Updates to the Canadian Immunization Guide : April 2015 to October 2016

Canada Communicable Disease Report = Relevé Des Maladies Transmissibles Au Canada
C JensenNational Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)

Abstract

The Canadian Immunization Guide (CIG) is a trusted, reader-friendly summary of information and advice on immunization that has been used by health care providers and policy makers for decades. It is continuously updated based on new recommendations from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) and the Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT), two external advisory bodies to the Public Health Agency of Canada. In September 2016, the CIG moved to a new web platform that has improved navigability and is more mobile friendly. Between April 2015 and October 2016, five new NACI statements were published and are reflected in the CIG. The objective of this article is to provide readers with highlights of recent key changes to active vaccine recommendations in the CIG. For example, for Hepatitis (HA) vaccine, it may now be administered to persons six months of age and older and considered for all individuals receiving repeated replacement of plasma-derived clotting factors. There are now new recommendations for the use of HA immunoglobulin post-exposure prophylaxis. For Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, any of the authorized HPV vaccines in Canada, including HPV9 vaccine, can be used according to the ...Continue Reading

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