (WHO), technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Vaccines - Forty thousand doses of vaccine saved

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Country Experience

Vaccines: WHO international list of availability of vaccines

Health Topics: world health organization (WHO), measles vaccines, polio vaccine, DTP vaccine

Category: Announcements

Vaccines - Retesting of vaccines: update to EPI manual of operations

Health Topics: technical guidelines, vaccine quality control

Category: Updates

Training activities: EPI workshop session on programming immunization services

Health Topics: training, program management, social mobilization

Category: Updates

PAHO Executive Committee meeting, 1980

Health Topics: coverage, epidemiological surveillance, vaccine production, vaccine quality control, cold chain, revolving fund

Category: PAHO Directing Council

EPI national program managers

Health Topics: program management

Category: Announcements

Reported cases of EPI diseases in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Data Summaries

Selected readings

Health Topics: publications

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 5 - 1980

Observations on an outbreak of measles in Serrana municipality, São Paulo state, Brazil

Health Topics: measles, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Measles: United States, first 39 weeks of 1980

Health Topics: measles, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Poliomyelitis: Dominican Republic, 1980

Health Topics: polio, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Developing alternatives for the solution of cold chain problems

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, meales, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough),vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 6 - 1980

EPI global status report

Health Topics: world health organization (WHO), technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Surveillance - Graphic monitoring of immunization coverage

Health Topics: coverage, information systems, program management, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Vaccines - Improved stability of EPI vaccines

Health Topics: cold chain, vaccine production, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Vaccines - Measles vaccine efficacy: United States

Health Topics: measles vaccine

Category: Updates

Status of immunization in the Americas

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, program management, coverage

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Data Summaries

Poliomyelitis: Honduras, 1979

Health Topics: polio, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Poliomyelitis: Venezuela, 1979

Health Topics: polio, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 1 - 1981

Training activites - Local level EPI courses

Health Topics: training, program management

Category: Updates

Training activities - Peru

Health Topics: training, program management

Category: Updates

Training activities - Guatemala

Health Topics: training, program management

Category: Updates

Training activities - British Virgin Islands

Health Topics: training, program management

Category: Updates

Training activities - National cold chain course: Argentina

Health Topics: training, cold chain

Category: Announcements

Control of poliomyelitis in Brazil

Health Topics: polio, polio vaccine, national immunization days (NIDs), vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Measles: Costa Rica, 1979

Health Topics: measles, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Data Summaries

Improved stability of EPI vaccines: Correction

Health Topics: cold chain, vaccine production, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 2 - 1981

Poliomyelitis: Cuba, 1962-1978

Health Topics: polio, polio vaccine, vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Measles: United States

Health Topics: measles

Category: Country Experience

Measles: Costa Rica, 1980

Health Topics: measles

Category: Country Experience

PAHO forms for quartely vaccination reports

Health Topics: information systems, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Announcements

Epidemic outbreak of measles in three central provinces of Chile

Health Topics: measles, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Kerosene for vaccine refrigerators in developing countries

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Heat stability of EPI vaccines

Health Topics: cold chain, BCG, measles vaccine, polio vaccine, DTP vaccine, DT/Td vaccine

Category: Updates

Canadian national advisory committee on immunization (NACI): Further statement on elimination of indigenous measles in Canada

Health Topics: measles, disease elimination/disease eradication, technical guidelines

Category: Country Experience

Barbados contribution to capitalization of the EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

Ecuador: Local EPI courses

Health Topics: training, program management

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 3 - 1981

Multidisciplinary EPI evaluation

Health Topics: monitoring and evaluation, program management, coverage, epidemiological surveillance

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

First regional meeting of EPI national program managers: Quito, Ecuador, 18 to 22 May 1981

Health Topics: program management

Category: Announcements

Panama: summary of immunization data from 1979 family planning/maternal child health survey

Health Topics: coverage, [coverage] surveys, [immunization] schedules, [immunization] schedules

Category: Announcements

Number of reported cases of measles, poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, 1980 and 1979, by country

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 4 - 1981

Multidisciplinary EPI evaluation: Bolivia

Health Topics: monitoring and evaluation, program management, coverage, epidemiological surveillance

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Poliomyelitis: Colombia, 1981

Health Topics: polio, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

The thermostability of different BCG products

Health Topics: BCG, cold chain, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Number of reported cases of measles, poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, 1981 and 1980, by country and date of last report

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI courses in Bolivia

Health Topics: training

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 5 - 1981

Review of poliomyelitis in the Dominican Republic: 1949-1981

Health Topics: polio

Category: Country Experience

Epidemiology of measles in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Health Topics: measles, measles vaccine, coverage

Category: Country Experience

Vaccination coverage and reported cases of diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, measles and poliomyelitis, per 100,000 population (provisional data). Region of the Americas, 1980

Health Topics: coverage, epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Retesting of vaccines: Update to EPI manual of operations

Health Topics: vaccine quality control, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Rotary International support to EPI in Bolivia and Haiti

Health Topics: immunization partnerships

Category: Announcements

Number of reported cases of measles, poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, 1981 and 1980, by country and date of last report

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Cuban contribution to the EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 6 - 1981

EPI Revolving Fund operations, 1979-1981

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices

Category: Updates

Review of poliomyelitis in the Americas, 1979-1980

Health Topics: polio

Category: Updates

Cold chain courses in Mexico

Health Topics: training, cold chain

Category: Announcements

Review of EPI training activites

Health Topics: training

Category: Updates

United States: Measles importations from the Americas

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Immunization status of children entering school in Canada, 1980

Health Topics: coverage

Category: Country Experience

Number of reported cases of measles, poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, 1981, by country and date of last report

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Global Advisory Group holds annual meeting

Health Topics: technical guidelines, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Updates

Mexico contributes to EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 1 - 1982

Measles in the Americas, 1971-80: A 10-year review

Health Topics: measles

Category: Updates

Argentina's EPI evaluation

Health Topics: monitoring and evaluation, program management, epidemiological surveillance

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Cold-chain refrigerator repair and maintenance course held in Peru

Health Topics: cold chain, training

Category: Updates

New Cold-chain management tool is field-tested

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Announcements

Cold-chain testing center readied for operations

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Announcements

PAHO Directing Council approves HFA-2000 plan of action

Health Topics: program management

Category: PAHO Directing Council

Donations to EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Announcements

New EPI Revolving Fund member

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

Number of reported cases of measles, poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, 1981, by country and date of last report

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

New Brunswick is first Canadian province to pass compulsory immunization law

Health Topics: legislation

Category: Country Experience

Bolivia launches EPI newsletter

Health Topics: publications

Category: Announcements

International measles immunization symposium

Health Topics: measles, measles vaccine

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 2 - 1982

EPI five-point action program for the 80s

Health Topics: technical guidelines, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Updates

EPI evaluation in Ecuador

Health Topics: monitoring and evaluation, program management, coverage, epidemiological surveillance

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Choosing a refrigerator or freezer for the EPI cold chain

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

EPI operations in Bolivia, 1981

Health Topics: program management, coverage, immunization partnerships, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Number of reported cases of measles, poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, 1981 and 1980, by country

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Suriname holds EPI workshops

Health Topics: training

Category: Announcements

Costa Rica publishes manual of norms and procedures

Health Topics: technical guidelines

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 3 - 1982

EPI in Cuba

Health Topics: monitoring and evaluation, program management, epidemiological surveillance

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Polio surveillance - Jamaica

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

First national EPI course [in Cuba]

Health Topics: training

Category: Announcements

Polio surveillance - Dominican Republic

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Uruguay approves immunization law

Health Topics: legislation

Category: Country Experience

Evaluation of BCG vaccination programs

Health Topics: BCG, coverage, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Updates

Number of reported cases of measles, poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, 1982 and 1981, by country and date of last report

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Bahamas contributes to EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

Belize holds EPI workshops

Health Topics: training

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 4 - 1982

Polio surveillance - Dominican Republic

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Polio surveillance - Paraguay

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Polio surveillance - Guatemala

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

EPI evaluation in Peru

Health Topics: monitoring and evaluation, program management, coverage, epidemiological surveillance

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Quality control of biologicals

Health Topics: vaccine quality control, BCG, DTP vaccine, DT/Td vaccine, rabies vaccines, polio vaccines

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, neonatal tetanus, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Measles complications in children under 2 years of age

Health Topics: measles

Category: Updates

Chile aids Revolving Fund capitalization

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 5 - 1982

EPI evaluation in the Dominican Republic

Health Topics: monitoring and evaluation, program management, coverage, epidemiological surveillance

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Choosing a cold box or vaccine carrier

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

WHO collaborating center for pertussis research

Health Topics: pertussis (whooping cough), world health organization (WHO), DTP vaccine

Category: Announcements

Identification of the origin of poliovirus isolates

Health Topics: laboratory, polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), neonatal tetanus

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 6 - 1982

Polio surveillance - Guatemala

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Polio surveillance - Brazil

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

The cold chain: a case study

Health Topics: cold chain, training

Category: Updates

Measles surveillance - United States: imported cases, first weeks, 1982

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Argentina hold EPI workshop

Health Topics: training

Category: Announcements

Control of BCG vaccine produced in Latin America

Health Topics: BCG, vaccine quality control

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), neonatal tetanus

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 5 No. 1 - 1983

Colombia undertakes second EPI evaluation

Health Topics: monitoring and evaluation, program management, coverage, epidemiological surveillance

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Polio surveillance - Argentina

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

1981 vaccination coverage in the Americas

Health Topics: coverage

Category: Data Summaries

Rubella: experience in the United States

Health Topics: rubella, congenital rubella syndrome (CRS)

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 5 No. 2 - 1983

Immunization coverage surveys - Suriname

Health Topics: coverage, [coverage] surveys

Category: Country Experience

Immunization coverage surveys - São Paulo, Brazil

Health Topics: coverage, [coverage] surveys

Category: Country Experience

Cold chain: solar refrigerator field tested

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

EPI global advisory group meeting, 1982

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, technical guidelines, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Updates

Poliomyelitis in Guatemala

Health Topics: polio, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 5 No. 3 - 1983

International symposium on poliomyelitis control

Health Topics: polio, polio vaccine, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Updates

Measles vaccine indicator trial in Peru

Health Topics: measles vaccine, cold chain, vaccine quality control, immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

Neonatal tetanus meeting: strategies for control

Health Topics: neonatal tetanus, DT/Td vaccine, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

1983 EPI Revolving Fund vaccine prices

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 5 No. 4 - 1983

International symposium on measles immunization

Health Topics: measles, measles vaccine, technical guidelines, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Updates

1982 vaccination coverage in the Americas

Health Topics: coverage

Category: Data Summaries

New cold chain developments

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Second EPI evaluation in Ecuador

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, program management, coverage, monitoring and evaluation

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Cold chain training in Nicaragua

Health Topics: training, cold chain

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 5 No. 5 - 1983

UNICEF boosts Revolving Fund capitalization

Health Topics: revolving fund

Category: Announcements

EPI in the Americas: a regional overview

Health Topics: program management, revolving fund, information systems, epidemiological surveillance, vaccine-preventable diseases, coverage, cold chain, training, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Updates

PAHO's directing council approves EPI resolution

Health Topics: program management, revolving fund, epidemiological surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, coverage

Category: PAHO Directing Council

Packing vaccine carriers for a longer cold life

Health Topics: cold chain, training

Category: Updates

Measles vaccine indicator trial in Brazil

Health Topics: measles vaccine, cold chain, vaccine quality control, immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

English-speaking Caribbean to set EPI targets for 1985

Health Topics: program management

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 5 No. 6 - 1983

EPI vaccines: indications and contraindications

Health Topics: technical guidelines, polio vaccine, measles vaccine, ESAVI, BCG, DTP vaccine, vaccine safety

Category: Updates

Country operations in the English-speaking Caribbean, 1982

Health Topics: program management, coverage

Category: Announcements

1984 EPI Revolving Fund prices

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices

Category: Announcements

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Venezuela produces new EPI icepacks

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 1 - 1984

Caribbean countries set 1985 targets at Trinidad meeting

Health Topics: coverage, training, program management

Category: Meeting Reports

The EPI vaccines: indications and contraindications

Health Topics: technical guidelines, ESAVI, BCG, DTP vaccine, measles vaccine, polio vaccine, vaccine safety

Category: Updates

Statement of pertussis vaccine

Health Topics: pertussis (whooping cough), DTP vaccine, ESAVI

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Fourth international symposium on pertussis

Health Topics: pertussis (whooping cough), training, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Announcements

Second regional meeting for Latin American EPI managers

Health Topics: program management

Category: Announcements

Symposium on prevention of congenital rubella infection

Health Topics: congenital rubella syndrome (CRS),

Category: Announcements

New publication: recent advances in immunization

Health Topics: publications

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 2 - 1984

Latin American countries set 1985 EPI targets at Lima meeting

Health Topics: program management, coverage, training

Category: Meeting Reports

1983 Immunization coverage in the Americas

Health Topics: coverage

Category: Data Summaries

Revised vaccine retesting guidelines

Health Topics: vaccine quality control, BCG, DTP vaccine, DT/Td vaccine, polio vaccine, measles vaccine, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Use of serological test in the EPI

Health Topics: diphtheria, laboratory, tetanus, polio, measles

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 3 - 1984

Measles in Brazil

Health Topics: measles, outbreaks, [coverage] surveys, measles vaccine

Category: Country Experience

International pediatrics congress promotes immunization

Health Topics: program management, vaccine-preventable diseases, coverage

Category: Announcements

EPI Global Advisory Group recommendations on disease surveillance and neonatal tetanus prevention

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, technical guidelines, neonatal tetanus, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Updates

Polio vaccine price change

Health Topics: revolving fund prices, polio vaccine

Category: Announcements

Polio symposium proceedings published

Health Topics: polio, publications, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Announcements

New publications on maternal and child health

Health Topics: publications

Category: Announcements

Saint Lucia sets 1985 EPI targets

Health Topics: measle vaccine, BCG, EPI, vaccine

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Update on national EPI managers

Health Topics: program management

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 4 - 1984

Contraindications to pertussis vaccine

Health Topics: vaccine safety, technical guidelines, DTP vaccine

Category: Updates

Costing out the cold chain

Health Topics: cold chain, program financing and sustainability

Category: Updates

Test results on Electrolux RCW42 refrigerators

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI evaluations

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, program management, coverage, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Announcements

Refrigerator technicians' repair course

Health Topics: training, cold chain

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 5 - 1984

Evaluating immunization services

Health Topics: program management, technical guidelines, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Updates

Measles in the United States, first 26 weeks, 1984

Health Topics: measles, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

EPI in Suriname increases immunization coverage

Health Topics: legislation, coverage

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 6 - 1984

Attaining higher coverage: obstacles to overcome

Health Topics: program management, technical guidelines, coverage, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Updates

Banishing measles from the world

Health Topics: measles, disease elimination/disease eradication, measles vaccine

Category: Updates

Nursing responsibilities in immunization

Health Topics: program management, training

Category: Updates

Using a pressure cooker as an autoclave

Health Topics: vaccine safety, training

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Revolving Fund contracts set vaccine prices

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 7 No. 1 - 1985

Polio outbreak in Honduras - Clinical efficacy of trivalent oral polio vaccine tested

Health Topics: polio, polio vaccine, outbreak

Category: Country Experience

National vaccination days in Bolivia - Higher coverage attained through public participation

Health Topics: community mobilization, national immunization days (NIDs), program management, polio, measles, coverage

Category: Country Experience

Panama increases measles surveillance

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 7 No. 2 - 1985

El Salvador accelerates EPI

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, community mobilization, polio vaccine, DTP vaccine, measles vaccine, DT/Td vaccine, neonatal tetanus

Category: Country Experience

Rotary International promotes immunization activities

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, polio, polio vaccine

Category: Announcements

Brazil holds first refrigerator repair and maintenance course

Health Topics: cold chain, training

Category: Announcements

Venezuela conducts first EPI evaluation

Health Topics: program management, epidemiological surveillance, coverage, monitoring and evaluation

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 7 No. 3 - 1985

Goal for 1990: Polio eradication in the Americas

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: PAHO Resolutions

Argentina first country to declare national commitment to eradication plan

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Announcements

Poliomyelitis in the Americas, 1969-1984

Health Topics: polio vaccine, polio, epidemiological surveillance, coverage

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Why polio?

