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Malaria vaccine: WHO position paper, January 2016 - Recommendations.
- Source :
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Vaccine [Vaccine] 2018 Jun 14; Vol. 36 (25), pp. 3576-3577. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Apr 03. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This article presents the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations on the use of malaria vaccine excerpted from the WHO position paper on malaria vaccine published in the Weekly epidemiological Record in January 2016 [1]. The current document is the first WHO position paper on malaria vaccination and focuses primarily on the available evidence concerning the only malaria vaccine having received a positive regulation assessment from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) [2]. The position paper gives consideration to the epidemiological features of the disease and assesses the potential use of the vaccine for public health benefits. Footnotes to this paper provide a number of core references including references to grading tables that assess the quality of the scientific evidence, and to the evidence to recommendation table. In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to Member States on health policy matters, WHO issues a series of regularly updated position papers on vaccines and combinations of vaccines against diseases that have an international public health impact. These papers are concerned primarily with the use of vaccines in large-scale immunization programmes; they summarize essential background information on diseases and vaccines, and conclude with WHO's current position on the use of vaccines in the global context. This paper reflects the joint recommendation of the WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on immunization and the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC). These recommendations were discussed by SAGE and MPAC at the October 2015 SAGE meeting. Evidence presented at the meeting can be accessed at http://www.who.int/immunization/sage/previous/en/index.html.<br /> (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- Humans
Immunization Schedule
Malaria, Falciparum immunology
Malaria, Falciparum parasitology
Pilot Projects
Plasmodium falciparum immunology
Plasmodium falciparum pathogenicity
Practice Guidelines as Topic
World Health Organization
Health Policy
Immunization Programs organization & administration
Malaria Vaccines administration & dosage
Malaria, Falciparum prevention & control
Vaccination methods
Vaccines, Synthetic administration & dosage
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1873-2518
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 25
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Vaccine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28385607
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.10.047