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Rotavirus Resources

Policy and Decision making

• WHO position paper on rotavirus - December 2009 update (English and french)
• Executive Summary Regarding Rotavirus Vaccines for April 2009 SAGE Meeting
  pdf, 50kb
• Detailed Review Paper on Rotavirus Vaccines for April 2009 SAGE
  pdf, 421kb
• Introduction of rotavirus vaccines into national immunization programmes (2009)
• Country under-5 year old mortality rates and % of mortality due to diarrhoea (2010)
  xls, 44kb
• Rotavirus Disease Burden
• » » PAHO Rotavirus Page
• Introduction of rotavirus vaccine with support from the GAVI Alliance: Information to assist the national decision-making and application process - GAVI/PATH (2008) - English and Russian
• PATH - A Briefing Paper on Rotavirus (Dec 2007)
  pdf, 463kb
• Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) recommendations - WHO (2006) Weekly Epidemiological Record. 81(1):8
  pdf, 186kb
• » » RotaADIP
• » » Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web site on rotavirus

Vaccine characteristics and safety

• Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GAVCS) statement on intussusception (2011)
• Safety of Rotarix® and RotaTeq® vaccines - WHO (2006).
• Guidelines to assure the quality, safety and efficacy of live attenuated rotavirus vaccines (oral) (2005)
  pdf, 522kb

Costing and financing

• Comparative review of three cost-effectiveness models for rotavirus vaccines in national immunization programs; a generic approach applied to various regions in the world. (2011)
• Cost effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines and other interventions for diarrhoeal diseases: Meeting report - WHO (2006) Weekly Epidemiological Record. 81(37)
  pdf, 183kb

Implementation

• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - Progress in the Introduction of Rotavirus Vaccine — Latin America and the Caribbean, 2006–2010 (2011)

Health worker training materials

1. Rotavirus Training materials for countries introducing rotavirus vaccine without age restrictions

• a) Rotarix™ 2 dose vaccine
• b) Rotateq™ 3 dose vaccine

2. Rotavirus Training materials for countries introducing rotavirus vaccine with age restrictions

• Rotarix™ 2 dose vaccine

• The Immunological Basis for Immunization. Module 21: Rotavirus (2011)

Monitoring and Surveillance

Integrated approaches

• Diarrhoea: why children are still dying and what can be done
• » » Documents on Diarrhoea
• » » Management of childhood illnesses

• Rotavirus Surveillance worldwide - Weekly Epidemiological Record - April 2011
• Safety of Rotavirus Vaccines: Postmarketing Surveillance in the WHO Region of the Americas
  pdf, 370kb
• Global Rotavirus Information and Surveillance Bulletins
• Manual of rotavirus detection and characterization methods - WHO 2009
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• Post-marketing Surveillance of Rotavirus Vaccine Safety (1 2009)
• Generic protocol for monitoring impact of rotavirus vaccination on gastroenteritis disease burden and viral strains (2008)
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• African rotavirus surveillance newsletter
  pdf, 81kb
• Generic protocols for (i) hospital-based surveillance to estimate the burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in children and (ii) a community-based survey on utilization of health care services for gastroenteritis in children: field test version