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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.
Safety of Injections 1999 : WHO-UNICEF joint statement on the
use of auto-disable syringes in immunization services (WHO/V&B/99.25)
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)
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.
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Part I. (2000: 30: pp 100-121)
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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
Children’s Health:
The Impact of Adult Deaths on Children’s Health in Northwestern
Tanzania.
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2266
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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