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Pan American Health Organization
The tenth anniversary of Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) will be celebrated from 21-28 April 2012.
VWA is an extraordinary effort led by the countries and territories of the Region to advance equity and access to vaccination. VWA activities strengthen the national immunization programs in the Americas by reaching out to populations with little access to regular health services, such as those populations living in urban fringes, rural and border areas and in indigenous communities. Since its inception in 2003, more than 365 million individuals of all ages have been vaccinated during campaigns conducted under the framework of VWA.
The initiative also provides a platform to raise population awareness regarding the importance of immunization and to keep the topic on the forefront of political agendas. To learn more about VWA and the celebrations planned for 2012, please follow the links on this page, which will be updated regularly. Other regions of the World Health Organization (WHO) have also established their own successful Vaccination/Immunization Week initiatives and 2012 will mark the first celebration of World Immunization Week (WIW) which will serve as an over-arching framework to unite all global efforts. Please click here to read an op-ed by PAHO?s Director, Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, in the Global Health Council?s magazine on the evolution of Vaccination Week in the Americas.
http://new.paho.org/vwa/
The tenth anniversary of Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) will be celebrated from 21-28 April 2012.
VWA is an extraordinary effort led by the countries and territories of the Region to advance equity and access to vaccination. VWA activities strengthen the national immunization programs in the Americas by reaching out to populations with little access to regular health services, such as those populations living in urban fringes, rural and border areas and in indigenous communities. Since its inception in 2003, more than 365 million individuals of all ages have been vaccinated during campaigns conducted under the framework of VWA.
The initiative also provides a platform to raise population awareness regarding the importance of immunization and to keep the topic on the forefront of political agendas. To learn more about VWA and the celebrations planned for 2012, please follow the links on this page, which will be updated regularly. Other regions of the World Health Organization (WHO) have also established their own successful Vaccination/Immunization Week initiatives and 2012 will mark the first celebration of World Immunization Week (WIW) which will serve as an over-arching framework to unite all global efforts. Please click here to read an op-ed by PAHO?s Director, Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, in the Global Health Council?s magazine on the evolution of Vaccination Week in the Americas.
http://new.paho.org/vwa/