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Updates

Highlights from the plan of action on polio eradication

Health Topics: technical guidelines, vaccine-preventable diseases, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 7 No. 4 - 1985

EPI Global Advisory Group recommendations

Health Topics: technical guidelines, disease elimination/disease eradication, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Updates

Protecting the world's children: The Bellagio conference

Health Topics: immunization partnerships

Category: Announcements

John F. Enders, Nobel Prize winning microbiologist, dies at 88

Health Topics: laboratory, polio vaccine

Category: In Memoriam

Interagency Coordinating Committee meets in Washington

Health Topics: inter-agency coordinating committee, polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, program financing and sustainability

Category: Announcements

Paraguay supports polio initiative

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Announcements

Update on polio eradication - Technical Advisory Group holds first meeting

Health Topics: technical guidelines, polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Meeting Reports

Increasing vaccination coverage: A search for new strategies

Health Topics: coverage, missed vaccination opportunities, program management

Category: Country Experience

Missed immunization opportunities

Health Topics: missed vaccination opportunities

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

First regional EPI epidemiological surveillance course

Health Topics: training, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 7 No. 5 - 1985

Joint WHO/UNICEF statement - Planning accelerated immunization activities

Health Topics: technical guidelines, immunization partnerships, national immunization days (NIDs), social mobilization, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Declarations

Reappraisal of early OPV and DTP immunization

Health Topics: [immunization] schedules, DTP vaccine, polio vaccine

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

PAHO member countries endorse polio eradication resolution

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination, disease eradication

Category: PAHO Directing Council

EPI Newsletter Vol. 7 No. 6 - 1985

Poliomyelitis update, 1985

Health Topics: polio, polio vaccine, vaccination campaigns

Category: Updates

Nicaragua supports polio eradication

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Announcements

PAHO-Mexico agreement on EPI training and research

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, training

Category: Announcements

Caribbean EPI managers hold second meeting in Trinidad

Health Topics: program management, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Measles in the Americas, 1980-1984

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles

Category: Updates

1986 EPI Revolving Fund prices

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices

Category: Announcements

Guidelines for the retesting of EPI vaccines

Health Topics: vaccine quality control, technical guidelines, BCG, DTP vaccine, DT/Td vaccine, measles vaccine

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 8 No. 1 - 1986

Polio surveillance in the Americas: first 8 weeks of 1986

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

EPI Technical Advisory Group holds second meeting

Health Topics: technical guidelines, polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Meeting Reports

Global Advisory Group conclusions and recommendations

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccine safety, technical guidelines, immunization partnerships, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 8 No. 2 - 1986

Polio in the Americas: first 17 weeks, 1986

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Poliomyelitis: United States, 1975-1984

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Measles: United States, first 26 weeks, 1985

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Choice of syringes for the EPI

Health Topics: syringes, vaccine safety

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 8 No. 3 - 1986

Polio in the Americas, first semester 1986

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Latin American EPI managers meet in Washington, D.C.

Health Topics: program management, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Polio eradication activities in Brazil

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Country Experience

Polio incidence rises in Brazil's Northeast

Health Topics: polio, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Rotary supports national vaccination days

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, vaccination campaigns, national immunization days (NIDs), polio, diarrhea, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 8 No. 4 - 1986

Polio update: weeks 1-34

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

EPI acceleration

Health Topics: program management, polio, coverage, measles, neonatal tetanus, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Updates

Polio in Brazil's Northeast - Study suggests low vaccine efficacy

Health Topics: polio, polio vaccine, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Why is there measles in Panama?

Health Topics: measles, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Cold chain refrigerator repair course for Caribbean

Health Topics: cold chain, training

Category: Announcements

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Third TAG meeting to take place in Brasilia

Health Topics: polio, technical guidelines, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Announcements

Laboratory course on polio diagnosis scheduled for September in Rio de Janeiro

Health Topics: polio, laboratory, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 8 No. 5 - 1986

Polio in the Americas: first 40 weeks

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Conclusions of third EPI Technical Advisory Group meeting

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, technical guidelines, program management, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory

Category: Meeting Reports

Review of 1985 polio cases in the United States of America

Health Topics: polio, polio vaccine, epidemiological surveillance, technical guidelines, ESAVI

Category: Country Experience

The epidemiology of non-vaccination

Health Topics: missed vaccination opportunities, communication

Category: Updates

EPI recommends against routine use of antipyretics in immunization programs

Health Topics: technical guidelines, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Announcements

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

World Health Day 1987 will focus on immunization

Health Topics: world health organization (WHO)

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 8 No. 6 - 1986

Polio in the Americas: weeks 1-53, 1986

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Efficacy of infant BCG immunization

Health Topics: BCG, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Updates

Nosocomial measles

Health Topics: measles, outbreaks

Category: Updates

Sudden infant death and DTP/IPV immunization

Health Topics: polio vaccine, vaccine safety, ESAVI, DTP vaccine

Category: Updates

Cold chain technician's course held in Puerto Rico

Health Topics: cold chain, training

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 9 No. 1 - 1987

Polio in the Americas: first 12 weeks, 1986 and 1987

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Imported paralytic poliomyelitis - United States, 1986

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Belize improves immunization coverage

Health Topics: [coverage] surveys, coverage

Category: Country Experience

Mexico to stage second polio immunization campaign

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, immunization partnerships, polio vaccine

Category: Country Experience

Revolving Fund sets vaccine prices, 1987

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices

Category: Announcements

National plans for EPI and polio addressed by ICC

Health Topics: inter-agency coordinating committee, polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, program financing and sustainability, immunization partnerships

Category: Meeting Reports

Joint WHO/UNICEF statement on immunization and AIDS

Health Topics: HIV/AIDS, vaccine safety, syringes, technical guidelines, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Declarations

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 9 No. 2 - 1987

Current status of poliomyelitis in the Americas

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Program communication

Health Topics: communication, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Fourth meeting of the EPI Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on eradication of poliomyelitis in the Americas

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, technical guidelines, national immunization days (NIDs), laboratory, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Routine skin preparation before injection: an unnecessary procedure

Health Topics: injection safety, vaccine safety, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 9 No. 3 - 1987

Current status of poliomyelitis in the Americas - Weeks 1-29, 1987

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Steam sterilization in high altitudes

Health Topics: vaccine safety, injection safety, syringes, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Collection, storage and shipping of specimens for poliovirus/enterovirus studies

Health Topics: polio, laboratory, epidemiological surveillance, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Eleven plans of action approved

Health Topics: program management, program financing and sustainability, polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Announcements

Outbreak of poliomyelitis in Ecuador

Health Topics: polio, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

National vaccination campaigns carried out and planned for 1987

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 9 No. 4 - 1987

Polio in the Americas: weeks 1-32 1986 and 1987

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

First meeting of Southern Cone nations on polio eradication

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination, disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

Sterilization alert

Health Topics: vaccine safety, injection safety, syringes, hepatitis B, HIV/AIDS, ESAVI

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI sterilization policies, region of the Americas

Health Topics: vaccine safety, injection safety, syringes

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 9 No. 5 - 1987

Polio situation in the Americas: weeks 1-40, 1987

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Active search for polio cases in Mexico

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Vaccination coverage rates for 1986

Health Topics: coverage, BCG, DTP vaccine, polio vaccine, measles vaccine

Category: Updates

Prospects for new pertussis vaccine encouraging

Health Topics: pertussis (whooping cough), vaccine production, DTP vaccine

Category: Updates

Expanded Program on Immunization and Nutrition. Joint WHO/UNICEF statement on vitamin A for measles

Health Topics: pertussis (whooping cough), vaccine production, DTP vaccine

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 9 No. 6 - 1987

Review of poliomyelitis in the Americas

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, national immunization days (NIDs)

Category: Updates

National EPI plans of action: preliminary financial analysis

Health Topics: program management, program financing and sustainability, polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, inter-agency coordinating committee

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 1 - 1988

Polio in the Americas: first eight weeks, 1987 and 1988

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Fifth meeting of the EPI Technical Advisory Group: recommendations

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, polio vaccine, laboratory, missed vaccination opportunities, technical advisory group (TAG), measles vaccine

Category: Meeting Reports

Tetanus control

Health Topics: tetanus, neonatal tetanus, disease elimination/disease eradication, technical guidelines, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

Second meeting of Southern Cone nations on polio erradication

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Meeting Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Monitoring of safety and efficacy of EPI vaccines in individuals with HIV infection or clinical AIDS

Health Topics: HIV/AIDS, vaccine safety, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 2 - 1988

Polio in the Americas, weeks 1 to 17, 1988

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Epidemiology of non-vaccination: missed opportunities study in Nicaragua

Health Topics: missed vaccination opportunities, polio vaccine, measles vaccine, BCG, DTP vaccine

Category: Country Experience

Lameness survey amoung school-aged children in Costa Rica

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Country Experience

Central American countries meet to review polio eradication efforts in the region

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, national immunization days (NIDs), vaccination campaigns, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

St. Vincent issues postage stamps on child care

Health Topics: communication, legislation

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 3 - 1988

Polio in the Americas, weeks 1-26, 1988

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Laboratory update

Health Topics: laboratory, epidemiological surveillance, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Suggested protocol for surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis in children under 15 years of age

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, epidemiological surveillance, technical guidelines, technical advisory group (TAG), Guillain-Barré syndrome

Category: Updates

Vaccination coverage in 1987

Health Topics: coverage, BCG vaccine, polio vaccine, measles vaccine

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, measles, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Polio eradication field guide available for distribution

Health Topics: polio, publications, technical guidelines

Category: Announcements

Global eradication of poliomyelitis by the year 2000

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Declarations

EPI Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 4 - 1988

Polio update

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Caribbean countries hold subregional workshop on the surveillance of EPI diseases

Health Topics: training, epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Seventh resolution of the 101st meeting of the PAHO Executive Committee

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, national immunization days (NIDs), polio vaccine, immunization partnerships, epidemiological surveillance, AFP surveillance

Category: PAHO Resolutions

Representatives of the Central American nations meet for the second time to review the EPI polio eradication

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, laboratory, polio vaccine, epidemiological surveillance, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Residual paralysis survey among children under 15 years of age with Guillain-Barré syndrome (Nicaragua, 1982-1987)

Health Topics: Guillain-Barré syndrome, polio, AFP surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Schedule for 1988 National Vaccination Day

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, polio vaccine, DTP vaccine, measles vaccine

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 5 - 1988

Polio surveillance in the Americas

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Third meeting on the eradication of poliomyelitis from the countries of the Southern Cone

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, AFP surveillance, Guillain-Barré syndrome, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Measles in the United States, 1987

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Monitoring coverage at the county level: a way to strengthen local health systems

Health Topics: coverage, technical advisory group (TAG), monitoring and evaluation

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Action needed to control neonatal tetanus

Health Topics: neonatal tetanus, disease elimination/disease eradication, technical guidelines, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 6 - 1988

Polio in the Americas in 1988

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Sixth meeting of the EPI Technical Advisory Group

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, AFP surveillance, measles, laboratory, information systems, technical guidelines, technical advisory group (TAG), coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Measles vaccine

Health Topics: measles vaccine

Category: Updates

The regional laboratory network reviews diagnostic methodology

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, technical guidelines

Category: Meeting Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Missed opportunities study: Honduras

Health Topics: missed vaccination opportunities

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 11 No. 1 - 1989

Polio in the Americas in 1988

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Third Central American meeting to review the EPI and polio eradication

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, missed vaccination opportunities, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

EPI vaccination coverages in children under one year of age. Latin America, 1988 (provisional data)

Health Topics: polio vaccine, measles vaccine, DTP vaccine, coverage, BCG

Category: Data Summaries

Operation mop-up

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, immunization partnerships, coverage

Category: Announcements

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Global program on AIDS and Expanded Program on Immunization: joint WHO/UNICEF statement on early immunization for HIV-infected children

Health Topics: vaccine safety, world health organization (WHO), HIV/AIDS

Category: Declarations

EPI Newsletter Vol. 11 No. 2 - 1989

Pediatric neurologists and the eradication of poliomyelitis

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, AFP surveillance, Guillain-Barré syndrome, technical guidelines

Category: Meeting Reports

Wild poliovirus isolation in the Americas, 1989

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Measles elimination in Canada

Health Topics: measles, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Country Experience

Acute flaccid paralysis in Uruguay

Health Topics: polio, AFP surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Rotary International's support in the Americas

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Updates

In memoriam: Dr. Robert J. Wilson (1915-1989)

Health Topics: pertussis (whooping cough), disease elimination/disease eradication, DTP vaccine

Category: In Memoriam

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

National Vaccination Day planned for 1989

Health Topics: national immunization days (NIDs), vaccination campaigns

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 11 No. 3 - 1989

Polio surveillance indicators

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Polio in Europe

Health Topics: polio ,epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Mop-up operation

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, diarrhea, national immunization days (NIDs), polio vaccine

Category: Updates

Coverage by county: an update

Health Topics: coverage, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Updates

Polio in the Southern Cone

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, technical guidelines, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Solar powered refrigerator saves Jamaican vaccines

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 11 No. 4 - 1989

Poliomyelitis in the Americas, weeks 1-32, 1989

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Seventh meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on EPI and polio eradication

Health Topics: polio, technical advisory group (TAG), technical guidelines, epidemiological surveillance, disease elimination/disease eradication, AFP surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

Postage stamp issued in Venezuela

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, communication

Category: Announcements

Status of the laboratory network

Health Topics: laboratory, polio, epidemiological surveillance, technical guidelines

Category: Meeting Reports

Media celebrity promotes national vaccination day in Brazil

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, national immunization days (NIDs), social mobilization, communication

Category: Announcements

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

In memoriam [Dr. Ko Keja and Dr. Stephen R. Preblub]

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: In Memoriam

EPI Newsletter Vol. 11 No. 5 - 1989

US$100 reward [for poliomyelitis case]

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, social mobilization, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Announcements

Poliomyelitis in the Americas, 1989

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, AFP surveilance

Category: Updates

EPI reviewed in Central America

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, technical guidelines, monitoring and evaluation, coverage, AFP surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

Cold chain survey Peru

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Country Experience

PAHO Directing Council approves EPI resolution

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, immunization partnerships, national immunization days (NIDs), polio vaccine, measles, measles vaccine, neonatal tetanus

Category: PAHO Directing Council

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 11 No. 6 - 1989

Poliovirus surveillance in the Americas

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Caribbean EPI meeting

Health Topics: measles, polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Meeting Reports

Southern Cone: free of polio?

