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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, health care
organizations, and government health agencies. |
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| For more than a decade, 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 lifespan. |
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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 almost 11,000 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 50 languages and some
alternative formats. In the past twelve months, users
downloaded more than four million ready-to-copy (PDF)
documents from the website. IAC makes daily additions and
updates to the content of
www.immunize.org. |
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Website for the Public and Health Professionals 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 7,500 visitors per day. The website
contains information about vaccine safety and the overall
importance of immunization; it currently features hundreds of
vaccine-preventable disease photos and video clips. |
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Online Database of Immunization Coalitions www.izcoalitions.org
Launched in 2001, this website provides access to an online
database of local, state, regional, national, and
international immunization coalitions. The database 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 was traditionally a 24-page,
CDC-reviewed publication that came out twice each year; going forward we
plan to publish four issues 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 have been
distributed to an average of 160,000 adult medicine specialists per issue.
VA has been a 12‑page, semiannual publication targeted at internal
medicine specialists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, infectious disease
specialists, occupational medicine specialists, nephrologists, and
geriatricians; in accordance with our plans for NT, the frequency of VA
will increase. 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 45,000 opt-in
subscribers every Monday, IACX provides up-to-date information
about FDA vaccine approvals, new ACIP and AAP vaccine
recommendations, newly released Vaccine Information
Statements, new immunization resources and current events, and
journal articles. "Front-line" 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 900 issues
published since IACX's inception in 1997 are available online
at
www.immunize.org/express. |
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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
IAC is the most relied-upon source of CDC-reviewed immunization materials
for healthcare professionals and their patients, providing over three
million downloads in the past year. We create, update, and distribute more
than 250 separate educational pieces including such widely used and
reprinted items as: |
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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 2011 The Pink Book
(Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases)
includes 12 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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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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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-lifespan use. To date, more than 6
million adult cards, 200,000 child/teen cards, and almost 800,000 lifetime
record cards have been distributed. |
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Laminated Immunization Schedules
In March 2006, IAC began producing durable versions of CDC's Recommended
Immunization Schedules (for children, adolescents, and adults) for
convenient use in medical practices. IAC's copies of the schedules are
printed on 80# cardstock, laminated for heavy-duty use, and printed in
vivid colors for easy reading. IAC has distributed more than 170,000
laminated schedules. |
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Influenza Vaccination
Pocket Guide
In collaboration with the National Influenza Vaccine Summit, IAC develops
and distributes a laminated influenza vaccination pocket guide prior to
each influenza season. The guide provides front-line healthcare personnel
with information about persons for whom the vaccine is recommended and
about the vaccine. Between 500,000 and 1 million pocket guides have been
distributed each year since 2005 to more than a dozen national medical
professional and specialty societies, state health departments, and many
other organizations. |
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| IAC's IRS Form 990s are available from GuideStar, a repository of financial information about nonprofits. Register to view this information (it's free). |
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This page was reviewed on
August 17,
2011 |
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Immunization Action Coalition • 1573 Selby Ave • St. Paul, MN 55104 |
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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. 5U38IP000290) 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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