Despite significant global efforts to improve vaccination coverage against major childhood diseases, vaccination rates are below 90%. To eradicate diseases such as measles, however, vaccination rates close to 95% are needed. We use a randomized experiment to investigate the effect of a demand incentive, a conditional cash transfer program, in improving vaccination coverage in rural Nicaragua. D...

A scenario tree model was developed to propose efficient bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) control measures. The model used field data in eastern Hokkaido where the risk of BVDV infection in cattle has been reduced by an eradication program including mass vaccination, individual tests prior to communal pasture grazing, herd screening tests using bulk milk, and outbreak investigations of newly infecte...

Introduction / objectives Mass vaccination campaign conducted according to the priority groups, and provision of free rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs) and antivirals to predefined population at flu clinics, were implemented as a national program in Taiwan to reduce the impacts of the pandemic H1N1 2009 (pH1N1) influenza. This multi-center study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the...

results the mean age of children was 6.5 ± 4.2 years. the frequency of positive results for hbsag, anti-hbs and anti-hcv in all age groups were 12 (3.6%), 47 (14.2%) and 2 (0.6%), respectively. anti-hiv was not detected in any of the children's serum samples. the frequency of positive results for hbsag was significantly higher in children older than six years than in other age groups. conclusio...

Mass-Vaccination Sites Covid-19 vaccination poses challenges that complicate the traditional reliance on primary care delivery. Mass-vaccination sites offer a logical solution, and early adopters h...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the causative agent in cervical cancer and has been implicated in a range of other malignancies. Preventative vaccines are now internationally available and provide high levels of protection from common viral strains. The introduction of a comprehensive vaccination programme (except 'program' in computers) could prevent over 60% of current cervical cancer cases, bu...

OBJECTIVE To describe an adapted version of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) methodology for rapid monitoring of vaccination coverage and its use as a supervisory tool to guide decision-making and strategies for end-stage vaccination activities ("mop-up" operations) following a six-week national rubella elimination campaign in Brazil. METHODS Vaccination coverage assessments modele...

In February 2013, following the successful establishment of the National Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Program for females in Australia in 2007,1,2 the program was extended to males. This followed a recommendation by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee that extension of the quadrivalent HPV vaccine program to males would be acceptably cost-effective compared with female only...

BACKGROUND Rotavirus vaccine is recommended for all infants in Canada. To evaluate the logistics of implementing a universal rotavirus vaccination program, we compared the effectiveness of program implementation in jurisdictions with either a physician-administered or public health nurse-administered program. METHODS All infants born between October 1, 2010 and September 30, 2012 in Prince Ed...

background: molecular epidemiology of measles virus (mv) is important, not only to measure the success of measles vaccination programs but also to monitor the circulation and elimination of the virus worldwide. in this study, we compared mv obtained from patients before the 2003 mass vaccination mr campaign and viruses detected after 2003 until 2008 in iran. methods: the nucleoprotein (n) gene ...