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Updates

Andean countries review EPI

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, inter-agency coordinating committee, missed vaccination opportunities, vaccination campaigns, neonatal tetanus

Category: Meeting Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 12 No. 1 - 1990

Poliomyelitis in the Americas, 1989

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Hepatitis B vaccine - Attacking a pandemic

Health Topics: hepatitis B, hepatitis B vaccine, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

First Andean vaccination day

Health Topics: national immunization days (NIDs), polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Announcements

Viral Hepatitis B vaccine standards and stability

Health Topics: technical guidelines, hepatitis B, hepatitis B vaccine

Category: Updates

Sixth international symposium on pertussis

Health Topics: pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Announcements

EPI in Bahamas: role of private practitioners

Health Topics: [immunization] schedules, coverage, immunization partnerships

Category: Country Experience

Neonatal tetanus in Venezuela, 1986-1989

Health Topics: neonatal tetanus

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Vaccination coverage in the Americas, 1989

Health Topics: polio vaccine, coverage, BCG, DTP vaccine, measles vaccine,

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 12 No. 2 - 1990

New polio case classification in effect

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, technical advisory group (TAG), technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Rapid neonatal tetanus survey tested in Haiti

Health Topics: neonatal tetanus

Category: Country Experience

Eighth TAG meeting held in Mexico City

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, neonatal tetanus, measles, technical advisory group (TAG), technical guidelines, measles vaccine

Category: Meeting Reports

Reference laboratories meet to review progress

Health Topics: polio, laboratory

Category: Meeting Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI vaccination coverage in the Americas, 1988 and 1989

Health Topics: coverage, BCG, DTP vaccine, measles vaccine

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 12 No. 3 - 1990

Poliomyelitis in the Americas - January to June, 1990

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

El Salvador responds to missed vaccination opportunities

Health Topics: missed vaccination opportunities

Category: Country Experience

Measles elimination and surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis in the English-speaking Caribbean and Suriname

Health Topics: polio, measles, disease elimination/disease eradication, technical guidelines, publications, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Study of missed vaccination opportunities in Colombia

Health Topics: missed vaccination opportunities

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

First polio reward presented in Brazil

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, social mobilization

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 12 No. 4 - 1990

Update: Progress toward eradicating poliomyelitis from the Americas

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, disease elimination/disease eradication, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Neonatal tetanus control - Defining high risk areas: the experience in the Americas

Health Topics: neonatal tetanus, disease elimination/disease eradication, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

First meeting of the International Certification Commission of poliomyelitis in the Americas

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Milestones

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 12 No. 5 - 1990

Surveillance of wild poliomyelitis in the Americas

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory

Category: Updates

Social mobilization in the Caribbean

Health Topics: social mobilization, communication, training

Category: Meeting Reports

Missed opportunities for vaccination in Guatemala

Health Topics: missed vaccination opportunities

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI coverage in Guyana

Health Topics: coverage, [coverage] surveys

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 12 No. 6 - 1990

Wild poliovirus surveillance

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Progress in Central America

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, neonatal tetanus, measles, coverage, AFP surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

Progress in the Southern Cone

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, neonatal tetanus, missed vaccination opportunities, coverage, AFP surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

Measles elimination in the Caribbean

Health Topics: measles, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 13 No. 1 - 1991

Wild poliovirus surveillance

Health Topics: polio, epidemiological surveillance, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

EPI Global Advisory Group report

Health Topics: program management, neonatal tetanus, vaccine-preventable diseases, epidemiological surveillance, measles, yellow fever vaccine, BCG

Category: Meeting Reports

Provisional vaccination coverage in the Americas, 1989 and 1990

Health Topics: coverage, BCG, polio vaccine, measles vaccine

Category: Data Summaries

Mexico: quality control of stool specimens

Health Topics: polio, laboratory, AFP surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Cholera in the Americas

Health Topics: other diseases

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 13 No. 2 - 1991

Poliomyelitis eradication: surveillance indicators

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, national immunization days (NIDs), polio vaccine, coverage, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Technical Advisory Group meets in Guatemala

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, laboratory, neonatal tetanus, measles, immunization partnerships, missed vaccination opportunities, tetanus, AFP surveillance hepatitis B

Category: Meeting Reports

Neonatal tetanus mortality

Health Topics: neonatal tetanus, epidemiological surveillance, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Country Experience

Vaccination coverage in the Americas, 1989 and 1990

Health Topics: coverage, BCG, DTP vaccine, polio vaccine, measles vaccine

Category: Data Summaries

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Laboratoy Network

Health Topics: laboratory, polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

EPI Newsletter Vol. 13 No. 3 - 1991

The final stages of polio eradication: Colombia faces the challenge

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, other diseases

Category: Country Experience

Make measles history

Health Topics: measles, disease elimination/disease eradication, immunization partnerships, vaccination campaigns

Category: Updates

Missed opportunities for vaccination in the Americas: diagnosis and interventions, 1988-1990

Health Topics: missed vaccination opportunities, program management

Category: Updates

Vaccine potency testing

Health Topics: vaccine quality control, BCG, DTP vaccine, DT/Td vaccine, polio vaccine, measles vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, neonatal tetanus, tetanus, measles, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Criteria for the differential diagnosis of poliomyelitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, transverse myelitis and traumatic neuritis

Health Topics: polio, other diseases, AFP surveillance, Guillain-Barré syndrome surveillance

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 13 No. 4 - 1991

Wild poliovirus surveillance

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

BCG immunization in the Americas, 1990

Health Topics: BCG, coverage

Category: Updates

Progress achieved in measles elimination campaign

Health Topics: measles, disease elimination/disease eradication, vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, coverage

Category: Updates

Neonatal tetanus control in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

Health Topics: neonatal tetanus, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, DT/Td vaccine

Category: Country Experience

"Asunción Group" meets in Chile

Health Topics: program management, polio, disease elimination, disease eradication, measles, neonatal tetanus, missed vaccination opportunities, laboratory, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 13 No. 5 - 1991

Update on mop-up operations in Colombia

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination, disease eradication, vaccination campaigns, polio vaccine, inter-agency coordinating committee

Category: Country Experience

Measles surveillance [in the Caribbean]

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Experts call for the inclusion of the Hepatitis B vaccine in the EPI

Health Topics: hepatitis B, hepatitis B vaccine

Category: Declarations

Progress in Central America and the Andean Region

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination, disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, neonatal tetanus, measles, program management, pertussis (whooping cough), immunization partnerships, ESAVI

Category: Meeting Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

35th Directing Council approves

Health Topics: vaccine quality control, epidemiological surveillance, national immunization days (NIDs), vaccination campaigns, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, program financing and sustainability, coverage

Category: PAHO Directing Council

EPI Newsletter Vol. 13 No. 6 - 1991

Surveillance of compatible polio cases

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Measles elimination in Central America

Health Topics: measles, disease elimination/disease eradication, immunization partnerships

Category: Meeting Reports

Workshop on molecular methods for characterization of poliovirus

Health Topics: polio, laboratory, training

Category: Updates

Accelerated immunization initiative launched

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, neonatal tetanus, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Announcements

Eighth meeting of Caribbean EPI managers

Health Topics: measles, polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, information systems, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, laboratory, social mobilization, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Global Advisory Group addresses rubella control

Health Topics: rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, technical guidelines, world health organization (WHO), MMR/MR vaccines

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 14 No. 1 - 1992

Surveillance and verification of wild poliovirus eradication

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination, disease eradication, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

A call for a pertussis surveillance system

Health Topics: DTP vaccine, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Weekly negative reporting of acute flaccid paralyses: Venezuela, 1991

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, polio

Category: Updates

The use of rectal tubes for stool collection

Health Topics: laboratory, polio, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Jamaican measles surveillance system

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, research

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Response to poliomyelitis in Peru

Health Topics: polio, vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Vitamin A deficiency elimination within the decade?

Health Topics: vitamin A

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 14 No. 2 - 1992

Further consideration of polio case definitions

Health Topics: polio, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Tenth Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting on vaccine-preventable diseases

Health Topics: technical guidelines, disease elimination/disease eradication, cold chain, research, coverage, measles, neonatal tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), ESAVI

Category: Meeting Reports

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 14 No. 3 - 1992

Wild poliovirus eradication. Peru: the final challenge

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, polio, coverage, AFP surveillance

Category: Country Experience

The fight against measles continues: Brazil and Chile carry out mass vaccination campaigns

Health Topics: measles, vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, measles vaccine, social mobilization, community mobilization

Category: Country Experience

Neonatal tetanus elimination in the Americas: Progress in surveillance

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, neonatal tetanus, research

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Laboratoy network meeting report

Health Topics: laboratory, AFP surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

EPI Newsletter Vol. 14 No. 4 - 1992

One year without polio in the Americas!

Health Topics: polio, community mobilization, AFP surveillance

Category: Announcements

Acceleration of the EPI in Central America

Health Topics: measles, disease elimination/disease eradication, neonatal tetanus, epidemiological surveillance, coverage, AFP surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

Handling opened vaccine vials

Health Topics: vaccine safety

Category: Job Aids

Posters used in the campaigns against measles in Chile and Brazil

Health Topics: communication, vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

First ladies in support of infancy

Health Topics: first ladies and other political figures

Category: Announcements

Differential diagnosis of cases of acute flaccid paralysis

Health Topics: Guillain-Barré syndrome, AFP surveillance

Category: Announcements

Brazil donates vaccines for the measles campaign in Central America

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, measles vaccine

Category: Announcements

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, technical advisory group (TAG), neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

New external collaboration for the 1992 EPI Plan of Action

Health Topics: cold chain, immunization partnerships

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 14 No. 5 - 1992

The following statement was issued by Dr. Carlyle Guerra de Macedo, Director of the Pan American Health Organization, in Washington D.C. on September 11,1992

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, polio, immunization partnerships

Category: Declarations

PAHO Directing Council review EPI

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, immunization partnerships, measles, social mobilization, hepatitis B

Category: PAHO Resolutions

Wild poliovirus surveillance in the Americas

Health Topics: polio, laboratory, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance in the Andean countries

Health Topics: polio, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Estimated cost of measles in Guadeloupe based on hospital morbidity

Health Topics: measles, program financing and sustainability, research

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Whooping cough: A Huichol myth

Health Topics: pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Declarations

EPI Newsletter Vol. 14 No. 6 - 1992

Progress in the worldwide polio eradication effort

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Southern Cone countries examine immunization programs

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, neonatal tetanus, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Improving the Cold Chain

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Risk for vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis

Health Topics: polio vaccine, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

DTP vaccine injection

Health Topics: pentavalent (DTP-Hib-Hepb) vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine, measles vaccine

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

First ladies support elimination of neonatal tetanus

Health Topics: neonatal tetanus, first ladies and other political figures

Category: Meeting Reports

News Briefs

Health Topics: AFP surveillance

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 15 No. 1 - 1993

Eighteen months - no polio!

Health Topics: polio, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

The use of BCG vaccine

Health Topics: vaccine quality control, epidemiological surveillance, BCG vaccine

Category: Updates

Neonatal tetanus in Venezuela, 1970-1991

Health Topics: neonatal tetanus, research

Category: Updates

Global EPI progress reviewed

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, vaccination campaigns, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Preparing a cold box for vaccine transport

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Reported cases of EPI diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Poliomyelitis in The Netherlands: Update

Health Topics: outbreaks

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 15 No. 2 - 1993

Remarks of Dr. Carlyle Guerra de Macedo at the meeting of the WHO Executive Board

Health Topics: polio, social mobilization, community mobilization, AFP surveillance, laboratory

Category: Announcements

Poliomyelitis surveillance

Health Topics: polio, AFP surveillance, laboratory

Category: Updates

Vaccine adverse events: surveillance in Brazil

Health Topics: technical guidelines, ESAVI

Category: Country Experience

Vaccine transport in cold boxes and thermoses - Did you know?

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

In memoriam: Dr. Albert Sabin

Health Topics: polio vaccine

Category: In Memoriam

EPI Newsletter Vol. 15 No. 3 - 1993

Wild poliovirus imported into the Americas

Health Topics: polio, laboratory, AFP surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Cartagena, Colombia: Active search finds no polio

Health Topics: polio, community mobilization, active search, AFP surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Classifying acute flaccid paralysis

Health Topics: AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

National plans of action and EPI sustainability

Health Topics: immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

The "cold life" of cold boxes and thermoses

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 15 No. 4 - 1993

No polio in the Americas for two years

Health Topics: polio, coverage, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Importations: Lessons learned from Dutch outbreak

Health Topics: polio, importations, outbreaks

Category: Updates

U.S. shifts immunization policy

Health Topics: coverage, first ladies and other political figures

Category: Meeting Reports

Measles elimination in Central America

Health Topics: measles, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Missed Opportunities: Closing the gap in Peru

Health Topics: tetanus toxoid, coverage

Category: Country Experience

Open vaccine vials: Use in Latin America

Health Topics: cold chain, vaccine safety, vaccine quality control

Category: Updates

English-speaking Caribbean rubella policy

Health Topics: rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, rubella vaccine

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio,measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Organizing a refrigerator - Remember!

