POST 00742E : HEPb VACCINATION : REGIONAL STRATEGIES

POST 00742E : HEPb VACCINATION : REGIONAL STRATEGIES Follow-up to Post 00734E 14 January 2005 _____________________________________ NOTE: This message was sent on Friday 14th of January. For a mysterious reason, it didn't reach LISTSERV thus went unsent to members. It didn't go through on a second attempt. Let's see if it works on the third. Our apologies! I just don't understand what's going on. Andrea Vicari (mailto:[email protected]) from PAHO is responding to Ricardo Morales Moreno on issues he raised about Hepatitis B immunization by sending the attached document that is in Spanish first, followed by English below. Steve Wiersma (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO had also exchanged the following comment on the topic, a brief summary of WHO's position. _____________________________________ According to our HepB position paper (http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/P ... er7928.pdf), we would recommend universal infant immunization in all areas without screening of maternal HepB status. In full-term infants, protection against perinatally acquired infection achieved by immediate ( You will find instructions to subscribe, a direct access to archives, links to reference documents and other features. ______________________________________________________________________________ To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message to : mailto:[email protected] Leave the subject area BLANK In the message body, write unsubscribe TECHNET21E ______________________________________________________________________________ The World Health Organization and UNICEF support TechNet21. The TechNet21 e-Forum is a communication/information tool for generation of ideas on how to improve immunization services. It is moderated by Claude Letarte and is hosted in cooperation with the Centre de internationale en sant, Canada (http://www.ccisd.org) ______________________________________________________________________________ ##text##