No safety signals related to this
immunization strategy were seen during 1 year of follow-up of infants and 6 months for the mothers.
In the present scenario, thanks to prompt action taken by the World Health Organization and authorities in Pakistan, a safe new conjugate vaccine against typhoid has been approved, and an emergency campaign was conducted in Hyderabad to vaccinate all children below 5 years of age.4 Significantly, the vaccine is being incorporated in Pakistan's Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) schedule.1 While these efforts are appreciated, any
immunization strategy will face several challenges.
Munir Ahmed briefed the delegation about present and future
immunization strategy. Dr.
Preventive measures for pneumonia in children has also been included as an essential component of the National Routine
Immunization Strategy and within its framework, the Pakistan Expanded Program on Immunization provides free of cost vaccines for prevention against Hib, pneumococcus, measles and whooping cough (pertussis) diseases in all government health facilities.
The appropriate
immunization strategy is also very important for controlling the spread of the virus.
A comprehensive
immunization strategy to eliminate transmission of hepatitis B virus infection in the United States: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) part 1: immunization of infants, children, and adolescents.
(28) Other vaccines that are under development to be part of a maternal
immunization strategy to protect the newborn and young infant include vaccines against group B streptococcus, (29) respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), (30) and cytomegalovirus (CMV).
Barriers to access can include the accessibility of clinics and the availability of family doctors, which is recognized in the document "Alberta
Immunization Strategy 2007-2017".
Brazil implemented a school-based
immunization strategy for the HPV vaccine to ensure greater access to the target population.
proposed a new
immunization strategy based on a stochastic hill-climbing algorithm to create a subset of nodes whose immunization efficiently reduced the network vulnerability to worst-case epidemics [9].
In this study, we used genotype analysis to describe the measles outbreaks among adults in Beijing, and we suggest an
immunization strategy to help prevent similar outbreaks in the future.