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 15 No. 5 - 1993

Directing Council reviews EPI

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, coverage, polio, program financing and sustainability

Category: Meeting Reports

Central America: Defeating measles

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, immunization partnerships, laboratory, epidemiological surveillance, coverage

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Measles in America

Health Topics: measles, technical guidelines, coverage

Category: Updates

The future of DTP vaccine

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, SIREVA, DTP vaccine

Category: Meeting Reports

Poliomyelitis: Toward certification

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, indicators

Category: Updates

World Bank endorses boosting EPI

Health Topics: vaccines, program financing and sustainability, inversion

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Monitoring a refrigerator's temperature

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 15 No. 6 - 1993

Region Acts to check importations

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, polio vaccine, importation, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Panama: Whooping cough outbreak

Health Topics: outbreaks, coverage, epidemiological surveillance, program management

Category: Updates

EPI reviews

Health Topics: program management, AFP surveillance, polio, measles, coverage, neonatal tetanus

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Handling damaged vaccine

Health Topics: cold chain, potency testing

Category: Updates

China holds national immunization days

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, polio, polio vaccine, immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Global Advisory Group: Immunization needs strengthening

Health Topics: coverage, measles, neonatal tetanus, hepatitis B, polio, vaccine auto efficiency

Category: Meeting Reports

EPI Newsletter Vol. 16 No. 1 - 1994

Certification one step closer

Health Topics: polio, vaccination campaigns, certification commissions, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

AFP surveillance indicators meeting certification criteria, Latin America, by country, 1993

Health Topics: indicators, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Region acts to check importations: update

Health Topics: polio, program management, community mobilization, AFP surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Andean ministers resolve to eliminate measles

Health Topics: measles, immunization partnerships

Category: Meeting Reports

Colombia: Measles elimination month

Health Topics: measles, vaccination campaigns, social mobilization, immunization partnerships, community mobilization, coverage

Category: Country Experience

Colombian pediatricians join in

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Mexico: Field manual on measles

Health Topics: publications

Category: Updates

Rash and fever case classification for measles elimination

Health Topics: schedules

Category: Updates

Absence of reported measles -- United States, November 1993

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance, coverage [of immunization]

Category: Updates

Measles campaign improves anti-rubella coverage

Health Topics: rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, program management, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

How to clean the chimney of a kerosene refrigerator

Health Topics: cold chain, general guidelines

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

In memoriam - Dr. Alexander Langmuir

Health Topics: EIS, CDC, epidemiological surveillance

Category: In Memoriam

EPI Newsletter Vol. 16 No. 2 - 1994

Polio: National commissions formed

Health Topics: polio, laboratory, program management, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Meeting the certification criteria

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Measles in Canada in 1993 - The lowest ever reported

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, immunization partnerships, coverage, measles vaccine, [coverage] surveys

Category: Updates

Vaccines against meningococcal meningitis: current status

Health Topics: vaccine production, vaccine quality control, SIREVA

Category: Updates

Injections: Improper infection-control practices

Health Topics: syringe quality control, vaccine safety

Category: Updates

Childhood immunization and HIV infection

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, HIV/AIDS

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

PAHO establishes annual immunization award

Health Topics: immunization partnerships

Category: Awards

EPI Newsletter Vol. 16 No. 3 - 1994

Polio eradication to be reviewed in August

Health Topics: information systems, AFP surveillance, laboratory, technical committee, information systems (GIS,MESS/PESS,JRF)

Category: Updates

Meeting the certification criteria

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Global measles strategy picks up pace

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, program financing and sustainability, vaccine quality control, coverage, vitamin A

Category: Meeting Reports

Ozone laws entail cold chain changes

Health Topics: cold chain, program management

Category: Updates

Facts about pertussis and DTP vaccine

Health Topics: pertussis (whooping cough), DTP vaccine

Category: Updates

Immunization schedules in PAHO member countries

Health Topics: [immunization] schedules

Category: Data Summaries

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Chile averts measles outbreak

Health Topics: outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, laboratory, active [case] search

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 16 No. 4 - 1994

The Americas conquer polio! Certification

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, AFP surveillance

Category: Announcements

The TAG and ICCPE meet together to review the status of polio eradication and the EPI

Health Topics: polio, disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Measles outbreak - Huehuetenango, Guatemala

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, active [case] search, coverage

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 16 No. 5 - 1994

Measles elimination by the year 2000!

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance, outbreaks, coverage

Category: Announcements

Measles update - United States, first 26 weeks, 1994

Health Topics: case classification, outbreaks, laboratory, importation

Category: Country Experience

Poliomyelitis surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Diphtheria epidemic in Ecuador

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, communication, vaccination campaigns, technical guidelines

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 16 No. 6 - 1994

Summary of Caribbean managers meeting

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, [immunization] coverage, rubella, polio, HIV/AIDS, social mobilization, CAREC (Caribbean epidemiology center)

Category: Meeting Reports

Measles in Canada, 1994 (as of September 14)

Health Topics: measles, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

United Kingdom launches national measles campaign

Health Topics: measles, vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Poliomyelitis surveillance

Health Topics: polio, AFP surveillance, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Data Summaries

Weekly measles bulletin is launched

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Announcements

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 17 No. 1 - 1995

International importations of measles from the Americas into the United States, 1990-1994

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, importation

Category: Country Experience

The national measles vaccination campaign in Ecuador

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, immunization partnerships, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Children's vaccine initiative

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, new vaccines

Category: Updates

Update EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: revolving fund, program financing and sustainability, program management

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

James P. Grant: In memoriam

Health Topics: immunization partnerships

Category: In Memoriam

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 17 No. 2 - 1995

Measles elimination: The Americas receive boost during World Health Day 1995

Health Topics: first ladies and other political figures, disease elimination/disease eradication, immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

Polio control activities in Canada since the last importation

Health Topics: outbreaks, laboratory, importations, training, AFP surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Vaccination coverage of 2-year-old children - United States, January-March, 1994

Health Topics: missed vaccination opportunities, coverage

Category: Country Experience

The cold chain: curbing chlorofluorocarbons

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 17 No. 3 - 1995

Southern Cone: Measles elimination

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, defining cases, coverage, vaccination campaigns, AFP surveillance, neonatal tetanus

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Measles in Canada, 1994-1995 (as of February 14)

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Update: Measles elimination in England

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, communication, laboratory, costs

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Global Commission for the certification of polio eradication

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, laboratory, AFP surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

EPI Newsletter Vol. 17 No. 4 - 1995

PAHO measles laboratory network workshop

Health Topics: laboratory, immunization partnerships, IgM

Category: Meeting Reports

Polio surveillance: Four years since last case!

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Lack of evidence for wild poliovirus circulation - United States, 1993

Health Topics: laboratory, active [case] search, AFP surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Safety of injections: Recommended policy

Health Topics: vaccine safety, syringe quality control, program financing and sustainability

Category: Updates

Acellular pertussis vaccine

Health Topics: pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Dr. Jonas Salk: in memoriam

Health Topics: polio vaccine

Category: In Memoriam

EPI Newsletter Vol. 17 No. 5 - 1995

Polio diagnosis: one or two samples?

Health Topics: laboratory, AFP surveillance

Category: Updates

Progress of EPI programs reviewed in Central America and Andean Regions

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, neonatal tetanus, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis b, indicators, coverage

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Reviewed measles case classifications

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, case definitions

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Plan to eliminate measles approved

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability, coverage

Category: PAHO Resolutions

EPI Newsletter Vol. 17 No. 6 - 1995

First ladies of the Americas reaffirm commitment to measles elimination

Health Topics: measles, disease elimination/disease eradication, first ladies and other political figures, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Meeting Reports

WHO reiterates support of oral polio vaccine

Health Topics: polio vaccine

Category: Declarations

Measles at an all time low in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, coverage

Category: Updates

Ensuring the production of vaccines in the region

Health Topics: vaccine production, immunization partnerships, SIREVA

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: incidence, indicators

Category: Updates

Diphtheria epidemic in Eastern Europe

Health Topics: outbreaks, immunization partnerships, costs, case incidence

Category: Country Experience

Nicaragua: strategies to reduce missed opportunities to vaccinate

Health Topics: missed vaccination opportunities, program management

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Dr. Saul Krugman: In memoriam

Health Topics: measles vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine, measles

Category: In Memoriam

EPI Newsletter Vol. 18 No. 1 - 1996

Four years without measles!

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, disease elimination/disease eradication, social mobilization, missed vaccination opportunities, coverage

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Update: measles in Canada, 1995

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Joint statement on polio eradication

Health Topics: polio vaccine, disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Declarations

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: laboratory, indicators

Category: Updates

Vaccine quality: the key to effective immunization

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, national regulatory authority, vaccine quality control, SIREVA

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

1996: year of the vaccine

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 18 No. 2 - 1996

Spain supports measles elimination

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, epidemiological surveillance, social mobilization, laboratory

Category: Declarations

Decrease in measles cases in Mexico

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

High-risk areas of neonatal tetanus

Health Topics: neonatal tetanus, publications, epidemiological surveillance, information systems

Category: Updates

Measles case classifications

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, case definition

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators, coverage

Category: Updates

Cost-benefits of disease eradication

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability, immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Twenty-fifth anniversary of smallpox eradication in the Americas

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, epidemiological surveillance, immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 18 No. 3 - 1996

USA supports measles elimination

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, vaccination campaigns, first ladies and other political figures

Category: Announcements

Measles in the United States, 1995

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, outbreaks, laboratory, importation

Category: Country Experience

Measles surveillance: El Salvador

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, information systems, laboratory, training

Category: Country Experience

Polio eradication in our grasp. Target for 2000: a world without polio

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, vaccination campaigns, coverage, AFP surveillance, case incidence, indicators

Category: Updates

Canada

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, coverage

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine development

Health Topics: vaccine production, laboratory

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 18 No. 4 - 1996

Americas: five years free of polio!

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, social mobilization

Category: Announcements

Global measles eradication: target 2010?

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, vaccination campaigns, immunization partnerships, laboratory, epidemiological surveillance, importation

Category: Meeting Reports

Cost-effectiveness of measles immunization in urban areas

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability, measles vaccine

Category: Updates

New importation of wild poliovirus into Canada

Health Topics: importation, AFP surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Safety of tetanus toxoid in pregnant women

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, tetanus toxoid, vaccine coverage, missed vaccination opportunities

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Missed opportunities to vaccinate in Peru

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage, women of childbearing age (WCBA), survey, communication, training

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 18 No. 5 - 1996

Andean region: measles on the way out!

Health Topics: measles, vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, neonatal tetanus, polio, missed vaccination opportunities, new vaccine, vaccine quality control, indicators, coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Immunization program sustainability

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability

Category: Updates

Measles laboratory workshop in central america

Health Topics: measles, laboratory

Category: Meeting Reports

Haemophilus influenza surveillance in Argentina

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) vaccine

Category: Country Experience

Polio vaccination in the United States

Health Topics: [immunization] schedule, coverage

Category: Country Experience

Update [Montserrat]

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns

Category: Announcements

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: polio, importation, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

The vaccine challenge

Health Topics: vaccine production, new vaccines, costs

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 18 No. 6 - 1996

Record five years measles-free!

Health Topics: measles/rubella elimination, case incidence, coverage, vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, polio, program financing and sustainability

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Measles surveillance: Nicaragua

Health Topics: measles/rubella surveillance, active [case] search, indicators, program management

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Impact of Uruguay's introduction of the Haemophilus Influenza type b (Hib) vaccine

Health Topics: haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) vaccine, [immunization] schedules, incidence

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Neonatal tetanus countdown

Health Topics: case incidence, women of childbearing age (WCBA), tetanus toxoid, epidemiological surveillance, DTP vaccine

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 19 No. 1 - 1997

Measles in Brazil: indigenous or imported?

Health Topics: measles/rubella surveillance, laboratory, coverage, vaccination campaigns, importation

Category: Country Experience

Laboratory diagnosis of viral hepatitis

Health Topics: laboratory, hepatitis B

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators, communication

Category: Updates

Vaccination during pregnancy

Health Topics: DT/Td vaccine

Category: Updates

Regional update

Health Topics: first ladies and other political figures, measles/rubella elimination

Category: Declarations

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

In memoriam: Dr. Sandra Silveira

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: In Memoriam

EPI Newsletter Vol. 19 No. 2 - 1997

Measles in the United States, 1996

Health Topics: [case] incidence, importation

Category: Country Experience

Update: recent measles outbreaks in the Americas

Health Topics: outbreaks, laboratory, vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Viral hepatitis

Health Topics: laboratory, hepatitis B

Category: Updates

Argentina introduces Hib and MMR vaccines

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, new vaccines

Category: Country Experience

Measles vaccination and Guillain-Barré syndrome

Health Topics: Guillain-Barré syndrome, measles vaccine, survey

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators, [vaccination coverage]

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Haemophilus influenzae type b in Chile

Health Topics: haemophilus influenzae type b (hib), epidemiological surveillance, incidence

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 19 No. 3 - 1997

Update: São Paulo measles outbreaks

Health Topics: outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, laboratory, incidence, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Updates

Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in the USA

Health Topics: measles/rubella elimination, epidemiological surveillance, incidence

Category: Country Experience

Viral hepatitis

Health Topics: laboratory

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Natural gas company supports measles elimination

Health Topics: immunization partnerships

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Surveillance for bacterial meningitis

Health Topics: haemophilus influenzae type b (hib), haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) vaccine, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 19 No. 4 - 1997

Twenty years of EPI!

