The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) is responsible for providing education to parents who choose to exempt their child(ren) from school required immunizations. ADHS will be conducting a pilot project for the 2019-2020 school year designed to provide this…
Beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, students in Utah not vaccinated will be admitted to school only on a conditional enrollment status for 21 calendar days after the student and his or her parents have been put on notice. After…
Washington state tailored immunization promotion materials that are relevant to persons who are immunocompromised or HIV-positive. The plan was for providers to start the conversation and strongly recommend HPV vaccination to their immunocompromised and HIV-positive patients, with the goal of…
The Minnesota Department of Health conducted outbreak activities and extended community interventions during their measles outbreak that began in April of 2017. Most of the cases were within the Somali-Minnesotan community and could have been attributed to declines in MMR…
The Washington State Department of Health Office of Immunization and Child Profile provided funding to external partners to support development of HPV immunization campaign messages targeting two at-risk subpopulations of adolescents and young adults
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services Vaccine Preventable Disease Program, together with the Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey (PMCHNNJ), developed and implemented a multi-pronged adolescent immunization awareness initiative that includes an annual…
Seeking a new approach to reduce exemption and out-of-compliance rates from school requirements, Washington began returning kindergarten immunization data to school administrators and nurses in the form of an annual report card. The report cards include three years of immunization…