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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 healthcare
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
healthcare 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 Healthcare Professionals www.immunize.org
Launched in 1994, one of the earliest websites devoted to
immunization,
www.immunize.org is the premier non-profit
web-based resource for practical,
user-friendly immunization information available today,
serving more than 25,000 visitors per day. The website
houses IAC's collection of more than 250 healthcare
professional immunization education materials and patient handouts, some in
several languages. These materials are
available free of charge, and users are encouraged to
download them, make copies, and distribute them. This website also
makes available all Vaccine Information Statements (VISs)
published in the United States in more than 30 languages. Users
download more than 8 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
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parents presents straightforward
information about vaccine-preventable diseases and their
vaccines. Launched in August 2002 with sole funding from CDC,
it currently serves about 4,000 visitors per day. The website
contains information about vaccines needed by age group, vaccine safety, and the overall
importance of immunization, and features more than one hundred 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, and national immunization coalitions. The website enables
cooperation and sharing of news and resources between
coalition members. The website also allows
healthcare professionals, parents, and other immunization
advocates to contact immunization coalitions for resources,
ideas, or volunteering. |
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IAC Express
Currently emailed free of charge to more than 50,000 opt-in
subscribers every Wednesday, IAC Express provides up-to-date
information about new CDC vaccine recommendations, FDA vaccine
approvals, 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 IAC
Express for
the critical information they need in their day-to-day work. The current issue as well as the more than
1,440 issues
published since IAC Express' 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 IAC Express and
www.immunize.org in which IAC 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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Vaccinating Adults: A Step-by-Step Guide
Published in November 2017, this book
provides 142 pages of practical information in an easy-to-use
format to help you implement or enhance adult
immunization services in your healthcare setting. The
Guide also includes an abundance of web addresses
and references to assist you in staying up to date
with the most current information. Developed by staff
at the Immunization Action Coalition, the Guide had
several early reviews for technical accuracy by subject
matter experts at the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and the National Vaccine Program Office. |
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Handouts (Educational
Materials for Staff and Patients)
IAC is the most relied-upon source of
immunization education materials for healthcare professionals and their
patients, providing more than 5 million downloads annually. We create, update, and distribute more than 250 separate
educational pieces, some in several languages, including such widely used and reprinted
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- Summary of Recommendations for Child/Teen
Immunization
(age birth through 18 years)
- Summary of Recommendations for Adult Immunization (age 19
years and older)
- Screening Checklist for Contraindications to
Vaccines for
Children and Teens
- Screening Checklist for Contraindications to
Vaccines for
Adults
- How to Administer Intramuscular and
Subcutaneous Vaccine Injections
- Immunizations for Babies – A Guide for
Parents
- When Do Children and Teens Need Vaccinations?
- Vaccine Administration Record for Children and
Teens
- Vaccinations for Adults – You're Never
Too Old to Get
Vaccinated!
- Administering Vaccines: Dose, Route, Site, and
Needle
Size
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. 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. |
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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 given 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, you can access the library at
www.immunize.org/vis. |
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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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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
As part of a CDC cooperative agreement in 2002, 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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| 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 updated on January 1, 2020.
This page was reviewed on January 1, 2020. |
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