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage, disease elimination/disease eradication, vaccination campaigns, immunization partnerships, measles/rubella elimination

Category: Updates

New partners in immunization

Health Topics: community mobilization, social mobilization, first ladies and other political figures, immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

Western hemisphere leading the way in disease eradication

Health Topics: polio, measles, neonatal tetanus, [vaccination] coverage, incidence

Category: Updates

EPI Revolving Fund: quality vaccines at low cost

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices, vaccine quality control

Category: Updates

Impact of disease eradication programs

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Updates

Introducing new vaccines

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, hepatitis B vaccine, haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) vaccine, yellow fever vaccine, vaccine production

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 19 No. 5 - 1997

SVI Technical Advisory Group meets

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, program management, [vaccination] coverage, measles/rubella elimination

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Third global roundtable on measles control and elimination

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

Ecuador approves vaccine law

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability, political commitment

Category: Updates

Safe destruction of vaccine vials

Health Topics: vaccine safety

Category: Updates

Measles update

Health Topics: measles, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

First ladies united against measles

Health Topics: first ladies and other political figures, immunization partnerships, communication

Category: Meeting Reports

EPI Newsletter Vol. 19 No. 6 - 1997

Measles in the Americas, 1997

Health Topics: laboratory, vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, incidence

Category: Updates

USAID grant for Hib surveillance

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability

Category: Updates

Caribbean meeting stresses surveillance

Health Topics: measles/rubella elimination, polio, measles, congenital rubella syndrome, epidemiological surveillance, new vaccines, [immunization] coverage

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Polio surveillance: global overview

Health Topics: incidence, indicators

Category: Updates

1998 Prices for Vaccines Purchased through the EPI Revolving Fund

Health Topics: revolving fund prices

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

1997 PAHO award for immunization

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Awards

EPI Newsletter Vol. 20 No. 1 - 1998

Pertussis outbreaks in the Americas

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Importation of measles to Costa Rica

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, importation

Category: Country Experience

Measles vaccination campaigns

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Data Summaries

Update: São Paulo measles outbreak

Health Topics: outbreaks, [vaccination] coverage, incidence

Category: Country Experience

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Data Summaries

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Vaccines of quality

Health Topics: vaccine quality control, vaccine safety, national regulatory authority

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 20 No. 2 - 1998

WHO commemorates its 50th anniversary!

Health Topics: world health organization (WHO), disease elimination/disease eradication, immunization partnerships, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Updates

Paraguay and Brazil discuss joint strategies for the eradication of measles

Health Topics: outbreaks, [vaccination] coverage, epidemiological surveillance, communication, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

Districts at risk for measles in El Salvador

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage, vaccine campaigns, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Central America meeting initiates surveillance system for Hib and Streptococcus pneumoniae

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, laboratory

Category: Meeting Reports

Evaluation of Mexico's Universal Vaccine Program

Health Topics: vaccine production, immunization partnerships, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, incidence, [vaccination] coverage, training, new vaccines, ProVac

Category: Country Experience

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Vaccine quality

Health Topics: vaccine safety, vaccine quality control

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 20 No. 3 - 1998

USA interrupts measles transmission

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, measles eradication, importation

Category: Country Experience

Measles outbreak in Ñuble province, Chile

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, incidence

Category: Country Experience

Increasing the coverage of vitamin A supplementation through immunization contacts

Health Topics: other diseases, vitamin A

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Caribbean community establishes rubella elimination goal

Health Topics: rubella elimination

Category: Declarations

Update: Hib vaccination in the Americas

Health Topics: haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) vaccine, vaccination campaigns, incidence

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

The Americas play to win the fight against measles

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability, communication, [vaccination] coverage, political commitment

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 20 No. 4 - 1998

Measles update

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, outbreaks, incidence

Category: Country Experience

Public health burden of rubella and CRS

Health Topics: rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, outbreaks, rubella elimination, costs

Category: Updates

Vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b

Health Topics: haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) vaccine, vaccine quality control, [immunization] schedules

Category: Updates

Decentralization of information systems

Health Topics: information systems (GIS, MESS/PESS,JRF), laboratory, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Bolivia's mayors play active role in immunization

Health Topics: communication, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 20 No. 5 - 1998

Immunization and private sector participation

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, epidemiological surveillance, vaccine quality control, cold chain, communication, program management, [immunization] schedules, political commitment

Category: Meeting Reports

Measles update

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, vaccination campaigns, first ladies and other political figures

Category: Country Experience

No scientific justification to suspend hepatitis b immunization

Health Topics: hepatitis B vaccine, world health organization (WHO), DTP vaccine

Category: Updates

Rubella vaccine and vaccination strategies

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, epidemiological surveillance, [vaccine] coverage

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Regional notes

Health Topics: first ladies and other political figures, yellow fever, outbreaks

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Dr. Mary Lou Clements-Mann: In memoriam

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, AIDS

Category: In Memoriam

EPI Newsletter Vol. 20 No. 6 - 1998

Measles in the Americas, 1998

Health Topics: outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, incidence, measles eradication, measles vaccine

Category: Updates

Vaccine quality

Health Topics: vaccines, cold chain, vaccine quality control, investigation

Category: Updates

Follow-up measles campain in the Dominican Republic

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, immunization partnerships, syringes, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Country Experience

Maintaining the public's trust in immunization

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, communication

Category: Declarations

The global situation of polio eradication

Health Topics: polio vaccine, disease elimination/disease eradication, program financing and sustainability, incidence, political commitment

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

PAHO Revolving Fund vaccine prices for 1999

Health Topics: revolving fund, costs

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 1 - 1999

Sylvatic yellow fever outbreak in Bolivia

Health Topics: outbreaks, yellow fever, vaccination campaigns, program financing and sustainability, incidence, [immunization] schedules, research, incidence, yellow fever vaccine

Category: Country Experience

Evaluation of the Bahamas' MMR campaign

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, syringe quality control, vaccine safety, epidemiological surveillance, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Country Experience

Update: measles in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, outbreaks, importation, incidence

Category: Updates

AFP surveillance - 1994, 1997 and 1998

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Official French position on hepatitis b vaccination

Health Topics: hepatitis B vaccine, world health organization (WHO), [immunization] schedules

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 2 - 1999

Bolivia benefits from PAHO/World Bank partnership

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, outbreaks, community mobilization, vaccination campaigns, [vaccination] coverage, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

Good surveillance is key to measles eradication

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, importation, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Updates

Introduction of Hib in the Americas: lessons learned

Health Topics: haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) vaccine, communication, technical advisory group (TAG), revolving fund, vaccination campaigns, importation

Category: Updates

PAHO publishes measles eradication field guide

Health Topics: measles, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, measles vaccine

Category: Updates

Polio surveillance, 1999

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Updates

PAHO establishes division of vaccines and immunization

Health Topics: technical guidelines, vaccine production, vaccine quality control, laboratory, revolving fund, new vaccines

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 3 - 1999

CDC joins PAHO to eradicate measles

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, measles eradication, research, disease elimination/disease eradication, vaccine production, epidemiological surveillance, program financing and sustainability

Category: Updates

XIII Technical Advisory Group meeting

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, vaccination campaigns, outbreaks, political commitment, measles eradication, [vaccination] coverage

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Poliomyelitis

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage, laboratory, indicators

Category: Updates

What's new at the HVP website

Health Topics: technical advisory group (TAG), haemophilus influenzae type b (hib), immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Final push for global polio eradication

Health Topics: world health organization (WHO), immunization partnerships, polio vaccine, vaccination campaigns, costs

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 4 - 1999

Update: Measles outbreak in Bolivia

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, outbreaks, information systems, incidence

Category: Country Experience

Measles vaccination campaign in the Americas

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage, vaccination campaigns

Category: Data Summaries

Rubella outbreak in Costa Rica

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, vaccination campaigns, incidence

Category: Country Experience

Brazil's response to polio outbreak in Angola

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, polio vaccine, communication, indicators

Category: Country Experience

Ecuador holds National Immunization Day

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, vitamin A, MMR/MR vaccines, incidence

Category: Country Experience

Regional activities

Health Topics: evaluation, training

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Mexico introduces pentavalent vaccine

Health Topics: new vaccines, pentavalent (DTP-Hib-Hep b) vaccine, MMR/MR vaccines, revolving fund, vaccine production

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 5 - 1999

Bolivia: All out fight against measles

Health Topics: outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

Measles in the United States

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, epidemiological surveillance, outbreaks, [immunization] schedules, importation

Category: Country Experience

Measles in Canada

Health Topics: laboratory, vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, program management, importation, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

First ladies meet in Canada

Health Topics: first ladies and other political figures, measles eradication

Category: Meeting Reports

Ensuring quality vaccines

Health Topics: national regulatory authority, laboratory, vaccine quality control, training

Category: Updates

Panama launches a "campaign for life"

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, immunization partnerships, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

1999 PAHO award for immunization

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication

Category: Awards

EPI Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 6 - 1999

Year 2000: zero measles?

Health Topics: outbreaks, immunization partnerships, vaccination campaigns, missed vaccination opportunities, communication, vaccine safety, incidence, active [case] search, importation, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Updates

Rubella campaign in Chile

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, laboratory, epidemiological surveillance, MMR/MR vaccines, communication

Category: Country Experience

New at the immunization's website

Health Topics: evaluation program

Category: Updates

Update on global polio eradication

Health Topics: world health organization (WHO), immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, epidemiological surveillance, [vaccination] coverage, indicators

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, polio, measles, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Impact of Haemophilus influenzae vaccine in Colombia

Health Topics: laboratory, research

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 22 No. 1 - 2000

On the trail for measles in Colombia

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, active [case] search, [vaccination] coverage, survey

Category: Country Experience

Global alliance for vaccines and immunization

Health Topics: GAVI, immunization partnerships, vaccine production, research

Category: Updates

Southern Cone: progress towards measles eradication

Health Topics: measles eradication, epidemiological surveillance, rubella, yellow fever, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenzae type b (hib), incidence, [vaccination] coverage

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Progress: Government of Bolivia/PAHO/World Bank collaboration

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

Cold chain: facts to remember

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

Certification of global polio eradication

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, evaluation, committees, indicators

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

PAHO's Revolving Fund prices for 2000

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices, vaccine production

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 22 No. 2 - 2000

Measles update: Dominican Republic

Health Topics: outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, incidence, active [case] search, training

Category: Country Experience

Measles in Haiti

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, vaccination campaigns, active [case] search

Category: Country Experience

Measles and rubella surveillance integration in the Americas

Health Topics: information systems, epidemiological surveillance, case classification

Category: Updates

Paraguay supports measles eradication

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, immunization partnerships, first ladies and other political figures, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

Meetings on surveillance of bacterial meningitis and pneumonias

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, training

Category: Updates

AFP surveillance improves in the Americas

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Updates

Coverage rates: DTP-3, OPV-3, measles and BCG. Region of the Americas, 1998 and 1999

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage

Category: Data Summaries

Dr. Ciro de Quadros awarded Albert B. Sabin gold medal

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, immunizations

Category: Awards

EPI Newsletter Vol. 22 No. 3 - 2000

Measles outbreak in an isolated community of Bolivia

Health Topics: outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, communication, training, importation, active [case] search, research

Category: Country Experience

Surveillance of pneumonia and bacterial meningitis

Health Topics: laboratory, epidemiological surveillance, technical guidelines

Category: Updates

Managing immunization safety concerns

Health Topics: vaccine safety, vaccine quality control, ESAVI, communication, training, new vaccines

Category: Updates

Lessons learned: outbreak response in the Dominican Republic

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Polio surveillance

Health Topics: laboratory

Category: Updates

Measles surveillance in the Americas. Final case classification, 1999

Health Topics: case classification

Category: Data Summaries

Yellow fever in the Americas

Health Topics: yellow fever, incidence

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 22 No. 4 - 2000

Progress towards measles eradication: Canada

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, importation, [immunization] schedules

Category: Country Experience

Measles in Central Americas: tasks ahead

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage, missed vaccination opportunities, vaccination campaigns, communication, social mobilization

Category: Updates

Evaluation of the national immunization program: Costa Rica

Health Topics: program management, program financing and sustainability, political commitment, evaluation

Category: Country Experience

Surveillance of poliomyelitis

Health Topics: laboratory, indicators

Category: Updates

Immunization safety: infant deaths caused by methanol

Health Topics: ESAVI

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Hib vaccine introduction: a model for other new vaccines

Health Topics: new vaccines, epidemiological surveillance, costs

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 22 No. 5 - 2000

Update: Measles outbreak in Haiti

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, outbreaks, community mobilization, training, incidence

Category: Updates

Measles outbreak in Venezuela

Health Topics: outbreaks, case distribution

Category: Country Experience

XIV Technical Advisory Group meeting

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, outbreaks, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, laboratory, neonatal tetanus, yellow fever, research, vaccination strategies, measles eradication

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Declarations

Global measles efforts

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, world health organization (WHO), epidemiological surveillance, vitamin A, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 22 No. 6 - 2000

Outbreak of poliomyelitis in Dominican Republic and Haiti

Health Topics: outbreaks, laboratory, polio vaccine, immunization partnerships, AFP surveillance, vaccination strategies

Category: Country Experience

Progress towards global polio eradication

Health Topics: world health organization (WHO), case distribution, immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, political commitment

Category: Updates

Spain renews support for measles eradication

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, epidemiological surveillance, information systems, training, active [case] search

Category: Updates

National polio immunization campaign in the Dominican Republic

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, first ladies and other political figures, immunization partnerships, communication, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

Advances towards measles eradication in Brazil, 1999-2000

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, surveillance systems, vaccination strategies, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

Workshop on immunization at the XII Latin American Congress of Pediatrics

Health Topics: disease elimination/disease eradication, vaccine safety, vaccine quality control, new vaccines

Category: Updates

Annual summary of polio and measles indicators

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Data Summaries

PAHO's Revolving Fund vaccine prices for 2001

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices, immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 23 No. 1 - 2001

Costa Rica embarks on accelerated rubella and congenital rubella syndrome program

Health Topics: rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, MMR/MR vaccines, epidemiological surveillance, community mobilization, incidence, vaccination strategies

Category: Country Experience

March of Dimes Foundation renews support to PAHO

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, MMR/MR vaccines, rubella/SRC elimination

Category: Updates

Update: OPV-derived poliomyelitis outbreak in the Dominican Republic and Haiti

Health Topics: outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, laboratory, AFP surveillance, active [case] search

Category: Country Experience

WHO position on use of measles mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Announcements

Analysis of country performance of AFP surveillance and vaccination coverage

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Data Summaries

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

In memoriam of polio pioneers Dorothy M. Horstmann and Joseph Melnick

Health Topics: polio, rubella

Category: In Memoriam

EPI Newsletter Vol. 23 No. 2 - 2001

Haiti begins all out effort to halt measles and OPV-derived polio outbreaks

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, AFP surveillance, case distribution

Category: Country Experience

House-to-house vaccination

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Updates

Partnerships: World Bank - PAHO immunization day

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, epidemiological surveillance, AFP surveillance, cold chain, revolving fund, measles eradication

Category: Updates

Progress report: Bolivia PAHO-World Bank project

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, vaccination, new vaccines, information systems, epidemiological surveillance, revolving fund, program financing and sustainability

