Immunization

Links

Partners

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
The GAVI Alliance is a unique organisation that aligns public and private resources in a global effort to create greater access to the benefits of immunisation. The site includes links to websites of GAVI partners as well as information on its funding mechanisms, technologies, types of financial and material support provided. The section on performance shows GAVI's progress against its goals.

International Vaccine Institute
The IVI is an international center of research, training and technical assistance for vaccine development against diseases such as cholera, shigellosis, and typhoid fever. Its research provides policymakers the evidence to introduce new-generation vaccines into the public health programmes for the poor in developing countries.

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
PATH has a vast online Vaccine Resource Library containing the best materials available on specific diseases and topics on immuniztion for use by health professionas, policy makers and parents. It includes documents from WHO, UNICEF, the US Centers for Disease Control and many other agencies organized by topic. Materials are available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish and other languages.

SIGN Alliance
SIGN is a voluntary coalition of stakeholders aiming to achieve safe and appropriate use of injections throughout the world and includes a toolbox of resources for immunization and injection safety.  The Essential Health Technologies (EH) department of the World Health Organization (WHO) provides the secretariat for the network.

The Communication Initiative
The Communication Initiative is a partnership of development organisations seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication interventions for positive international development, including immunization.

The Measles Initiative
The Measles Initiative is a partnership committed to controlling measles deaths in Africa by vaccinating 200 million children through both mass and follow-up campaigns in up to 36 Sub-Saharan African countries.

World Health Organization (WHO) Vaccines and Biologicals
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority on international health work. Its objective is "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health". The site provides policy, guidelines and information about vaccines, immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases.