Louisiana's SFT State Coalition Meeting Dates for 2010

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Friday, March 12 - 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Wisteria Room at the Power Center

1804 MacArthur Drive, Alexandria, LA

Friday, July 9, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Location TBA

Wednesday, October 27, 6 pm - 8:00 pm

JW Marriott Hotel New Orleans

614 Canal, New Orleans, LA

April 19 – 22, 2010
Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Conference Goals and Objectives

The goals of the Conference are to provide information that will help participants provide comprehensive immunization coverage for all age groups and explore innovative strategies for developing programs, policy, and research to promote immunization coverage for all age groups. During three and a half days of plenary sessions and workshops, many topics will be discussed, including:

Adolescent Immunization * Adult Immunization * Assessment
Barriers to Vaccination * Community and Partnerships
Childhood Immunization * Cultural Diversity * Global Immunization
Surveillance * Health Communications * Health Education
Policy and Legislation * New Vaccines and Vaccine Development
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases * Vaccine Safety * Immunization Registries

Conference Registration

The conference registration fee schedule is as follows:

"Early Bird" registration: $225 (through February 19, 2010)
Regular registration: $250 (through April 2, 2010)
On-site registration: $275 (payable on-site at the conference only)

Registration to attend only one day of the conference is available for $150.

For more information about the 43rd National Immunization Conference, please contact the Conference Planning Team at (404) 639-8225 or via email at NIPNIC@cdc.gov.

May 26 – 28, 2010
Chicago, IL 

 

The 9th National Conference on Immunization and Health Coalitions will be hosted by the Chicago Area Immunization Campaign on May 26 – 28, 2010.
More information will soon be posted.

 

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Louisiana is #2 in U.S.

The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention just released the 2008 immunization coverage rates results and we are happy to report our latest achievement.   According to the National Immunization Survey (NIS), Louisiana ranks number 2 in the country at 81.9% for 4:3:1:3:3:1!

As you all know the NIS is a large, on-going survey of immunization coverage among all U.S. pre-school children (19 - 35 months old), irrespective of whether the children received their immunizations in the public or private sector that measures how well immunized the children are vaccinated by 24 months of age.   The sample for the survey is derived from children born from January 2005 through June 2007.

Needless to say, this achievement has not come easy, but it was achieved through the hard work of our Vaccines for Children providers, Immunization Program staff, Parish Health Units, Shots for Tots and our Coalition partners, and various immunization Champions.  Our success has come from many different approaches and stepped interventions that has enabled us to achieve this level of immunization completion. 

 We would like to take this opportunity to thank the First Lady Supriya Jindal for lending her support to our Immunization cause.  We would like to thank all of our Immunization Consultants who have worked extremely hard in promoting, recruiting, training healthcare providers to participate in the Louisiana Immunization Network for Kids Statewide (LINKS).  We wish to thank all Vaccines for Children providers, the Parish Health Units-nurses and clerks for ensuring that children get vaccinated.  We would like to thank our partners in the Medicaid Program, for their partnership and leadership in the Immunization Medicaid-Vaccines For Children (VFC)-Assessments Follow Up Information-eXchange (AFIX)-Pay for Performance Initiative.  This initiative provides a qualitative and quantitative financial inducement for provider to be more “immunization aware” and to take “ownership” of the children under their care, and thereby, improving the immunization coverage rate in their practice.  We also like to thank our ACS partners. 

It is the belief of the Immunization Program that not only does it take a whole village to raise a child but also to see that one is properly vaccinated in a timely manner which is why each and every one of you should share in the victory that we are celebrating today with these results.  These results are not merely statistics validating our success as a program but represent the health and well being of our precious children in Louisiana. 

Congratulations to all of you on a job well done!  

Estimated Vaccination Coverage* with Individual Vaccines and Selected Vaccination Series

Among Children 19-35 Months of Age by State and Local Area

US, National Immunization Survey, Q1/2008-Q4/2008†

Estimates presented as point estimate (%) ± 95% Confidence Interval.

† Children in the Q1/2008-Q4/2008 National Immunization Survey were born between January 2005 and June 2007.

‡ 4 or more doses of any diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis vaccines including diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, and any acellular pertussis vaccine (DTaP/DTP/DT).

† Children in the Q1/2008-Q4/2008 National Immunization Survey were born between January 2005 and June 2007.

‡ 4 or more doses of any diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis vaccines including diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, and any acellular pertussis vaccine (DTaP/DTP/DT).

§ 3 or more doses of any poliovirus vaccine.

ll 1 or more doses of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.

¶ 3 or more doses of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine.

** 3 or more doses of hepatitis B vaccine.

†† 1 or more doses of hepatitis B vaccine administered between birth and age 3 days.

‡‡ 1 or more doses of varicella at or after child's first birthday, unadjusted for history of varicella illness.

§§ 4 or more doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7).

llll  ACIP expanded the recommendation of administering hepatitis A vaccine from ≥24 months to children aged 12-23 months in May 2006; therefore, ≥2 doses of hepatitis A coverage in the 2008 NIS is measured among  19-35 month old children.  Prior years of hepatitis A data among 19-35 months of age is not available.  Hepatitis A coverage among 24-35 month old children including the 2006 and 2007 NIS data are available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5825a1.htm  and for 2003-2005 NIS data is available at http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/stats-surv/imz-coverage.htm#chart

¶¶ 4 or more doses of DTaP, 3 or more doses of poliovirus vaccine, 1 or more doses of any MMR, 3 or more doses of Hib, and 3 or more doses of HepB.

*** 4:3:1:3:3 plus 1 or more doses of varicella vaccine.

††† 4:3:1:3:3:1 plus 4 or more doses of PCV7.