Category: Country Experience

Final measles surveillance data, 2000

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, case classification

Category: Data Summaries

UN agencies launch new plan to halve mortality of measles - a major childhood killer

Health Topics: vaccinations strategies, vitamin A

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 23 No. 3 - 2001

Measles importation in El Salvador

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, communication, laboratory, community mobilization, active [case] search

Category: Country Experience

Update: vaccine-derived polio outbreak in Hispaniola

Health Topics: outbreaks, AFP surveillance, vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Progress and lessons learned from Costa Rica's rubella campaign

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, communication, social mobilization, information systems, [vaccination] coverage, vaccination strategies, program management, first ladies and other political figures

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 23 No. 4 - 2001

Presidents of Honduras and Costa Rica share experiences on immunization programs

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, [vaccination] coverage, rubella/CRS elimination

Category: Declarations

Haiti's polio campaign: a success story

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, rapid coverage monitoring, AFP surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Bolivia/PAHO/World Bank partnership supports second generation EPI

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, revolving fund, [vaccination] coverage, monitoring and evaluation, training, [coverage] surveys

Category: Country Experience

Performance agreements: management by results

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage, EPI

Category: Country Experience

Rubella vaccination of women of childbearing age in the Americas

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, vaccination campaigns

Category: Updates

Immunization programs in the Americas reach out to other age groups

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine, neonatal tetanus, influenza vaccine

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Costa Rica approves vaccine law

Health Topics: legislation, political commitment

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 23 No. 5 - 2001

Haiti's ongoing efforts to halt the polio and measles outbreaks

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, rapid coverage monitoring, epidemiological surveillance, active [case] search, [vaccination] coverage

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Analysis of the performances of Argentina's National Poliomyelitis Eradication Program during 1999-2000

Health Topics: polio vaccine, indicators, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Country Experience

Measles case classification: frequent dilemmas in the field

Health Topics: laboratory, case classification, IgM

Category: Updates

Strengthening laboratory diagnosis for poliomyelitis in the Americas

Health Topics: laboratory, communication

Category: Meeting Reports

The importance of cleaning up data

Health Topics: information systems, communication, data quality, MESS/PESS

Category: Updates

Coverage rates: DTP-3, OPV-3, measles, BCG. Region of the Americas, 1999 and 2000 (revised)

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage

Category: Data Summaries

First international course on regulations for biologicals and biotechnological produce

Health Topics: laboratory, vaccine quality control, national regulatory authority

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 23 No. 6 - 2001

Improved surveillance for polio and measles in Haiti

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, training, active [case] search

Category: Updates

Partnership for immunization

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Updates

Measles case classification II

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, IgM, IgG

Category: Updates

The use of surveillance data to manage national immunization programs

Health Topics: measles eradication, laboratory, cold chain

Category: Updates

FLASOG to participate in the implementation of strategies to control rubella and prevent CRS in the Americas

Health Topics: congenital rubella syndrome, epidemiological surveillance, program management, information systems

Category: Updates

Annual summary of polio and measles indicators

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Data Summaries

Diphtheria incidence and coverage in the Americas, 1978-2000

Health Topics: DTP vaccine, DT/Td vaccine, epidemiological surveillance, incidence

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 1 - 2002

Measles outbreak in Venezuela

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, vaccination campaigns, social mobilization

Category: Country Experience

Assessing the risk for poliovirus circulation in Ecuador

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, information systems, [vaccination] coverage, active [case] search

Category: Updates

Cross-learning: sharing experiences of a rubella campaign

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, [immunization] plan of action, rubella/CRS elimination, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Country Experience

Final measles surveillance data, 2001

Health Topics: case classification

Category: Data Summaries

Environmental sampling in Hispanola

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, laboratory, polio vaccine

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 2 - 2002

Brazil accelerates control of rubella and prevention of congenital rubella syndrome

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, epidemiological surveillance, vaccination campaigns, social mobilization, communication, monitoring and evaluation, incidence, vaccination strategies

Category: Country Experience

Regional measles database: how "clean and complete" are the data?

Health Topics: information systems, data quality, monitoring and evaluation, program management

Category: Updates

Outbreak of jungle yellow fever in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Health Topics: outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, communication, ESAVI, distribution, incidence

Category: Updates

Coverage rates: DTP-3, OPV-3, measles, BCG. Region of the Americas, 2000 and 2001

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage

Category: Data Summaries

Central America reaffirms commitment to immunization goals

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, monitoring and evaluation, vaccination, [immunization] plan of action

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 3 - 2002

Ministers of Health of Andean Region pledge support to halt measles virus transmission

Health Topics: outbreaks, immunization partnerships, disease elimination/disease eradication, program financing and sustainability, vaccination campaigns, active [case] search

Category: Meeting Reports

Update: measles outbreak in Venezuela

Health Topics: outbreaks, community mobilization, rapid coverage monitoring, human resources, political commitment, incidence, distribution

Category: Country Experience

Measles outbreak in Colombia

Health Topics: outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, rapid coverage monitoring, communication

Category: Country Experience

Haiti and the Dominican Republic join efforts to control polio and measles on the island of Hispaniola

Health Topics: outbreaks, immunization partnerships, first ladies and other political figures

Category: Country Experience

Diphtheria outbreak in Paraguay

Health Topics: outbreaks, communication, community mobilization, rapid coverage monitoring, active [case] search, incidence, distribution, vaccination, training

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccine-preventable diseases, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 4 - 2002

Towards measles eradication in the Americas: the last inch?

Health Topics: distribution, incidence, [vaccination] coverage, immunization partnerships, vaccination campaigns, rapid coverage monitoring, epidemiological surveillance, active [case] search

Category: Updates

Lessons learned: first two years of regional rubella surveillance. An analysis of national rubella data

Health Topics: information systems (GIS, MESS/PESS, JRF), measles eradication, case distribution, laboratory, rubella/CRS elimination, integrated surveillance

Category: Updates

Immunization programs of the Southern Cone and Brazil reviewed

Health Topics: measles eradication, rubella/CRS elimination, polio, neonatal tetanus,[vaccination] coverage, indicators, MMR/MR vaccines, communication

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Reported cases of selected diseases

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, measles, polio, tetanus, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

Immunization goals in the global sustainable development and poverty reduction agenda

Health Topics: millennium development goals, immunization partnerships

Category: Meeting Reports

EPI Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 5 - 2002

Six weeks without reported indigenous measles transmission in the Americas

Health Topics: measles eradication, vaccination campaigns, MMR/MR vaccines, monitoring and evaluation, incidence

Category: Updates

Accelerated rubella control and prevention of CRS evolving strategies

Health Topics: rubella/CRS elimination, MMR/MR vaccines, vaccination strategies, laboratory

Category: Updates

Supervision: an under-utilized management tool to identify risk areas

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage, epidemiological surveillance, outbreaks, vaccine safety, rapid coverage monitoring, program management, surveys

Category: Updates

Achieving equitable immunization coverage: the Bolivian project

Health Topics: community mobilization, municipalities at risk, communication, program management

Category: Country Experience

Quality control system for the surveillance of bacterial meningitis and pneumonia

Health Topics: pneumococcus (pneumonia and meningitis), laboratory, communication, training

Category: Updates

Diphtheria outbreak in Paraguay - an update

Health Topics: outbreaks, [vaccination] coverage, incidence, distribution, vaccination strategies

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 6 - 2002

Expanded Program on Immunization: 25th anniversary!

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, new vaccines, vacciantion

Category: Updates

Vaccines and immunization in the Americas: milestones 1977-2002

Health Topics: milestones

Category: Updates

XV meeting of PAHO Technical Advisory Group

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, measles, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, polio, neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), vaccination strategies

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Immunization management and sustainability

Health Topics: program management, program financing and sustainability, data quality, supervision

Category: Updates

State of the world's vaccines and immunization

Health Topics: millennium development goals, program financing and sustainability, vacciantion

Category: Meeting Reports

EPI Newsletter Vol. 25 No. 1 - 2003

19 weeks without reported transmission of the d9 measles virus in the Western hemisphere!

Health Topics: vaccination strategies, rapid coverage monitoring, [vaccination] coverage, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

The importance of ensuring high quality and accurate data in EPI programs

Health Topics: data quality, [vaccination] coverage, program management, supervision, municipalities at risk

Category: Updates

Joint collaboration between the Expanded Program on Immunization and child survival initiatives: the case of Nicaragua

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, community mobilization, vitamin A

Category: Country Experience

South American countries plan joint immunization week in June reaching high-risk population groups

Health Topics: vaccination week in the americas, population at risk, monitoring and evaluation, vaccination strategies, supervision, indicators

Category: Updates

Measles surveillance in the Americas. Final measles surveillance data, 2002

Health Topics: case classification

Category: Data Summaries

Haiti launches initiative to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus

Health Topics: Women of childbearing age (WCBA), tetanus toxoid, training, communication, information systems

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 25 No. 2 - 2003

The use of rapid coverage monitoring: the vaccination campaign against measles and rubella in Ecuador

Health Topics: rapid coverage monitoring, training, indicators, supervision

Category: Country Experience

Vaccination Week in the Americas

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, first ladies and other political figures, plan of action

Category: Updates

Upcoming meetings

Health Topics: schedule

Category: Updates

Steps to accelerate the use of rotavirus vaccines in the Americas

Health Topics: rotavirus, new vaccines, rotavirus vaccine, laboratory, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

USAID-PAHO renew their partnership

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, disease elimination/disease eradication, inter-agency coordinating committee

Category: Updates

How to administer intramuscular (IM) injections

Health Topics: vaccine safety

Category: Updates

PAHO's Revolving Fund vaccine prices for 2003

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 25 No. 3 - 2003

Sustainable national immunization programs

Health Topics: rubella/CRS elimination, immunization partnerships, millennium development goals, program financing and sustainability, political commitment

Category: Updates

Importation of the H1 measles virus in Mexico City, April 2003

Health Topics: incidence, case distribution, laboratory, [vaccination] coverage, rapid coverage monitoring, active [case] search

Category: Country Experience

Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system evaluation in Ecuador

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, training, rapid coverage monitoring, active [case] search

Category: Country Experience

How to administer subcutaneous (SC) injections

Health Topics: vaccine safety

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 25 No. 4 - 2003

First Vaccination Week in the Americas: results and conclusions

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, communication, population at risk, [vaccination] coverage, vaccination strategies, political commitment

Category: Updates

Summary of EPI evaluation in Belize, May 2003

Health Topics: costs, cold chain, monitoring and evaluation, training, supervision, epidemiological surveillance, information systems

Category: Country Experience

Jungle yellow fever: current status of outbreaks in the regions of the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, vaccination campaigns, active [case] search, case distribution

Category: Updates

Coverage rates: DTP-3, OPV-3, measles, BCG. Region of the Americas, 2002

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage

Category: Declarations

In memoriam: Frederick C. Robbins, M.D., 1957 Nobel laureate

Health Topics: polio vaccine

Category: In Memoriam

EPI Newsletter Vol. 25 No. 5 - 2003

Sustaining immunization programs - Elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability, vaccination week in the Americas, immunization partnerships, resolution

Category: PAHO Resolutions

Andean and Southern Cone sub-regional meetings on vaccine-preventable diseases, 1-3 September 2003

Health Topics: measles, measles vaccine, vaccine safety, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, AFP surveillance, [vaccination] coverage, vaccination

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Global meeting for sustainable measles mortality reduction and immunization systems strengthening. 15-17 October, Cape Town, South Africa

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, measles, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Declarations

Packaging vaccines for transportation in cold boxes and thermoses

Health Topics: cold chain

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 25 No. 6 - 2003

Caribbean EPI managers' meeting, 17-20 November 2003

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, integrated surveillance, measles eradication, rubella/CRS elimination, AFP surveillance, laboratory, plan of action

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Evaluating coverage data in Bolivia: a guarantee of equity and social justice

Health Topics: monitoring and evaluation, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Country Experience

Formulas for calculation of EPI coverage indicators

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage

Category: Updates

Summary of EPI evaluation of Nicaragua, November 2003

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage, surveys, population at risk

Category: Country Experience

Paraguay passes vaccine law

Health Topics: revolving fund, immunization partnerships, legislation

Category: Updates

Annual summary of polio and measles indicators - 2003

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 26 No. 1 - 2004

Plans to launch second Vaccination Week in the Americas, 24-30 April 2004

Health Topics: vaccination week in the Americas, vaccination campaigns, communication, population at risk, plan of action

Category: PAHO Resolutions

Advances in the organization of the VWA at the US-Mexico border

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Vaccination success in Haiti in 2003

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage, vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Perspectives on measles and rubella elimination initiatives in the region of the Americas

Health Topics: plan of action, integrated surveillance, vaccination campaigns, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Updates

PAHO's Revolving Fund vaccine prices for 2004

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 26 No. 2 - 2004

Meeting of Ad-Hoc Panel of Experts on Rubella and Measles

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, rubella/CRS elimination, laboratory

Category: Meeting Reports

Towards elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, social mobilization, MMR/MR vaccines, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

Measles elimination in Mexico

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, vaccination campaigns, MMR/MR vaccines, political commitment, active [case] search

Category: Country Experience

Coverage rates: DTP-3, OPV-3, measles, and BCG. Region of the Americas, 2003

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage

Category: Data Summaries

Vaccines: preventing disease and protecting health

Health Topics: publications

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 26 No. 3 - 2004

Diphtheria outbreak in the Dominican Republic

Health Topics: diphtheria,incidence, [vaccination] coverage, population at risk

Category: Country Experience

Influenza vaccination amoung risk groups in Costa Rica: an evidence-based decision

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, influenza vaccine, laboratory, population at risk

Category: Country Experience

TechNet21 2004 consultation in Antalya, Turkey

Health Topics: cold chain, new vaccines

Category: Updates

Measles surveillance in the Americas: Final data, 2003

Health Topics: case classification

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 26 No. 4 - 2004

Accumulation of measles susceptibles: the experience of the English-speaking Caribbean, Suriname, and Paraguay

Health Topics: information systems, vaccination campaigns, vaccination

Category: Country Experience

Comparison of three alternatives for administering DTP, Haemophilus influenzae type b, and hepatitis b vaccines through the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in Bolivia

Health Topics: pentavalent (DTP-Hib-HepB) vaccine, haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine, revolving fund, costs

Category: Country Experience

A culture of prevention: a model for control of vaccine-preventable diseases

Health Topics: technical advisory group (TAG), vaccine-preventable diseases

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 26 No. 5 - 2004

Vaccination of adults to sustain the interruption of measles transmission and to eliminate rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Ecuador

