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Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:43 0 Comments 0 Likes
Hi everyone,
I edit the Vaccines Today website and we are planning to open a new section in the coming months called Your Stories.
The idea is simple: we want more personal stories from guest authors about their experience with vaccination. We're looking for contributions from parents, doctors, researchers, public health officials, campaigners and anyone else with a story to tell.
Many…
Continue Posted on July 12, 2012 at 16:29 0 Comments 0 Likes
When European governments’ credit ratings were downgraded it became more expensive to raise money for health development projects
For the past six years, the GAVI Alliance has been raising money on financial markets through the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm). This is achieved by selling…
Continue Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:04 0 Comments 1 Like
Hi everyone,
Vaccines Today is launching a new competition designed to get students (particularly, but not exclusively, medical students) interested in immunisation issues.
This is the first (and pilot) edition of the Communication Challengebut we hope it could be expanded next year. We are looking for a fun and creative communication concept which can enhance…
Continue Posted on May 14, 2012 at 9:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
Celebrities have been blamed for pedalling inaccurate information to the public about vaccines. So should pro-vaccine celebrities be mobilised to undo the damage?
Doctors and public health authorities have been…
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ECDC said… Dear Gary,
Thank you for your comment.
Many EU Members States achieved measles and rubella elimination years ago according the WHO definitions in Eliminating Measles and Rubella: Framework for the verification process in the WHO European region. In the WHO document, disease elimination is defined as: the absence of endemic measles or rubella cases in a defined geographical area for a period of at least 12 months or more, in the presence of a well performing surveillance system; and endemic transmission is defined as: the existence of continuous transmission of indigenous or imported measles or rubella virus that persists for a period of 12 months or more in any defined geographical area.
Although many EU Members States fulfil these two criteria for elimination, measles is an extremely contagious disease. The large number of people moving freely between EU countries means that it is necessary to look at the bigger picture and consider the EU as one geographical area when it comes to measles and rubella elimination.
Achieving measles elimination in the EU by 2015 is still possible but it will be a formidable task.
WHO/Europe said… Hi Gary,
We're working on the webcasting for the regional launch and will share a link if/when we have one. If we don't end up streaming live, the footage will be available the day after the event. We'll keep you posted...
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Copenhagen Post 14.4.13Brick by Brick | Do yourself – and others – a favour: Get vaccinatedI have just performed one of the most responsible acts of citizenship available to me in the modern world. It wasn’t voting, or writing to the City Hall or…Continue
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At the opening of a recent high-level conference in Budapest, the WHO Regional Director for Europe Zsuzsanna Jakob…Continue
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