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Brief Report on the Third Asian Vaccine Conference (ASVAC) 2011 The
third Asian Vaccine Conference (ASVAC) 2010 with the
theme “ Accessibility, Affordability &
Accountability” organized by Indonesian Pediatric
Society, Asian Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases
(ASPID), International
Society of Tropical Pediatrics – Philippines (ISTP-Ph)
Philippine Foundation for Vaccination (PFV), and Asian
Strategic Alliance for Pneumococcal Disease Prevention
(ASAP) was held at Gran Melia Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia
from July 28-29, 2011 with Professor Sri
Rezeki S. Hadinegoro as
the over-all chair. Many distinguished international
speakers were invited as well as members of the ASAP,
the EPI and National immunization program managers of
many Asian countries and the leaders of the three
organizing societies, ASPID, ISTP-Ph and PFV. There were
500 participants from several countries mainly from The ASVAC 2011 highlights the most cost-effective public health interventions-Immunization, when considering hard-to-reach populations in particular and the introduction of new vaccines. There are constraints however, ranging from low coverage of immunization in the developing world and sustainable adoption and financing of new vaccines. To reaffirm commitment for intensifying efforts to sustain current achievements and achieve universal coverage of routine immunization and in line with the global agenda, South-East Asia region will be declaring 2012; The Year of Intensification of Routine immunization. The
Scientific Program comprised Plenary, and Symposium
sessions covered the global immunization challenges from
vaccine development to implementation of immunization.
Vaccine communication and advocacy were also addressed.
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The ASAP Board meeting was held on the 30th July, 2011 and there was an unanimous vote for the new executive ASAP board members with Professor Zulkifli Ismail for the Chair, Professor Usa Thisyakorn for Co-Chair and Dr. Daniel Goh for treasurer. Following the ASAP board meeting, visiting Bio Farma, Bandung was successfully organized by Professor Cissy B. Kartasasmita. Since its establishment in 1890, Bio Farma has been active in supplying high quality vaccines and serum for people. The need for EPI vaccines in Indonesia has been supplied solely by Bio Farma.
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