PAHO’s Immunization Unit and the WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals have published numerous documents, training courses, guidelines and other resources to support the daily operations of national immunization programs.
- Maternal and Neonatal Immunization: Field Guide (View / Download)
- Introduction and Implementation of New Vaccines: Field Guide (View / Download)
- Tailoring Immunization Programmes (View / Download)
- Manual for Surveillance of Events Supposedly Attributable to Vaccination or Immunization in the Region of the Americas (View / Download)
- Behavioural and social drivers of vaccination: tools and practical guidance for achieving high uptake (View / Download)
- Crisis Communication related to vaccine safety: technical guidance (View / Download)
- Tools for monitoring the coverage of integrated public health interventions. Vaccination and deworming of soil-transmitted helminthiasis (View / Download)
- Electronic Immunization Registry: Practical Considerations for Planning, Development, Implementation and Evaluation (View / Download)
- Diphtheria
- Haemophilus influenzae type B
- Hepatitis B
- Control of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, haemophilus influenzae type B, and Hepatitis B: Field guide (View / Download)
- Maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in Latin America and the Caribbean. Field Guide (View / Download)
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine
- Methodology to calculate HPV Vaccine Coverage in the Region of the Americas (View / Download)
- Measles
- Rubella
- Regional Framework for the Monitoring and Re-Verification of Measles, Rubella, and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Elimination in the Americas (View / Download)
- Measles and Rubella Risk Assessment Tool. User Guide (View / Download)
- Poliomyelitis
- Regional Plan for Containment of Poliovirus in the Americas. Regional-GAPIII (View / Download)
- Pneumococcus
- Meningococcus
- Surveillance of Bacterial Pneumonia and Meningitis in Children Aged Under 5 years: Field Guide (View / Download)
- Surveillance of Bacterial Pneumonia and Meningitis in Children Aged Under 5 Years: Field Guide. Second Edition (View / Download)
- Rotavirus
- Epidemiological Surveillance of Diarrheal Diseases Due to Rotavirus: Field Guide (View / Download)
- Yellow fever
- Control of yellow fever: Field guide (View / Download)
- Viscerotropic Disease Associated with Yellow Fever: Case Studies. Guide for Facilitator (View / Download)
- Viscerotropic Disease Associated with Yellow Fever: Case Studies. Guide for Participant (View / Download)
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- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Influenza
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Pneumococcus
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Polio
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Mumps
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Rubella, Congenital Rubella Syndrome
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Pertussis
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Yellow Fever
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Neonatal Tetanus
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Measles
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Rotavirus
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Hepatitis B
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Haemophilus Influenzae type B (Hib)
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Dengue
- 1999-2015 TAG recommendations for Cholera