Health Topics: rubella/CRS elimination, vaccination of adults, immunization partnerships, communication, program financing and sustainability, information systems, political commitment

Category: Country Experience

Active search of acute flaccid paralysis cases in Guatemala

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, information systems, training, supervision

Category: Country Experience

PAHO-USAID partnership: a tool for promoting health in the Americas

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, revolving fund, revolving fund prices, program financing and sustainability, new vaccines

Category: Meeting Reports

Experts meet in Mexico City to discuss rotavirus

Health Topics: rotavirus, rotavirus vaccine, declaration

Category: Meeting Reports

Annual summary of polio and measles indicators - Final, 2003

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 26 No. 6 - 2004

XVI meeting of PAHO Technical Advisory Group on vaccine-preventable diseases: conclusions and recommendations

Health Topics: rubella/CRS elimination, epidemiological surveillance, measles, polio, laboratory, neonatal tetanus, haemophilus influenzae type b (hib), vaccine safety, vaccination strategies

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

New and under-utilized vaccines

Health Topics: rotavirus vaccine, pneumococcal vaccine, human papillomavirus vaccine, committee

Category: Updates

2004 PAHO award for immunization

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 27 No. 1 - 2005

Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome elimination in the Americas: the beginning of the end

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory, vaccination in adults

Category: Updates

Main strategies for rubella and CRS elimination in the Americas

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, routine vaccine, vaccination campaigns, congenital rubella syndrome, laboratory, communication, integrated surveillance

Category: Updates

Measles/rubella weekly bulletin: new format

Health Topics: publications

Category: Updates

Cleaning up the regional MESS database

Health Topics: information systems, data quality, program management

Category: Updates

PAHO's Revolving Fund vaccine prices for 2005

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 27 No. 2 - 2005

Meeting of the interagency coordination committee for immunization, Guatemala, March 2005: pushing the unfinished immunization agenda

Health Topics: inter-agency coordinating committee, immunization partnerships, pentavalent (DTP-Hib-HepB) vaccine, [vaccination] law

Category: Meeting Reports

Current developments in HPV vaccination

Health Topics: cervical cancer, human papillomavirus vaccine, vaccine production

Category: Updates

2005 immunization schedules for selected vaccines - Latin American countries

Health Topics: [immunization] schedules

Category: Updates

Immunization and HIV: the case of the English-speaking Caribbean

Health Topics: HIV/AIDS, vaccination strategies

Category: Country Experience

Third annual Vaccination Week in the Americas

Health Topics: population at risk, political commitment, vaccination strategies

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 27 No. 3 - 2005

Rotavirus update

Health Topics: rotavirus, diarrhea

Category: Updates

Nicaragua faces rotavirus outbreak

Health Topics: outbreaks, diarrhea, incidence

Category: Updates

Implementing the World Health Organization's generic protocol for hospital-based rotavirus disease burden assessment: Guatemala's experience

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, training, diarrhea, case definition evaluation, incidence, laboratory, information systems

Category: Country Experience

EPI Revolving Fund operational workshop Washignton, D.C., 14-17 March 2005

Health Topics: revolving fund, program financing and sustainability, vaccine quality control, cold chain, syringe quality control

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 27 No. 4 - 2005

XVIII Meeting on vaccine-preventable diseases of the Central American region, Mexico, and the Latin Caribbean

Health Topics: measles eradication, rubella/CRS elimination, AFP surveillance, pertussis (whooping cough), neonatal tetanus, influenza vaccine, new vaccines

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Diarrheal illness in Central America (January to March 2005)

Health Topics: diarrhea, rotavirus, laboratory, incidence

Category: Updates

Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome elimination strategy: contributing to primary health care renewal

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, laboratory, program management, [vaccination] coverage, vaccination of adults, integrated surveillance, political commitment

Category: Updates

Measles/rubella surveillance in the Americas: final data, 2004

Health Topics: case classification

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 27 No. 5 - 2005

Vaccination considerations in the event of an impending influenza pandemic

Health Topics: influenza, vaccine production, pandemic, plan of action

Category: Updates

Sustaining national immunization programs in the context of introducing new vaccines and achieving the Millenium Development Goals

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, revolving fund, vaccine production, political commitment

Category: PAHO Resolutions

Update on Thimerosal and Autism

Health Topics: MMR/MR vaccines, research

Category: Updates

Vaccination Week in the Americas 2005: achievements and recommendations

Health Topics: first ladies and other political figures, immunization partnerships, vaccination campaigns, communication, population at risk, plan of action

Category: Updates

Regional plan for quality control and safety of syringes

Health Topics: revolving fund, syringe quality control, national regulatory authority, vaccine safety, [vaccination] waste disposal

Category: Updates

Guidelines for use of auto-disable (AD) syringes

Health Topics: vaccine safety

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 27 No. 6 - 2005

The elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Nicaragua

Health Topics: technical guidelines, vaccination campaigns, communication, social mobilization, immunization partnerships, program management, political commitment, supervision, training

Category: Updates

XIV Meeting of the Andean region and XVII meeting of the Southern Cone on vaccine-preventable diseases

Health Topics: political commitment, immunization partnerships, measles eradication, rubella/CRS elimination, epidemiological surveillance, mumps, influenza, vaccination week in the Americas

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Partnering for HPV vaccine introduction

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, human papillomavirus vaccine, cervical cancer, revolving fund

Category: Meeting Reports

Reported cases of selected diseases 2003-2004

Health Topics: measles, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, polio, neonatal tetanus, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 28 No. 1 - 2006

2005 Caribbean EPI managers' meeting

Health Topics: measles eradication, rubella/CRS elimination, vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, influenza pandemic, polio, new vaccines, rotavirus

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Immunization data quality self-assesment: the Costa Rica experience

Health Topics: monitoring and evaluation, data quality, information systems, plan of action

Category: PAHO Resolutions

Classification of suspect measles/rubella cases as "Vaccine-related": Compliance with PAHO recommendations

Health Topics: measles vaccine, rubella vaccine, ESAVI, information systems (GIS, MESS/PESS, JRF)

Category: Meeting Reports

Regional workshop on rotavirus surveillance

Health Topics: definition, epidemiological surveillance, rotavirus, training

Category: Meeting Reports

Update on rotavirus surveillance in the Americas

Health Topics: incidence, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Updates

PAHO Revolving Fund vaccine prices for 2006

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices

Category: Updates

2006 Vaccination Week in the Americas

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, community mobilization, social mobilization, communication

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 28 No. 2 - 2006

Measles outbreak reported in Venezuela

Health Topics: outbreaks, vaccination campaigns, importation, distribution, active [case] search

Category: Country Experience

Influenza control in El Salvador

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, influenza vaccine, laboratory, ESAVI, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Country Experience

Rubella watch: a special news supplement to the PAHO Immunization Newsletter

Health Topics: publications, rubella/CRS elimination

Category: Updates

Creating fiscal space to strengthen and expand national immunization programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Health Topics: population at risk, program financing and sustainability, legislation, revolving fund

Category: Updates

Analysis of vaccination-related legislation in the Americas

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability, laboratory, PAHO directing council, surveys

Category: PAHO Resolutions

The PAHO-GAVI partnership

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, vaccine safety, revolving fund, [vaccination] coverage, new vaccines

Category: Updates

Annual summary of AFP and measles/rubella indicators, 2005

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Data Summaries

Message from WHO's director-general: polio eradication and risk of international spread of wild poliovirus

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, incidence, vaccination

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 28 No. 3 - 2006

Launching of VWA 2006 at the Mexico-US border

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, immunization partnerships, population at risk

Category: Updates

Measles virus importations: a constant threat to measles elimination in the Americas

Health Topics: outbreaks, epidemiological surveillance, importation, incidence

Category: Updates

Lessons learned from recent measles outbreaks

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, importation, groups at risk

Category: Updates

Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome elimination: fast becoming a reality

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, costs, adult vaccination

Category: Updates

Estimated vaccine-preventable child mortality in the Americas

Health Topics: millennium development goals, mortality

Category: Updates

Measles/rubella/congenital rubella syndrome. Surveillance data, 2005

Health Topics: case classification

Category: Data Summaries

PAHO and Sabin Vaccine Institute: second year of partnership

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, epidemiological surveillance, rubella/CRS elimination

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 28 No. 4 - 2006

XVII TAG meeting - Protecting the health of the Americas: moving from child to family immunization

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, measles, polio, program management, vaccination week in the Americas, vaccine safety, program financing and sustainability, new vaccines

Category: Updates

Ad-hoc meeting of experts to establish best practices in CRS surveillance

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, congenital rubella syndrome, rubella/CRS elimination

Category: Meeting Reports

EPI Newsletter Vol. 28 No. 5 - 2006

Regional strategy for sustaining national immunization in the Americas

Health Topics: [vaccination] coverage, diphtheria, yellow fever, rubella/CRS elimination, new vaccines, population at risk, adult vaccines, inter-agency coordinating committee, revolving fund

Category: PAHO Resolutions

GAVI and Guyana: a success story

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, new vaccines

Category: Country Experience

Update on rotavirus surveillance in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, indicators

Category: Updates

Neonatal tetanus: global and regional outlook

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, case distribution, incidence, population at risk

Category: Updates

Administration of vitamin a supplements

Health Topics: vitamin A, [immunization] schedules

Category: Updates

Meeting on epidemiologic surveillance of bacterial pneumonia and meningitis

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, hepatitis B vaccine, [immunization] schedules

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 28 No. 6 - 2006

SIGN and TechNet21 meetings

Health Topics: vaccine safety, syringe quality control, vaccine quality control, cold chain

Category: Meeting Reports

Ad hoc meeting of experts on surveillance of HPV-associated disease in the Americas

Health Topics: HPV, costs, cost-effectiveness, cervical cancer, information systems, laboratory

Category: Country Experience

Presidential Leadership Award from Women in Government

Health Topics: cervical cancer, program financing and sustainability, award

Category: Awards

Measles and rubella laboratory network in the region of the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, laboratory, research, indicators

Category: Updates

Paramaribo declaration

Health Topics: declaration

Category: Declarations

Reported cases of selected diseases, 2004-2005

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Data Summaries

Recent advances in immunization

Health Topics: publications

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 29 No. 1 - 2007

Update on influenza vaccination in the Americas

Health Topics: influenza vaccine, survey, population at risk

Category: Meeting Reports

Update on measles outbreaks in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, research, incidence, importation

Category: Updates

Pneumonia hospitalization in children in Uruguay and influenza and pneumonia vaccination

Health Topics: influenza, influenza vaccine, research

Category: Country Experience

VWA and world cricket cup unit efforts to prevent diseases

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, importation

Category: Country Experience

Vaccination Week in the Americas: 5th anniversary

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, communication, population at risk

Category: Updates

PAHO Revolving Fund vaccine and syringe prices for 2007

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices, new vaccines

Category: Updates

Rubella elimination in the Americas: last countries to conduct vaccination campaigns

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns, social mobilization, information systems, political commitment

Category: Updates

Annual summary of AFP and measles/rubella indicators. 2006

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 29 No. 2 - 2007

Summary of EPI evaluation in Uruguay, November 2006

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, primary health care, monitoring and evaluation, political commitment, [immunization] schedules, ESAVI, population at risk

Category: Country Experience

AFP surveillance in Canada

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, laboratory, research, importation

Category: Country Experience

Update on PAHO's ProVac initiative

Health Topics: GAVI, new vaccines

Category: Updates

XV Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro and risk of rubella

Health Topics: rubella/CRS surveillance, MMR/MR vaccines, outbreaks

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 29 No. 3 - 2007

Resource mobilization and partnerships for achieving the regional goal of rubella and CRS elimination

Health Topics: rubella, disease elimination,disease eradication, congenital rubella syndrome, immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

Measles and rubella vaccination campaign in Honduras

Health Topics: rubella,disease elimination, disease eradication, vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Rubella and CRS elimination in El Salvador

Health Topics: rubella, disease elimination, disease eradication, vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Rubella vaccination campaign in Argentina

Health Topics: rubella, disease elimination, disease eradication, vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Lessons learned from rubella vaccination campaigns in the Americas

Health Topics: rubella, disease elimination, disease eradication, vaccination campaigns

Category: Updates

Vaccination campaign phases for rubella and CRS elimination in the Americas

Health Topics: rubella, vaccination campaigns, congenital rubella syndrome, disease elimination, disease eradication

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 29 No. 4 - 2007

Changing lives: newborn hearing screening in Costa Rica

Health Topics: congenital rubella syndrome, hearing

Category: Country Experience

XIX meeting of the Central American region, Mexico, and the Latin Caribbean

Health Topics: political commitment, AFP surveillance, influenza vaccine, pertussis (whooping cough), laboratory, supervision, ESAVI, rubella/CRS elimination, new vaccines, monitoring and evaluation

Category: EPI Evaluation Reports

Solid waste recycling in Bolivia

Health Topics: waste disposal

Category: Updates

Vaccine legislation, Revolving Fund & regional syringe plan

Health Topics: revolving fund, program financing and sustainability, syringe quality control

Category: Updates

In memoriam: Gloria García Santibáñez, first national EPI manager of Panama

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, EPI

Category: In Memoriam

EPI Newsletter Vol. 29 No. 5 - 2007

Haiti to launch a rubella and CRS elimination campaign on 5 November

Health Topics: congenital rubella syndrome, rubella, epidemiological surveillance, vitamin A, rubella/CRS elimination, incidence

Category: Country Experience

Vaccination Week in the Americas: fifth anniversary

Health Topics: vaccination strategies, population at risk, social mobilization, communication, immunization partnerships

Category: Updates

Summary of EPI evaluation in Honduras

Health Topics: new vaccines, program management, cold chain, information systems, data quality, indicators, adult vaccination

Category: Country Experience

Geographic information system for immunization

Health Topics: GIS, training

Category: Updates

Measles/rubella/CRS: final classification, 2006

Health Topics: case classification

Category: Data Summaries

Immunization in the Americas: 2007 summary now available

Health Topics: publications

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 29 No. 6 - 2007

Update on the status of HPV vaccines

Health Topics: human papillomavirus vaccine, research, cost-effectiveness

Category: Updates

PAHO's ProVac initiative

Health Topics: rotavirus, pneumococcus (pneumonia and meningitis), cervical cancer, immunization partnerships, costs

Category: Updates

Pertussis in the Americas

Health Topics: incidence, outbreaks, DTP vaccine, immunization partnerships

Category: Meeting Reports

PAHO's Revolving Fund: doing more with less

Health Topics: monitoring and evaluation, cold chain, new vaccines, program financing and sustainability

