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Links to Related Sites
All Kids Count (AKC)
(exit site)
The All Kids Count program administers projects to develop immunization
monitoring and follow-up systems for preschool children.
Children's
Vaccine Program
(exit site)
(Gates CVP) was established to promote equal access to lifesaving
vaccines worldwide. This site provides information on advocacy
issues, clinical issues, service delivery, immunization financing,
safe injections, other related organizations, etc.
Brighton
Collaboration
(exit site)
A collaboration developing standardized case
definitions of Adverse Events Following Immunization
(AEFIs) to improve immunization safety monitoring
and research.
Children's
Hospital - Vaccine Education Center
(exit
site)
The Center, seeks to dispel some of the common
misconceptions and misinformation surrounding
childhood vaccines. The goal is to communicate
the facts about each vaccine as well as how
vaccines are made, how and why vaccines work,
who recommends them, whether they are safe,
whether they are still necessary, and when
they should be given. The Center is staffed
by a team of scientists, physicians, and parents;
the director is Paul A. Offit, M.D.
CDC
Travel Information
Reference material for international travel, including vaccine
recommendations for travel to various countries.
CDC’s
Division of Viral Hepatitis
Information about hepatitis.
Every
Child by Two (ECBT)
(exit site)
The goals of ECBT are to raise awareness of the critical need
for timely immunization and foster putting in place a systematic
way to immunize all of America's children by the age of two.
Guide
to Community Preventive Services
(exit site)
Evidence-based strategies for improving and
maintaining vaccine coverage in children, adolescents,
and adults.
Global
Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
(exit site)
A partnership dedicated to ensuring that
all children, however poor, have equal access to vaccines.
Immunization
Action Coalition (IAC)
(exit site)
Abundant useful information about immunization, including information
about immunization resources and their newsletter "Needle
Tips."
Immunization Gateway
(exit site)
Links to many expert immunization resources available on the
Internet, conveniently organized by category.
Institute for Vaccine Safety
(exit site)
Information on vaccines currently in the media including: anthrax,
hepatitis B, MMR, polio, rotavirus, thimerosal, varicella, and
yellow fever.
National
Coalition for Adult Immunization (NCAI)
(exit site)
Information about adult and adolescent immunization, including
the NCAI’s newsletter "Coalition News."
National
Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID)
(exit site)
Information on the
research of causes, cures, and prevention of infectious diseases,
public and professional education programs, immunization publications,
etc.
National
Network for Immunization Information (NNii)
(exit site)
Information for the public, health professionals, policymakers,
and the media about immunization. Site includes immunization
news, a vaccine information database, and a guide to evaluating
vaccination information on the Web.
National
Partnership for Immunization (NPI)
(exit site)
Regularly features information such as general vaccine information,
state requirements, bioterrorism, vaccine safety, immunization
registry, state health profiles, etc.
National
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
(exit site)
Information about a federal program that provides compensation
for people who may have been seriously injured by vaccines.
National
Vaccine Program Office (NVPO)
General information about vaccines and immunization-related
activities at the federal level.
National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(NIAID) Jordan Report
(exit site)
An overview of vaccine research and development.
Vaccine
Information (another site from IAC)
(exit site)
Information about vaccine-preventable diseases
for the public and health professionals.
World
Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme for Vaccines and
Immunization
(exit site)
Information about global polio eradication and other world-wide
immunization issues.
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