FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Vaccine Supply -- 3 Vaccine Distribution -- 4 Implementation of ACIP Recommendations -- 5 Vaccine Administration Methods and Partners -- 6 Vaccination Rates in Certain Populations -- 7 Data Collection, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Use --...

Approximately 70% of cases of cervical cancer worldwide are caused by genotypes 16 and 18 of human papillomavirus (HPV), which is sexually transmitted. With the availability of an effective vaccine against these HPV types, there is real hope for reducing the global burden of cervical cancer in...

This article is an analysis of the boycott of the polio vaccination campaign in northern Nigeria, which has indefinitely stalled global polio eradication targets. The polio immunization drive was brought to a standstill in July 2003 as religious and political leaders in northern Nigeria...

Infection with genital human papillomavirus (HPV) may cause anogenital cancers, oropharyngeal cancers, anogenital warts, and respiratory papillomas. Two prophylactic vaccines (a bivalent and a quadrivalent vaccine) are now licensed and currently in use in a number of countries. Both vaccines...