Indonesia will conduct two more mass immunization campaigns, in September and November.
Mass immunization campaigns against polio have been conducted in Afghanistan since 1994, with the United Nations successfully negotiating "days of tranquillity" to reach more children.
This is advantageous for mass immunization campaigns for global public health threats, e.g., tuberculosis (TB), and offers cheaper vaccine distribution.
Efficient implementation of the global eradication strategies consisting of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance and mass immunization campaigns led to interruption of indigenous wild poliovirus transmission in Cameroon in 1999.
Today, thanks to mass immunization campaigns and lifestyle changes, the number of JE cases in Japan has dropped significantly and the name feels like a misnomer.
Monovalent vaccines have undergone preclinical and clinical development prior to initiation of mass immunization campaigns.
Two mass immunization campaigns were carried out in the Basque Country in the last 12 years (1997 2008).
Jet injectors delivering the vaccine to the intradermal, subcutaneous or intramuscular cavities through high pressure nozzles have been implemented with variable success in mass immunization campaigns.
Besides mass immunization campaigns in response to epidemic outbreaks and planned routine childhood immunization programmes, yellow fever vaccination is used for preventive immunization of travellers to endemic regions [6].
The aim of this study was to identify the distribution of clones and the diversity of disease-associated isolates of Neisseria meningitidis collected over a 12-year period in a region of northern Spain (the Basque Country) where two mass immunization campaigns have been carried out in the last few years.
Second, the simple logistics of oral vaccines are highly compatible with mass immunization campaigns [ 19, 20].
