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                                                                Ethical perspectives on a future vaccination program against COVID-19 in Germany
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                1000 days communication initiative to fight against child stunting | In an effort to accelerate the elimination of stunting among children, Ministry of Health and UNICEF created a series of posters, booklet, radio spot and videos to educate and inform families and communities. The five pillars of ke...y behaviors are breastfeeding, timely initiation of complementary feeding with balance diet, balanced diet for pregnant women, immunizations and handwashing. 
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                                                                This document, issued by the United Nations Medical Directors in July 2021, outlines vaccination and malaria prophylaxis recommendations for UN personnel travelling on official business and UN healthcare workers. The guidance aims to minimise the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases and malaria by f...ocusing on three key areas:(1) routine vaccines, such as those for influenza, measles, polio, hepatitis B, varicella and SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes the disease known as 'Covid-19'), which are recommended for all staff regardless of their destination;
(2) destination-based measures, including mandatory vaccines (e.g. yellow fever, meningitis and polio), recommended vaccines depending on regional risks (e.g. cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A and rabies) and WHO-advised malaria prevention through mosquito protection and chemoprophylaxis. The third area covers vaccines for healthcare workers with direct patient or laboratory exposure, including hepatitis B, influenza, diphtheria, pertussis and others. The recommendations emphasise the importance of pre-travel medical consultations, adherence to host country requirements, and individualised risk assessments.
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                                                                If you are fully vaccinated can you still get COVID-19? How frequent are breakthrough infections and what does COVID-19 look like if you are fully vaccinated. WHO’s Dr Kate O’Brien explains in Science in 5.
No matter whether you are vaccinated against #COVID19 or are still waiting, keep followi...ng these precautions to protect yourself and others:
- Avoid crowds
- Keep physical distance
- Open windows
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                                                                Eur Respir J 2014; 43: 24–35 | DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00113413
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                you can find branded materials including immunization backgrounders, posters, social media posts and more to amplify your existing activities and facilitate any communications for the week. Please feel free to tailor and adapt materials to meet specific country 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Mobile vaccination teams visiting long-term care homes will have an important role in providing  vaccination  coverage  for  some  of  the  most vulnerable  population  sub-groups.  However,  based  on  the  experiences  of  German  mobile  diagnostic  teams during  the  first  COVID-19  pandemic  w...ave,  the  deployment  of  mobile  vaccination teams to care homes for older adults and people with disabilities is expected to raise various ethical challenges.
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Triccas and Counoupas Pneumonia (2016) 8:18; DOI 10.1186/s41479-016-0020-z
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
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JCI Insight. 2017;2(7):e91963. 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                In this document, recommendations are provided on designing and implementing 
a cross-sectional serosurvey using school-based sampling to estimate age-specific 
DENV seroprevalence to inform a country’s national dengue vaccination program. 
The document includes recommendations for methods for ...planning and conducting 
serosurveys, including survey design, specimen collection, laboratory testing, data 
analysis, and the interpretation and reporting of results.
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Tuberculosis Research and Treatment; Volume 2011, Article ID 712736, 6 pages, doi:10.1155/2011/712736
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                La vaccination est un service de santé essentiel qui protège les sujets sensibles contre les maladies à prévention vaccinale (MPV).2   La  vaccination en  temps  voulu  permet  aux  individus  et  aux  communautés  de  rester  protégés  et  diminue  la  probabilité d’une poussée épidémi...que de MPV.
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                                                                Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted, reliable sources of health information for millions of people worldwide. They play a vital role in promoting healthy behaviors, including global vaccination efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. However, CHWs often lack adequate support to effe...ctively increase vaccine confidence.
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                                                                Pan African Medical Journal. 2016; 25:213 doi:10.11604/pamj.2016.25.213.88
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Rabies is a public health problem in Asia and vaccine affordability is an issue.
There is no reduction in the number of persons seeking post-exposure prophylaxis.
The high cost of cell culture vaccines for intramuscular use is a limiting factor.
Intradermal rabies vaccination offers cost-effectiv...e alternative to intramuscular.
WHO recommended one week intradermal schedule will ensure good patient compliance.
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                                                                Humanitarian emergencies result in a breakdown of critical health-care services and often make vulnerable communities dependent on external agencies for care. In resource-constrained settings, this may occur against a backdrop of extreme poverty, malnutrition, insecurity, low literacy and poor infra...structure. Under these circumstances, providing food, water and shelter and limiting communicable disease outbreaks become primary concerns. Where effective and safe vaccines are available to mitigate the risk of disease outbreaks, their potential deployment is a key consideration in meeting emergency health needs. Ethical considerations are crucial when deciding on vaccine deployment. Allocation of vaccines in short supply, target groups, delivery strategies, surveillance and research during acute humanitarian emergencies all involve ethical considerations that often arise from the tension between individual and common good. The authors lay out the ethical issues that policy-makers need to bear in mind when considering the deployment of mass vaccination during humanitarian emergencies, including beneficence (duty of care and the rule of rescue), non-maleficence, autonomy and consent, and distributive and procedural justice
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