Newly Designed and Easy to Navigate—Visit Give2MenACWY.org to Enhance Your Efforts to Increase Rates for MenACWY Booster Doses and Other Adolescent Vaccinations

Aimed at healthcare professionals, the site has been revised to incorporate newly updated materials and to highlight the importance of all recommended vaccines for 16-year-olds. A simplified navigation structure makes locating information a breeze.

The colorful new Give2MenACWY.org website is divided into five easy-to-access sections:

• Vaccinate Teens – The tools included on this web page offer helpful information on teen vaccination schedules and tips for improving adolescent immunization rates.
• Give 2 Doses – Fewer than half of teens have received the recommended second dose of MenACWY vaccine. This web page offers tools to help providers improve second dose coverage.
• 16-year-old Visit – These resources help both providers and their patients remember the important vaccines recommended for 16-year-olds.
• Tools for Providers – These tools from CDC, IAC, and other organizations explain meningococcal ACWY vaccine recommendations and assist in improving adolescent coverage for all recommended vaccines.
• Resources – This section contains a wealth of information to assist provider efforts to improve adolescent immunization rates. The materials are subdivided into the following subsections:
  • Print materials,
  • Links to organizations involved in adolescent immunization,
  • Personal stories about the importance of vaccination, and
  • Additional resources of interest.

Additional time savings are provided by the site’s single location where all website materials are listed according to whether they are primarily of interest to providers or to patients/parents. Other sections relate to general adolescent immunization, as well as meningococcal disease and vaccine information.

Visit Give2MenACWY.org and enjoy browsing (and hopefully deploying) its terrific resources. The site is brought to you by IAC, in collaboration with Sanofi Pasteur.

Related Links

• Give2MenACWY.org website
• “Dear Colleague” joint letter from AAFP, AAP, ACHA, ACOG, APhA, SAHM, and IAC about the importance of the 16-year-old visit
• Press release on the “Dear Colleague” letter from six professional societies and IAC about the importance of the 16-year-old visit

• American Academy of Family Physicians press release on “Dear Colleague” joint letter
• American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology announces press release on “Dear Colleague” letter

• Ask the Experts: MenACWY
• You’re 16: We Recommend These Vaccines for You
• Algorithm for MenACWY Immunization in Adolescents 11–18 Years of Age
• Top 10 Ways to Improve Adolescent Immunization Rates
• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine policy statement: Establishing an Immunization Platform for 16-year-olds in the United States