Free Newsletters

• CDCs Immunization Works!—Monthly newsletter for health care providers and consumer groups.
• IACs Express—Weekly email immunization information for health professionals.
• IACs HEP Express—Monthly newsletter for health care providers.
• IACs Needle Tips—Semi-annual publication for health professionals providing services to children, teens, or adults.
• IACs Vaccinate Adults!—Semi-annual publication for health professionals providing services to adults.
• IACs Vaccinate Women!—Annual publication for obstetrics and gynecology health professionals.

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General

• CDC National Center for HIV, STD, & TB Prevention (NCHSTP)—Provides information on HIV/AIDS, global AIDS, STDs, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, correctional health, and health disparities.
  • Viral Hepatitis—Provides surveillance forms, disease burden and data publications, free educational materials, and resource center.
    • Hepatitis A—Provides information on correctional settings, educational materials, fact sheet, foodborne Hepatitis A, FAQs, surveillance, vaccine, vaccine schedules, and resources.
    • Hepatitis B—Provides information on correctional settings, educational materials, fact sheet,  FAQs, healthcare professionals, illegal injection drug use, vaccine, vaccine schedules, and resources.
    • Hepatitis C—Provides information on correctional settings, educational materials, fact sheet,  FAQs, healthcare professionals, prevention strategy, illegal injection drug use, post-exposure prophylaxis for healthcare workers, and resources.
• CDCs Vaccines & Immunization (NIP)—Assists health departments in planning, developing, and implementing immunization programs.
  • Vaccine Information Statements (VIS)—Provides VISs in PDF and text only format.
  • Vaccine-Preventable Diseases—Provides information about the disease, vaccine information, VISs, FAQs, and information for health professionals.
• Hepatitis A, B, and C Prevention Programs—Provides information about programs across the country that work to prevent hepatitis A, B, or C in people who are at risk for infection; also features general information on hepatitis B and hepatitis A vaccination, special topics related to viral hepatitis, and links to other organizations and resources.
• Immunization Action Coalition (IAC)—Provides FAQs, VISs, summary of recommendations for child & adult, child & adult screening questions, standing orders, and free print materials for childhood, adolescent, and adult immunizations.
  • VISs listed by disease and language
  • Standing Orders available for children/teens and adults in both PDF and HTML format.
  • Free print materials
• Iowa Department of Public Health Mumps Information—Provides information about mump disease, prevention and control measures, testing protocols and the scope of the outbreak.
• National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)—Maintains an accessible and efficient forum for individuals thought to be injured by childhood vaccines.
• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)—Provides a nationwide mechanism by which adverse events following immunization (AEFI) may be reported, analyzed and made available to the public. The VAERS Web site also provides a vehicle for disseminating vaccine safety-related information to parents/guardians, healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, state vaccine programs, and other constituencies.
• Vaccine Information for the Public & Health Professionals—Provides reliable information on each vaccine-preventable disease and its vaccine, as well as scientific data on vaccine safety and the importance of vaccines.
• Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program—Provides free vaccines to doctors who serve eligible children and is administered by the CDC through the National Immunization Program.
• WHOs Immunization, Vaccines & Biologicals—Provides information on immunization standards, vaccine research and development, immunization financing, supply, and procurement, immunization safety, immunization service delivery and accelerated disease control, and immunization surveillance, assessment, and monitoring.

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