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The Immunization Action Coalition |
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| The Immunization Action
Coalition (IAC) works to increase immunization rates and prevent disease
by creating and distributing educational materials for health
professionals and the public that enhance the delivery of safe and
effective immunization services. The Coalition also facilitates
communication about the safety, efficacy, and use of vaccines within the
broad immunization community of patients, parents, healthcare
organizations, and government health agencies. |
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| For more than two decades, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has worked in concert
with and provided financial support to IAC for the purpose of educating
health professionals about U.S. vaccine recommendations. CDC recognized
IAC's accomplishments in 1997 by awarding it the prestigious Partners in
Public Health Award for efforts "instrumental in achieving high levels of
routine infant hepatitis B immunization." |
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| Physicians, nurses, and other
healthcare professionals at every level of the immunization community,
including both the public and private sectors, rely on many of the
following projects in their daily work to increase immunization rates
across the age span. |
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Website for Health Professionals www.immunize.org
Launched in 1994, one of the earliest websites devoted to
immunization,
www.immunize.org is the largest resource for practical,
user-friendly immunization information available today,
serving more than 25,000 visitors per day. The website
houses all of IAC's informational handouts, which are
available free of charge, and users are encouraged to
reproduce and redistribute the materials. This website also
makes available all Vaccine Information Statements (VISs)
published in the United States in up to 30 languages and some
alternative formats. Users
download more than 6 million ready-to-copy (PDF)
documents from the website annually. IAC makes daily additions and
updates to the content of
www.immunize.org. |
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Website for the Public www.vaccineinformation.org
Developed in consultation with CDC, this website for patients,
parents, providers, and the media presents straightforward
information about vaccine-preventable diseases and their
vaccines. Launched in August 2002 with sole funding from CDC,
it currently serves about 5.000 visitors per day. The website
contains information about vaccine safety and the overall
importance of immunization, featuring hundreds of
vaccine-preventable disease photos and video clips. |
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Immunization Coalitions
Network www.immunizationcoalitions.org
Launched in 2001 as www.izcoalitions.org, this website provides access to an online
database of local, state, regional, national, and
international immunization coalitions. The website enables
cooperation and sharing of news and resources between
coalition members. The database also allows
healthcare professionals, parents, and other immunization
advocates to contact immunization coalitions for resources,
ideas, or volunteering. |
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Needle Tips
(NT)
From its first issue in 1994 through the December 2008 issue, IAC
distributed more than 4.25 million paper copies of NT, as many as 235,000
copies per issue, delivered to virtually every pediatrician, family
physician, and pediatric nurse practitioner nationwide, as well as to
every local and state health department. A move to online-only publication
occurred with the first issue of 2009. NT ranges from 16 to 28
pages, is
CDC-reviewed, and is published four times annually. Frontline healthcare professionals
rely on NT for its up-to-date, practice-oriented information on the
recommendations for childhood, adolescent, and adult immunization. NT is
the only publication of its kind in the United States. Current and past
issues are available on our website at www.immunize.org/nt. |
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Vaccinate Adults
(VA)
Like NT, VA converted to online publication in 2009. It was first
published in 1997, and more than 2.8 million paper copies were
distributed to an average of 160,000 adult medicine specialists per issue.
VA ranges from 12 to 24 pages and is published four times per
year targeted at internal
medicine specialists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, infectious disease
specialists, occupational medicine specialists, nephrologists, and
geriatricians. Every issue is CDC-reviewed and provides succinctly written
descriptions of adult immunization recommendations. Current and past
issues are available on our website at www.immunize.org/va. |
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IAC Express
(IACX)
Currently emailed free of charge to more than 50,000 opt-in
subscribers every Wednesday, IACX provides up-to-date
information about FDA vaccine approvals, new Advisory Committee
on Immunization Practices vaccine
recommendations, newly released Vaccine Information
Statements, new immunization resources and current events, and
journal articles. Frontline healthcare professionals, as
well as local and state health departments, rely on IACX for
the critical information they need in their day-to-day work. The current issue as well as the more than 1,250 issues
published since IACX's inception in 1997 are available online
at
www.immunize.org/express. |
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Ask the Experts
Ask the Experts is a recurring feature of Needle Tips,
Vaccinate Adults, IAC Express, and
www.immunize.org in which CDC experts answer challenging and
timely questions about vaccines and their administration. More
than 1,000 Q&As are available online at
www.immunize.org/askexperts. |
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Unprotected People
(UP)
Reports
Since 1998, IAC has collected and published personal stories and case
reports of people who have suffered or died from vaccine-preventable
diseases (VPDs). We believe that UP reports are extremely
important in providing parents, the media, and clinicians the
information they need to help balance discussions on the value
of vaccines. These reports can be particularly effective in
countering stories claiming harm from vaccines. More than 100
reports are available online at
www.immunize.org/reports. |
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Handouts (Educational
materials for staff and patients)
IAC is the most relied-upon source of CDC-reviewed
immunization materials for healthcare professionals and their
patients, providing more than three million downloads annually. We create, update, and distribute more than 250 separate
educational pieces including such widely used and reprinted
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- Summary of Recommendations for Childhood and Adolescent
Immunization
- Summary of Recommendations for Adult Immunization
- Screening Questionnaire for Child and Teen Immunization
- Screening Questionnaire for Adult Immunization
- How to Administer IM and SC Injections
- Immunizations for Babies: A Guide for Parents
- When Do Children and Teens Need Vaccinations?
- Vaccine Administration Record for Children and Teens
CDC's 2015 The Pink Book
(Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases)
includes 6 reprinted IAC pieces as well as links to IAC's
resources. All educational materials are available online free
of charge at
www.immunize.org/handouts. We have translated many of our
patient/parent pieces into Spanish and some into six additional
languages: Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, and
French. |
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Translations of Vaccine Information Statements (VISs)
Since 2011, IAC has served as the CDC-funded national
repository for translations of Vaccine Information Statements
which federal law requires be handed to every person at the
time they receive a vaccination. The IAC library of VIS
translations includes more than 30 languages. Comprehensive
and easy to navigate access to the library is available at
www.immunize.org/vis. |
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Hepatitis B: What
Hospitals Need to Do to Protect Newborns Guide
This comprehensive
guidebook is a complete resource for helping
hospitals and birthing centers establish, implement, and
optimize their birth dose policies. |
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Immunization Techniques: Best Practices with Infants, Children, and Adults (DVD)
Created by the California Department of Public Health, Immunization Branch, 2010, this 25-minute training
video teaches best practices for administering injectable, oral, and nasal vaccines to people of all ages. |
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Laminated
Immunization Schedules
Official immunization schedules for
children (0-18 years old) and
adults. Both are laminated and
washable for heavy-duty use, complete with essential footnotes,
and printed in color for easy reading. |
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Personal Immunization Record Cards
In collaboration with CDC, and with input from several state health
departments, IAC has created three versions of a personal
immunization
record card for recording vaccination histories.
Versions are available for children, adults, and
across-the-age-span use. |
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The Vaccine
Handbook - "The Purple Book"
The
5th edition of The Vaccine Handbook: A Practical Guide
for Clinicians ("The Purple Book") is considered a vital
source of practical, up-to-date information for vaccine
providers and educators. |
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This page was updated on
July 8, 2016
This page was reviewed on
July 8, 2016 |
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Immunization Action Coalition • 2550 University Avenue West • Suite 415 North • Saint Paul, Minnesota • 55114 |
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This website is supported in part by a cooperative agreement from the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (Grant No.
6NH23IP22550) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA. The website content is the sole responsibility of IAC and does not necessarily represent the official views of CDC. |
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