Mass measles vaccination starts; One-month-long campaign targets 9 million children.
Byline: Christina I. Hermoso The Department of Health (DoH) in partnership with local government units (LGUs) will mobilize some 10,000 vaccination teams nationwide starting today for the month-long mass measles immunization campaign targeting at least nine million Filipino children. Dubbed as "Knock Out Tigdas," the...

Taking a second look: immunization requirements for nursing students.
ABSTRACT To comply with clinical agency agreements, nursing administrators and faculty need to be attentive to the management of immunization requests, especially those that are divergent from CDC or state recommendations. As nursing students usually bear the cost of additional immunizations and testing, immunization requirements may represent a barrier...

ANA backgrounders: influenza season 2007-2008.
Upcoming Flu Vaccinations As the 2007-2008 Influenza season approaches, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has released their updated recommendations on the prevention and control of influenza. Despite an increase in vaccination coverage in recent years, estimated vaccinated coverage remains unacceptably...

Mandated Ill. hep B vaccination tops 90% goal.
A 1997 state requirement that all children in Illinois receive the hepatitis B vaccine series in order to enter the fifth grade has not only raised the rate of vaccination to more than 90% in a group of Chicago-area high school students but also has narrowed the vaccination disparity...

Vaccination goals for children being met.
Seventy-five percent of states are meeting Healthy People 2010 objectives for vaccinating kindergarteners, meaning at least 95 percent of those children are receiving recommended vaccines against hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and varicella. Summarized in a study in the Aug. 17 Morbidity and...

Child, teen immunization coverage mostly up.
Immunization coverage in 2006 for children aged 19-35 months held steady for most recommended vaccines and grew for several types, but more recent recommendations in coverage for adolescents aged 13-17 years have not yet reached the same levels of success, according to results from the most recent National Immunization...

Child immunization rates show growth.
Immunization coverage in 2006 for children aged 19-35 months held steady for most recommended vaccines and grew for several types, but more recent recommendations in coverage for adolescents aged 13-17 years have not yet reached the same levels of success, according to results from the most recent National Immunization...

Steady growth noted in immunization coverage.
Immunization coverage in 2006 for children aged 19-35 months held steady for most recommended vaccines and grew for several types, but more recent recommendations in coverage for adolescents aged 13-17 years have not yet reached the same levels of success, according to results from the most recent National Immunization...

Survey shows growth in adolescent vaccination.
Recent recommendations in coverage for adolescents aged 13-17 years have not yet reached the same levels of success as achieved in children aged 19-35 months, according to results from the most recent National Immunization Survey. Adolescents aged 13-17 years--who were included in the Centers for Disease Control...

Canadian government includes $258 million in budget for HPV vaccination.
The Canadian government announced that it is including about $258 million in the 2007-2008 budget to help pay for provincial HPV vaccination programmes. Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization has recommended that girls ages 9-13 be vaccinated against HPV, as well as older girls and women who might already...