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Mother and child at the Boane clinic (Photo: Heidi Larson)

GAVI Resource Centre

GAVI Board and Working Group documents

Country proposals to GAVI and the Vaccine Fund

Vaccine product agendas

Other relevant documents

Strengthening Immunization Programs:

New resources from an inter-regional workshop in Annecy, France

Immunize every child: GAVI strategy for sustainable immunization services (Word – 366kb approx.)
Commissioned by the GAVI Financing Task Force, this Q&A draws on the views of development banks, UN agencies, bilateral aid organizations, academic institutions and government immunization programs.

Advocating Immunization:

New resources from the GAVI Advocacy Task Force

Financing Immunization:

Development Loans for Immunization-Questions and Answers
Commissioned by the GAVI Financing Task Force, this Q&A draws on the views of development banks, UN agencies, bilateral aid organization, academic institutions and government immunization programs.
Resources from the GAVI Financing Task Force

GAVI Clinical Trials Catalogue 1990-2000, First Draft For Open Review

Trends in vaccine products for developing countries:

Powerpoint presentation (638kb approx.)
Divergence of products for public sector immunization programmes V&B SAGE - 6/2001

CVI Forum:

Complete archive (to June 1999) of the now ceased publication of the former Children’s Vaccine Initiative, a useful source of information and debate on key children’s vaccine issues

Vaccine research, development and safe implementation:

The Jordan Report: Accelerated Development of Vaccines. 2000. A full-length report (173 pages) from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, summarizing current vaccine development status.

PDF file (2,146kb approx.) – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

Safety of Injections 1999: WHO-UNICEF joint statement on the use of auto-disable syringes in immunization services (WHO/V&B/99.25)

PDF file 30kb approx. – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

Quality of the cold chain 1999: WHO-UNICEF policy statement on the use of vaccine vial monitors in immunization services (WHO/V&B/99.18)

PDF file 27kb approx. – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

From the research journals:

From the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, January 2000: ’Which Pneumococcal Serogroups Cause the Most Invasive Disease: Implications for Conjugate Vaccine Formulation and Use’. A review by Hausdorff et al.

Part I. (2000: 30: pp 100-121)

Part II. (2000: 30: pp 122-140)

Global policy developments:

U.S. President Bill Clinton’s Millennium Vaccine Initiative: Public Statement at the White House, 2 March, 2000

Health economics and cost-effectiveness analysis:

WHO Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy

Discussion paper No. 4

Development of WHO Guidelines on Generalised Cost-effectiveness Analysis 1999

28-page discussion document (PDF file) 113kb approx. – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

Children’s Health:

The Impact of Adult Deaths on Children’s Health in Northwestern Tanzania.

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2266

PDF file 98kb approx. – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

Relevant links and specialist news briefings

The Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA: a resource for parents and professionals
http://www.vaccine.chop.edu/

Partnerships for Health Reform, a project of the US Agency for International Development, has a section on immunization financing with downloadable resources for governments and decision makers:
http://www.phrproject.com/globali/immunfin.htm

En français: Vaccination Sites Francophones, a useful listing of French-language links from France and Canada:
http://www.chu-rouen.fr/ssf/ther/vaccination.html

The Resource Center of the Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program at PATH. Large and wide-ranging library of immunization-related resources, including technical and clinical manuals, materials for parents, and general documents related to vaccination. Excellent search engine.
http://www.childrensvaccine.org/html/resources.htm

The website of the Safe Injection Global Network
http://www.injectionsafety.org

The Vaccine Page, a rich resource on immunization for a wide range of users
http://www.vaccines.org

The U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: a useful source of publications and meetings information
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/

The Infectious Diseases Society of America has a dedicated site for its National Network for Immunization Information, with newsbriefs (with some international content) and other resources:
http://www.immunizationinfo.org

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a site for its National Immunization Program
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/

The Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/

The International Vaccine Institute, Seoul
http://www.ivi.org/

The UK Health Education Authority’s immunization site
Information for the public and for general readers
http://www.hea.org.uk/campaigns/immunisation/

Vaccine: a research journal
http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/3/0/5/2/1/index.htt

Immunofacts: a general resource offerring a wide range of immunization links
http://www.immunofacts.com

Health Canada’s immunization site (bilingual in English-French)
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/bid/di/

The Immunization Action Coalition, a United States nongovernmental organization with a wealth of information and further links.
http://www.immunize.org/

The US Food and Drug Administration Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System:
http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaers/vaers.htm

The Pan American Health Organization: a wide range of relevant information in Spanish and English
http://www.paho.org

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