New and Easy-to-Use Vaccines and Immunizations Web Site!

You spoke. We listened. The result is a new and easier to use Vaccines & Immunizations Web site!

CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) launched www.cdc.gov/vaccines on June 11, 2007. The site replaces www.cdc.gov/nip and features a new look, a new feel, and many more resources!

The Vaccines & Immunizations Web site format was redesigned using Web usability testing and your feedback. It has changed to a topic-driven layout that flows from the new CDC home page. This change in format makes it quicker and easier to find materials and critical answers to questions related to vaccines and immunizations for all our Web visitors:

• healthcare consumers and parents

• healthcare professionals

• immunization program managers

• media

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Check out the links on the left side of the page and the headings (also links) on the home page that access timely, accurate, and credible CDC vaccine and immunization information by subject or audience type:

Healthcare Consumers and Parents

• Immunization and vaccination basics NEW SECTION!
Includes what parents and individuals need to know about immunizations, answers to common questions such as why immunize? how do vaccines work?…
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/

• Vaccination records UPDATED!
Easier to find information on interpreting, recording, and finding your vaccination records...
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/immuniz-records.htm

• Resources for specific groups of people NEW FEATURE!
Resources for adults, children, pregnant women, travelers, international adoption, racial & ethnic populations, people with specific diseases/conditions…
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/spec-grps/

• Requirements and laws UPDATED!
Easier to find school and state vaccination requirements…
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/laws/

• Resources and answers for parents NEW SECTION!
What parents need to know, how vaccines prevent disease, common misconceptions, what risks are taken if you are not vaccinating your children, parents guide to immunizations…
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/spec-grps/parents.htm

• and much more…

Healthcare Professionals UPDATED!

• Healthcare professionals main page UPDATED!
Includes links to the materials and resources most asked for by providers and replaces the healthcare professionals home page.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp.htm

• Information about vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases EXTENSIVELY UPDATED!
Not only are they all easier to find, each vaccination page includes: a brief overview of the disease, questions and answers about vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccines, who should not be vaccinated, what happens after vaccination, photos of people affected by the disease, and more.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/

• Immunization and vaccination basics NEW SECTION!
Includes what parents and individuals need to know about immunizations, answers to common questions such as why immunize? how do vaccines work?…
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/

• Vaccination records UPDATED!
Easier to find information on interpreting, recording, and finding your vaccination records...
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/immuniz-records.htm

• Resources for specific groups of people NEW FEATURE!
Resources for adults, children, pregnant women, travelers, international adoption, racial & ethnic populations, people with specific diseases/conditions…
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/spec-grps/

• Requirements and laws UPDATED!
Easier to find school and state vaccination requirements…
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/laws/

• Resources and answers for parents NEW SECTION!
What parents need to know, how vaccines prevent disease, common misconceptions, what risks are taken if you are not vaccinating your children, parents guide to immunizations…
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/spec-grps/parents.htm

• and much more…

Immunization Program Managers

• Resources for immunization program managers NEW SECTION!
Now listed on one page
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/program-mgrs.htm

• Program and tools resources NEW SECTION!
Previously listed as links on the left side of the page, now all programs can be found via the Programs & Tools menu (VFC, CoCASA, AFIX, IIS, etc.)
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/

• and much more…

Media

• Materials and contact information for the media UPDATED!
Replaces previous Media home page
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/news/media.htm

• Resources for media on specific vaccine-preventable diseases & vaccines NEW SECTION!
Now available on some vaccine-preventable disease pages. For example:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/hpv/default.htm#media

• • and much more…

New features throughout site

• Site map NEW!
A listing of all major sections of the Vaccines & Immunizations site's contents
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/site-map.htm

• Quick links and related pages NEW!
The right column of every page lists "quick links" (which are commonly accessed pages) and on most pages "related pages" (listing of pages on same topic)

• Breadcrumb trails and return to main page NEW!
At the top of each page there is a horizontal "breadcrumb trail" that links back to each previous page navigated through in order to get to the current page. And, most pages have a link at the bottom that returns you to the main page of that topic.

Please note that all CDC vaccine safety information is now located at http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/

NCIRD is committed to bringing you the latest and most credible immunization information. Be sure to bookmark www.cdc.gov/vaccines and visit often, as improvements and innovations are ongoing. Experience the difference – visit our new site TODAY!