Vaccines

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains a biological preparation from disease-causing microorganism, or since the beginning of the 21st century, made synthetically that resembles it. This preparation is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat and starts producing antibodies against it, so as to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in …

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Ontario College of Family Physicians · 17 November 2023 English

Family Physician Resources Physician-Patient Discussions Recommend influenza and COVID-19 vaccines for preventing severe illness. [...] COVID-19 Testing- Antiviral Treatments for COVID-19 and Influenza [...] Vaccine Update COVID Vaccines Influenza Vaccines Other vaccines you may want to offer to high-risk patients Patient Resource Make Sure You Are Up-to-date With Vaccines If Your Get Sick: Managing

Discussions ฀ Recommend influenza and COVID-19 vaccines for preventing severe illness. ฀ Identify and COVID-19. Vaccine Update ฀ COVID Vaccines ฀ Influenza Vaccines ฀ Other vaccines you may want to offer to high-risk Patient Resource ฀ Make Sure You Are Up-to-date With Vaccines ฀ If Your Get Sick: Managing Colds, RSV, Flu and


NCCID: National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases · 14 November 2023

For thousands of years, Toronto has been the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. [...] …

Canada) • Provides public health advice relating to vaccines used for the prevention of disease and certain Develop guidelines for economic evaluations of vaccines in Canada – Inform best practices – Promote standardized guidelines, 2nd ed., 2017); • Or are not specific to vaccines (CADTH, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies agencies, general public 15 Vaccines vs. other health technologies Vaccines can have broad impacts that Recommendation on perspective intervention WHO, 2019 Low-, Vaccines “Should reflect national guidelines middle- or


CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 2 November 2023 English

This document explains the methodology associated with the collection and reporting of health spending data in CIHI’s National Health Expenditure Database (NHEX).

medicines, drugs, patent medicines, serums and vaccines, and oral contraceptives. Fluids required for


INSPQ: Institut national de santé publique du Québec · 30 October 2023 French

Cet avis scientifique constitue une mise à jour d’un avis précédent émis par le Comité sur l’immunisation du Québec au sujet de la vaccination contre le pneumocoque. Il a pour …

avec le VPC-13 chez des adultes n’ayant pas été vaccinés préalablement avec un vaccin pneumococcique. Seuls après l’administration du VPP-23 chez des adultes vaccinés avec le VPC-13 .............................. chez des adultes n’ayant pas été préalablement vaccinés a comparé les réponses obtenues avec le VPC-20 pas du 15A. Une étude a montré que des adultes vaccinés avec le VPC-20 développaient des anticorps dirigés réponses dans un groupe de jeunes enfants (n = 232) vaccinés avec le VPC-20 à 2, 4, 6 et 12 mois ou avec le


CMA: Canadian Medical Association · 25 October 2023 English

Risk of hospital admission and death from first-ever SARS-CoV-2 infection by age group during the Delta and Omicron periods in British Columbia, Canada Research Risk of hospital admission and death …

anti-NP indicates infection-induced antibody as no vaccines used in Canada contain NP antigen. Any (vaccine- approaches, remain under debate for both influenza and vaccines, increasing to more than two-thirds by the ninth had received 5  doses (bivalent BA.1 or BA.4/5) vaccines by age for the fall of 2023 have varied, with nization (NACI): guidance on the use of COVID-19 vaccines in the fall of 2023. 62. Lin D-Y, Xy Y, Gu Y, ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/services/publications/vaccines 63. Link-Gelles R, Levey ME, Natarajan K, et al


Canadian Council for International Cooperation · 24 October 2023 English

Methodological Note For determining the annual IAE and analyzing the IAE and ODA for the years 2015/16 to 2021/22, this study relies mainly on data in the annual Statistical Reports …

million (9%) resulted from in-kind donations of vaccines originally pur- chased for use in Canada (at a The latter is Canada’s in-kind contributions of vaccines, originally purchase for use in Canada.19 Table these vaccines could be donated at a rate of US$6.72 per dose. CSOs argued that these vaccines should outside the IAE related to the in-kind donation of vaccines, which were originally purchased for use in Canada


Canadian Council for International Cooperation · 24 October 2023 English

In addition, it is estimated that there was a In order to truly understand the current status 15% reduction in 2023/2024 in the budgeted of Canadian international assistance, the 2023 …

channel for resulted from in-kind donations of vaccines delivering Canadian ODA. originally purchased


Canadian Council for International Cooperation · 23 October 2023 English

What is missing is a simple table (see an example, next page) that sets out the Budgeted IAE for the previous year, the Actual projected IAE for this previous year, …

million (9%) resulted from in-kind donations of vaccines originally pur- chased for use in Canada (at a The latter is Canada’s in-kind contributions of vaccines, originally purchase for use in Canada.19 Table these vaccines could be donated at a rate of US$6.72 per dose. CSOs argued that these vaccines should outside the IAE related to the in-kind donation of vaccines, which were originally purchased for use in Canada


AUCC: Association of Universities & Colleges in Canada · 20 October 2023 English

We encourage Global Affairs to expand its KPI indicators, such as meeting the SDG’s targets and other As of 2023, 15 of Canada’s universities ranked in the top net zero …

our breakthrough successes in fighting COVID-19. Vaccines and other critical elements of our pandemic response


McMaster Health Forum · 18 October 2023 English

COVID-19 Living Evidence Synthesis 17.1: Effectiveness of Hand Hygiene and Respiratory Etiquette for reducing transmission of COVID-19 and other respiratory infections in non-health care community-based settings

such as before and after availability of COVID-19 vaccines). Our approach to presenting findings with an self-administered hands (60.8% vs 72.1%; p=0.009) COVID-19 vaccines behaviour questionnaire in Japan: a case- • No


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