Category: Declarations

Rotavirus vaccines

Health Topics: new vaccines

Category: Updates

Reported cases of selected diseases, 2005-2006

Health Topics: case classification

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 30 No. 1 - 2008

27th Pan American Sanitary Conference adopts resolution for the elimination of rubella and CRS in the Americas

Health Topics: resolution, rubella/CRS elimination, first ladies and other political figures

Category: PAHO Resolutions

Paving the road for pneumococcal vaccine introduction

Health Topics: pneumococcus (pneumonia and meningitis), pneumococcal vaccine, immunization partnerships, GAVI

Category: Updates

Documenting the interruption of endemic rubella and measles virus transmission in the Americas

Health Topics: resolution, experts committee, surveillance, incidence, vaccination campaigns, adult vaccination

Category: PAHO Resolutions

Aide-memoire for prevention of freeze damage to vaccines

Health Topics: cold chain, vaccines

Category: Updates

Vaccine freezing: results from a study conducted in Bolivia

Health Topics: cold chain, communication, training, supervision

Category: Country Experience

Evaluation of sentinel surveillance system of diarrhea due to rotavirus in Paraguay

Health Topics: AFP surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, diarrhea, rotavirus, plan of action, interviews

Category: Country Experience

2008 PAHO Revolving fund vaccine prices

Health Topics: revolving fund, revolving fund prices, new vaccines

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 30 No. 2 - 2008

PAHO-CIII partnership: supporting vaccination in Haiti

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, vaccine-preventable diseases, program financing and sustainability, training

Category: Country Experience

Sixth Vaccination Week in the Americas: 19-26 April 2008

Health Topics: political commitment, population at risk, [immunization] schedules

Category: Updates

Certification of polio laboratory containment in the Americas

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, poliovirus containment, AMR RCC

Category: Meeting Reports

New algorithm for poliovirus testing

Health Topics: polio eradication, laboratory

Category: Updates

Surveillance of bacterial pneumonia and meningitis in the Americas

Health Topics: epidemiological surveillance, data quality, schedules, ProVac

Category: Updates

Joint regional efforts towards global polio eradication

Health Topics: immunization partnerships, program financing and sustainability, world health organization (WHO)

Category: Meeting Reports

Vaccines and immunization in the Americas: 1977-2007 milestones

Health Topics: milestones

Category: Updates

Annual summary of AFP and measles/rubella indicators, 2007

Health Topics: indicators

Category: Data Summaries

PAHO Revolving Fund: syringe prices, 2008

Health Topics: syringes, costs

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 30 No. 3 - 2008

PAHO Revolving Fund: operating procedures for the purchase of vaccines, syringes, and related supplies

Health Topics: procedures, costs, vaccine quality control

Category: Updates

Measles, rubella, and CRS elimination: Costa Rica makes history

Health Topics: national commissions, immunization partnerships, epidemiological surveillance

Category: Country Experience

Regional plan for quality control and safety of syringes

Health Topics: syringe quality control, vaccine safety, norms, training

Category: Updates

Design and use of AD syringes

Health Topics: training, procedures

Category: Updates

Calculating needs for vaccines and syringes at local level

Health Topics: procedures

Category: Updates

Estimating needs for injection waste management

Health Topics: waste, costs, procedures

Category: Updates

Laboratory containment of wild poliovirus: group B countries workshop

Health Topics: workshop, polio, laboratory, AMR RCC, national committee

Category: Meeting Reports

EPI Newsletter Vol. 30 No. 4 - 2008

Analysis of vaccine laws in the Americas: achieving equity and access for all

Health Topics: program financing and sustainability, revolving fund, legislation

Category: Updates

Towards comprehensive cervical cancer prevention and control: the Mexico City declaration

Health Topics: new vaccines, HPV, immunization partnerships, human papillomavirus vaccine, declaration, cost-effectiveness

Category: Meeting Reports

HPV meeting in Mexico City: summary of needs expressed by member states for support from PAHO/WHO

Health Topics: communication, immunization partnerships, revolving fund, laboratory, training, research

Category: Updates

Nicaragua: national vaccination campaigns and community participation

Health Topics: social mobilization, community mobilization, vaccination campaigns, vaccination week in the Americas, immunization partnerships

Category: Country Experience

Main areas of work for HPV laboratory network

Health Topics: vaccine quality control, communication, training

Category: Updates

Transitioning from outreach to fixed-post vaccination in Nicaragua

Health Topics: vaccination strategies, communication, vaccination campaigns

Category: Country Experience

Reported cases of selected diseases, 2006-2007

Health Topics: incidence

Category: Data Summaries

Mexico City declaration

Health Topics: cervical cancer, declaration

Category: Declarations

EPI Newsletter Vol. 30 No. 5 - 2008

Descriptive analysis of immunization policy decision-making in the Americas

Health Topics: survey, technical advisory group (TAG), political commitment, ProVac

Category: Updates

Immunization program evaluation in Guyana

Health Topics: interviews, political commitment, [vaccination] coverage, resources, cold chain, training, vaccine-preventable disease surveillance, supervision, laboratory

Category: Updates

10-day electronic temperature monitoring devices

Health Topics: cold chain, preservation, vaccines

Category: Updates

Immunization in the Americas: 2008 summary now available

Health Topics: publications

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 30 No. 6 - 2008

ProVac workshop: the case of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

Health Topics: new vaccines, cost-effectiveness, [vaccination] coverage

Category: Meeting Reports

St. Maarten completes two vaccine coverage surveys

Health Topics: surveys, research, [vaccination] coverage, campaign

Category: Country Experience

ProVac workshop: feedback from country teams

Health Topics: training, new vaccines, program financing and sustainability, communication

Category: Updates

Update on the certification of polio laboratory containment in the Americas

Health Topics: AMR RCC, poliovirus containment, surveys, laboratory, resources

Category: Updates

Measles/rubella/CRS: final classification, 2007

Health Topics: case classification

Category: Data Summaries

Second AMR RCC meeting: recommendations and decisions

Health Topics: immunization partnerships

Category: Meeting Reports

EPI Newsletter Vol. 31 No. 01 - 2009

International Workshops on Injection Safety

Health Topics: injection safety

Category: Meeting Reports

Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network in the Americas

Health Topics: measles,rubella,laboratory,

Category: Updates

HPV Vaccine Introduction in Panama

Health Topics: human papillomavirus,human papillomavirus vaccine,

Category: Announcements

PAHO Revolving Fund: Vaccine and Syringe Prices for 2009

Health Topics: revolving fund,revolving fund prices,

Category: Announcements

Key Training Messages for Injection Safety

Health Topics: injection safety,

Category: Job Aids

Checklist of Resources for an Emergency Vaccine Retrieval and Storage Plan

Health Topics: cold chain,vaccine safety,

Category: Job Aids

A New Face for Rubella Watch

Health Topics: rubella,measles,publications,

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 31 No. 02 - 2009

Meeting of the Panel of Expert for the Documentation and Verification of Measles,Rubella, and CRS Elimination

Health Topics: measles,rubella,congenital rubella syndrome, disease elimination/eradication

Category: Meeting Reports

Brazil: Vaccination Campaign to Eliminate Rubella

Health Topics: rubella,vaccination campaigns,measles,

Category: Country Experience

Meeting of the Panel of Expert for the Documentation and Verification of Measles, Rubella, and CRS Elimination

Health Topics: measles,rubella,disease elimination/erradication

Category: Meeting Reports

Health and Integration Processes in the Americas: Measles and Rubella-free Borders

Health Topics: measles,rubella,disease elimination/eradication,

Category: Announcements

Eliminating Rubella and CRS in the Americas: An Achievable Dream

Health Topics: rubella,congenital rubella syndrome,disease elimination,

Category: Announcements

Measles Virus Importations: A Continuing Struggle for the Americas

Health Topics: measles,disease elimination,laboratory,

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 31 No. 03 - 2009

Current Situation of Influenza A(H1N1)

Health Topics: influenza, pandemic

Category: Updates

WHO Pandemic Alert Phases

Health Topics: influenza, pandemic

Category: Updates

Pandemics and Pandemic Threats Since 1900

Health Topics: influenza, pandemic

Category: Updates

Facts About Influenza Infection, Vaccination, and Treatment

Health Topics: influenza,influenza vaccine,

Category: Updates

Questions and Answers Related to Vaccines for the New Influenza A(H1N1)

Health Topics: influenza,influenza vaccine,pandemic

Category: Updates

Influenza A(H1N1): Sources of Information

Health Topics: influenza,publications,

Category: Updates

Influenza A(H1N1): Advice for Individuals

Health Topics: influenza,

Category: Updates

EPI Newsletter Vol. 31 No. 04 - 2009

Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Campaign in Guyana

Health Topics: influenza,vaccination campaigns,

Category: Country Experience

National Campaign to Eliminate Rubella and Strengthen Measles Elimination in Haiti

Health Topics: measles,rubella,vaccination campaigns,

Category: Country Experience

Suspect Rubella Cases with Positive Laboratory Results, Guatemala, 2008

Health Topics: rubella,laboratory,

Category: Country Experience

Tetanus-Diphtheria Immunization of Pregnant Women in Guyana

Health Topics: tetanus,neonatal tetanus,diphtheria,Td vaccine, monitoring and evaluation

Category: Country Experience

Measles/Rubella/CRS: Final Classification, 2008

Health Topics: measles,rubella,congenital rubella syndrome,

Category: Data Summaries

EPI Newsletter Vol. 31 No. 05 - 2009

XVIII TAG Meeting: Conclusions and Recommendations

Health Topics: technical advisory group (tag),influenza,pandemic,polio,pertussis (whooping cough),yellow fever,pneumococcus (pneumonia and meningitis),rotavirus,human papillomavirus,revolving fund,provac,data quality,

Category: Meeting Reports

Rubella, CRS, and Measles in the Americas

Health Topics: rubella,measles,congenital rubella syndrome,

Category: Updates

Immunization Project Launches Three Publications

Health Topics: measles,rubella,congenital rubella syndrome,publications,

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 31 No. 06 - 2009

Diphtheria Outbreak in Haiti, 2009

Health Topics: diphtheria,outbreaks,

Category: Country Experience

Evaluation of Bacterial Pneumonia and Meningitis Surveillance in Guatemala

Health Topics: pneumococcus (pneumonia and meningitis),haemophilus influenzae type b (hib),epidemiological surveillance,laboratory,

Category: Country Experience

Polio Laboratory Network

Health Topics: polio,laboratory,

Category: Updates

Aide-memoire: Hepatitis B Immunization of Health Workers

Health Topics: hepatitis b,hepatitis b vaccine,

Category: Updates

Influenza A(H1N1): Technical Guidelines for Vaccination Against the Pandemic Influenza Virus

Health Topics: influenza,influenza vaccine,pandemic,publications,

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 32 No. 01 - 2010

Honduras: Denominator Adjustment in Population Aged Under Five Year

Health Topics: data quality,coverage,rapid coverage monitoring,

Category: Country Experience

Yellow Fever ESAVIs in Peru, 2007: Findings from an Expert Panel

Health Topics: yellow fever,yellow fever vaccine,esavis,

Category: Country Experience

PAHO Revolving Fund: Vaccine and Syringe Prices, 2010

Health Topics: revolving fund,revolving fund prices,

Category: Announcements

2009 AFP Rate Reaches Lowest Level in 10 Years

Health Topics: afp surveillance,polio,epidemiological surveillance,

Category: Updates

AFP and Measles/Rubella Indicators, 2009

Health Topics: afp surveillance,polio,epidemiological surveillance,measles,rubella,

Category: Data Summaries

Peru’s 2010 Budget Law: National Immunization Program to Secure Funds

Health Topics: legislation,

Category: Country Experience

EPI Newsletter Vol. 32 No. 02 - 2010

Americas Successfully Complete Phase 1 of Polio Containment

Health Topics: polio,laboratory,

Category: Updates

Pandemic Influenza (H1N1) 2009 and Vaccine Safety

Health Topics: influenza,influenza vaccine,pandemic,vaccine safety,esavis,

Category: Updates

ProVac: Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Rotavirus Vaccines

Health Topics: provac,rotavirus vaccine,

Category: Meeting Reports

8th Vaccination Week in the Americas

Health Topics: vaccination week in the americas,

Category: Announcements

How to Perform the Shake Test

Health Topics: cold chain,

Category: Job Aids

EPI Newsletter Vol. 32 No. 03 - 2010

Sharing Experiences in Measles, Rubella, and CRS Elimination

Health Topics: measles,rubella,congenital rubella syndrome,disease elimination,

Category: Updates

Uruguay: Faculty of Medicine Plays a Major Role in National Vaccination Campaign

Health Topics: hepatitis A,vaccination campaigns,

Category: Country Experience

Brazil Implements Workshops to Improve Vaccination Coverage at Local Level

Health Topics: data quality,coverage,

Category: Country Experience

On-line International Vaccine Economics and Statistics (OLIVES)

Health Topics: provac,publications,

Category: Announcements

Measles/Rubella/CRS: Final Classification, 2009

Health Topics: measles,rubella,congenital rubella syndrome,

Category: Data Summaries

63rd WHA Endorses Resolutions on a Variety of Immunization Issues

Health Topics: measles,hepatitis b,pneumococcus (pneumonia and meningitis),world health organization,

Category: Announcements

EPI Newsletter Vol. 32 No. 04 - 2010

UNASUR’s Role in the Vaccination Against Pandemic Influenza

Health Topics: influenza,influenza vaccine,pandemic,political commitment,revolving fund,

Category: Updates

Polio in Tajikistan: A Reminder of the Risk of Importations to Polio-free Regions

Health Topics: polio,outbreaks,disease eradication,

Category: Updates

WHO Director-General Statement Following the 9th Meeting of the Emergency Committee

Health Topics: influenza,influenza vaccine,world health organization,pandemic

Category: Announcements

Haiti: Vaccination Campaign Following the Earthquake

Health Topics: vaccination campaigns,

Category: Country Experience

Advances in Cervical Cancer Prevention in Latin America

Health Topics: cervical cancer,human papillomavirus,

Category: Meeting Reports

What’s New About Vaccine Surveillance

Health Topics: rotavirus,pneumococcus (pneumonia and meningitis),publications,epidemiological surveillance,

Category: Announcements

Questions and Answers About Vaccination

Health Topics: cold chain,program management,vaccination (general)

Category: Job Aids

History of the EPI in Colombia

Health Topics: program management,publications,

Category: Announcements