FEBRUARY 8, 2023 HOT TOPICSAIRA's Discovery Session: IIS 101 | Register Today! Join us for the next AIRA Discovery Session on Monday, February 27 at 4 p.m. ET.During this session, you'll learn about the basics of an IIS and how IIS are a powerful tool for supporting healthier communities.New staff, existing sta...
Gearing up to stop polio in Afghanistan and PakistanIn October 2022, the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Afghanistan and Pakistan met in Muscat, Oman, to conduct a thorough review of ongoing polio eradication efforts in the remaining polio endemic countries. During the 6-day meeting they also provided strategic ...
FEBRUARY 1, 2023I hope you’re having a great week. It’s an exciting one for AIRA, as I am thrilled to introduce the very first edition of the AIRA Weekly Update. This new publication will allow us to consolidate the various email messages we send out several times per week plus the AIRA Monthly Update into a single weekly emai...
This weekly report provides key highlights and operational recommendations based on social media monitoring from January 30- February 6 in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa, as well as relevant information on current mis/disinformation. https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2023-02/AIRA%20Infodemic%20Trends%20Report%20-%20Januar...
News from PATH on vaccine developmentJanuary 2023|SubscribeIn this issue A public health value proposition for prospective Shigella vaccines Inventprise’s expanded-coverage pneumococcal vaccine enters the clinic Thailand-produced COVID-19 vaccine ...
This weekly report provides key highlights and operational recommendations based on social media monitoring from January 23-30 in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa, as well as relevant information on current mis/disinformation. https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2023-02/AIRA%20Infodemic%20Trends%20Report%20-%20January%2023-30...
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Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 in SudanOn 18 December 2022, the WHO received a notification on the detection of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in a 48-month-old male with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), from West Darfur, Western Sudan. Sequencing results showed that the isolate...
Volume 16, Issue 12 - December 2022The Measles and Rubella Bulletin is a monthly publication reporting progress towards achieving measles and rubella elimination in the Western Pacific Region. Inside each issue, we present the latest reported data by country on measles and rubella incidence, surveillance performanc...
This weekly report provides key highlights and operational recommendations based on social media monitoring from January 16-23 in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa, as well as relevant information on current mis/disinformation. https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2023-01/AIRA%20Infodemic%20Trends%20Report%20-%20January%2016-23...
MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity JANUARY 2023: ISSUE 3 Gender and Immunization: Recognizing and Reducing Barriers When a mother in Mozambique’s Nampula Province was asked why her child was only partially vaccinated, she replied that the last time she brought her child for immunization, the clinic had run o...
Vaccine-derived polio virus detected in 2 Canadian wastewater samplesAfter initiating its own wastewater testing for polio last year, Canada has detected two samples of vaccine-derived polio virus type 2 (VDPV2). According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)’s epidemio...
This weekly report provides key highlights and operational recommendations based on social media monitoring from January 9-16 in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa, as well as relevant information on current mis/disinformation. https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2023-01/AIRA%20Infodemic%20Trends%20Report%20-%20January%209-16%2...
Monthly Update December 2022 in Review www.immregistries.org In This Issue: Executive Director's UpdateAIRA 2023 National Meeting AnnouncementAIRA's Board Meeting in Pittsburgh Measurement & Improvement UpdatesNeeds Assessment for Readiness to Submit Routine and Influenza DataEpi Shared Services (ESS) Is in Full Swing! Don't Miss Ou...
November / December EYE Strategy NewsletterDear partners and colleagues, We hope you have had a restful holiday season and a great start to the new year.We were delighted to see so many of you at the 6th EYE Annual Partners’ Meeting in November last year. It was another successful meeting with close to ...
This weekly report provides key highlights and operational recommendations based on social media monitoring from January 2-9 in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa, as well as relevant information on current mis/disinformation. https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2023-01/AIRA%20Infodemic%20Trends%20Report%20-%20January%202-9%202...
This weekly report provides key highlights and operational recommendations based on social media monitoring from December 26-January 2 in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa, as well as relevant information on current mis/disinformation. https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2023-01/AIRA%20Infodemic%20Trends%20Report%20-December%2...
An update from the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership ...
Polio experts eye clear tactics in final push to achieve success2022 may well go down in history as the year of contrasts in the global effort to eradicate polio. At first glance, with polio detections in places such as New York and London and an increase in cases in Pakistan, it may seem that the effort is backsli...
The holiday season has arrived and so has the December 2022 edition of SnapShots, AIRA’s quarterly newsletter that highlights the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS. This edition of SnapShots features articles on an influential individual in AIRA’s history, effectively planning your IIS hiring, improving IIS data quali...