ABOUT THE AUTHORS: C. Wiysonge is a medical epidemiologist and Vaccinology Programme Manager at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He previously worked for the Expanded Programme on Immunisation in Cameroon and has been a consultant on vaccines and immunisation for WHO and the GAVI Alliance. Z. Waggie is a Paediatrician and Senior ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the policy and practice of district health authorities in England and Wales for BCG immunisation in schoolchildren and neonates. DESIGN Self completion postal questionnaire survey. PARTICIPANTS District immunisation coordinators. SETTING 199 district health authorities in England and Wales. RESULTS Questionnaires were received from 186 districts, a response rate o...

The long-term success of New Zealand’s Covid-19 elimination plan and the re-opening fortress Zealand rests on high population uptake vaccine. Understanding factors that contribute to vaccine hesitancy – potential inequities in access are consequently essential for efficacy national immunisation programme which began rolling out general July 2021. Prior research context has documented socio-demo...

Shabir A Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand/Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit; and Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases; University of the Witwatersrand. Correspondence to: Shabir A Madhi, Old Potch Road, Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital, Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, New...

Insights into health communication This systematic literature review was commissioned by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) as one of the outputs of the Framework Partnership Agreement Grant/2009/007 'Establishing a programme for dissemination of evidence-based health communication activities and innovations on communicable diseases for country Support in the EU and E...

The National Immunisation Program Schedule in Australia is formulated and funded nationally under the population-wide Medicare system. The policy is implemented by the eight state and territory jurisdictions. The national immunisation registers consist of the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR), and, more recently, the National Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Program Regist...

As a measure to curb the deadly Covid-19 virus, Malaysian government has implemented National Immunisation Programme (PICK) in early February 2021 achieve herd immunity by 2022. However, several factors have influenced success of programme, including accessibility, role social media, religious concerns and variety other reasons. Therefore, this paper determines that influence perceptions youth ...

BACKGROUND The availability of new vaccines can prompt policy makers to consider changes to the routine childhood immunisation programme in the UK. Alterations to one aspect of the schedule may have implications for other areas of the programme (e.g. adding more injections could reduce uptake of vaccines featuring later in the schedule). Colleagues at the Department of Health (DH) in the UK the...