What you may have missed    What you may have missed Resources News Events WHO 5th Global Forum on Human Resources for Health Register for PtD’s virtual parallel sessionWhen: Monday 3 April, 10:45 – 12:15 CEST How to register: Register herePeople that Deliver is playing a leading role in the session Health supply chain cadres: The m...

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This weekly report provides key highlights and operational recommendations based on social listening data from March 16-23 in Africa. https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2023-03/AIRA%20Infodemic%20Trends%20Report%20-%2016-23%20March%202023.pdf

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MARCH 22, 2023 HOT TOPICSNational IG Release 1.6: Call for experts, influencers, and advisors CDC, in collaboration with AIRA and NIST, is launching an Implementation Guide Expert Group in late spring 2023 to facilitate and contribute to the development of the national Release 1.6 of the Implementation Guide (IG) for Immunization Mes...

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Volume 17, Issue 2 - February 2023The Measles and Rubella Bulletin is a monthly publication reporting progress towards achieving measles and rubella elimination in the Western Pacific Region. Inside each issue, we present the latest reported data by country on measles and rubella incidence, surveillance performance, and ...

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View this email in your browserMOMENTUM Insidertogether withZeroing in on Zero-Dose MARCH 2023Thanks for reading this special edition of the MOMENTUM Insider and Immunization in Focus newsletters! This message is intended for subscribers to both newsletters. You can subscribe to all of our newsletters here.Introduction The term...

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Eastern Mediterranean health leaders call for redoubled efforts for a defining year for polioOn Tuesday 28 February 2023, ministers and high-level delegates from across the Eastern Mediterranean Region participated in the seventh meeting of the Regional Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks.Read more in...

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This weekly report provides key highlights and operational recommendations based on social listening data from March 10-16 in Africa. https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2023-03/AIRA%20Infodemic%20Trends%20Report%20-%2010-16%20March%202023.pdf

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MARCH 15, 2023 HOT TOPICSAIRA 2023 National Meeting Update Lucky me, lucky you, lucky together!The only thing better than a pot of gold is gathering annually for the AIRA 2023 National Meeting, where we can learn and collaborate to help build healthy communities through the development of IIS. You won’t want to m...

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Dear Donors and Partners,I write with unfortunate news. As you may already be aware, communities in Southern Malawi and Central Mozambique, where VillageReach works, are in turmoil right now. Cyclone Freddy - a record-breaking cyclone - made its way through both countries over the last 48 hours. VillageReach is happy to report that a...

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The “Strengthening implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health” guide was jointly developed by WHO, UNICEF and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for country programme managers. The guide aims to provide activities and decision-making tools that strengthen the processes around planning, designing, impl...

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The United Nations Foundation is pleased to share the newly released report, “Leveraging CSO Contributions to Advance Polio Transition and Integration Efforts in the African Region”, co-created with the Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Associations (CCRDA) in Ethiopia; Impact Health Organization (IHO) in South Sudan; Vaccine Network f...

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Vaccination coverage in children under 7 years, Guatemala City, November 2022. In 2020, reported vaccination coverage in Guatemala City was 50% for OPV3 and 61% for MMR1, classifying the city as high-risk for polio re-emergence. To report vaccination coverage, the Ministry of Public Health (MSPAS) uses a nominal electronic registry that does not in...

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The workshop took place on 22-23 February in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and was attended by 19 national staff from the Ministries of Health of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar. It was facilitated by experts from the Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella, IVP/EMRO, IVB/WHO HQ, US CDC and temporary advisors. The Eastern...

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A new benchmark report on life-course immunization highlights the urgent need for changes in global, regional and national immunization policies and plans to reach WHO’s 2030 Immunization Agenda (IA2030) and the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing objectives. The need to extend the benefits of vaccination from early life to include the whole li...

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Two new resource collections are available on TechNet-21. Existing technical resources (tools, technical guidance, information documents and databases) are organized in a user-friendly way allowing for structured browsing and comparison of resources. For each resource, a synopsis is provided to allow quick overview of the author, purpose, content, ...

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Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics (EYE) Strategy on Yellow Fever is a 16-part series that takes you inside the global efforts to ensure that yellow fever does not become the next big global health threat. We interview global experts from fields including immunization, climate change, space science, and the Amazon rainforest to show what goes into ar...

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10 March 2023, Vol. 98, No. 19, pp. 93–98 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 93 Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards: annual meeting on epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response, future surveillance 10 mars 2023, Vol. 98, No. 10, pp. 93-98 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO ...

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MARCH 8, 2023 HOT TOPICSIn case you missed it: IIS 101 Discovery Session recording now available On February 27, AIRA hosted IIS 101: An Introduction/Refresher. We received an overwhelming response to this session and had to cap registration to match Zoom capabilities.If you or a staff missed the live event, don'...

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT | MARCH 2023IVAC’s VIRA Chatbot Receives Silver Anthem Award for Innovative Approach to Vaccine Communication COVID-19 vaccine uptake has plateaued globally, largely in part due to rampant misinformation about the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness. To combat this phenomenon, IVAC launched VIRA, the CO...

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