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Vaccination enrollment requirements are an important tool used to improve vaccination coverage among school-aged children. However, all states permit varying exemptions that allow students to stay enrolled without receiving some (or all) vaccinations. In Arizona, schools are required to report vaccination data on their kindergarten and 6th grade st...
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The aims of this study are to validate infant vaccination data in the Swedish Vaccination Register (SVR) to the Swedish administrative coverage reports, and to assess differences in register-based vaccination coverage estimates between providers using different data reporting methods. The study population included all infants born in Sweden with a ...
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Some head and neck cancers are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). As HPV vaccination can prevent infection, an estimation of which HPV types have an active viral oncogene transcription in what proportion of tumors might allow estimation of the proportion of head & neck cancers preventable by HPV vaccination. We used all RNA sequencing data from ...
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RTS,S/AS01, the most advanced vaccine against malaria, is now undergoing pilot implementation in Malawi, Ghana, and Kenya where an estimated 360,000 children will be vaccinated each year. In this study we evaluate RTS,S/AS01 alongside bed net use and estimate cost-effectiveness. RTS,S/AS01 phase III trial and bed net prevalence data were used to de...
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This article examines the inequality patterns in childhood vaccination coverage at various socio-economic levels using all four rounds of nationally representative National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) in India. The analytic sample restricted to the most recent singleton surviving children aged 12-23 months in each survey, was 11,599 in NFHS-1 (199...
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Poor stock management has been identified as one of the causes of vaccine stock-outs in health facilities. This study assessed the occurrence of vaccine stock-outs and vaccine stock management practices in primary health care facilities in OR Tambo district of the Eastern Cape province, South Africa. Descriptive cross-sectional study design was use...
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Vaccines designed for use in pregnancy and vaccine trials specifically involving pregnant women are rapidly expanding. One of the key challenges in designing maternal immunization trials is that developing exclusion criteria requires understanding and quantifying the background risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes in the pregnancy being studied, whi...
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Background Availability of affordable inactivated polio vaccines (IPV) is of major importance to meet the increasing global supply needs. The results presented here demonstrate non-inferiority of a reduced-dose, aluminium hydroxide-adjuvanted IPV (IPV-Al) to standard IPV. Methods A phase 3, observer-blinded, randomised, clinical trial was conducted...
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The UK Government recognised the importance of vaccines in the control of new emerging disease threats and in 2015 established the UK Vaccine Network to focus on specific areas of need. One of these was the understanding of what is involved in the development of a new vaccine and what are the potential bottlenecks to a rapid response in the face of...
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SARS-CoV-2 is the cause of the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 that has been characterized as a pandemic by the WHO. Since the first report of COVID-19 on December 31, 2019, 179,111 cases were confirmed in 160 countries/regions with 7,426 deaths as of March 17, 2020. However, there have been no vaccines approved in the world to date. In this study, ...
