For Health Professionals

Useful information

• Physician survey results show support for Rotavirus vaccine   
• Immunization Communication Tool for Immunizers - how to answer questions from patients about immunization
• HPV Immunization Communication Tool
  
• Immunization Competency Online Course for nurses
• Evidence showing MMR does not cause austism (Immunization Action Coalition)

Annual report 06/07

• Immunization Report in BC 2006-07 PDF (b&w)
• Immunization Report in BC 2006-07 PDF (color)

New Prevnar®13 vaccine - now available

• Press release - May 5, 2010
• Product monograph
• Q&A for health professionals
• Q&A for general public
 

INFANRIX hexa™ vaccine

• Questions and Answers
• BC HealthFile
• NACI statement
• Product monograph
• Nursing BC advertorial
• BC Medical Journal Article

HPV vaccine

• Presentations to promote the vaccine to educators and parents
• Videos for teens and questions and answers with Dr Gina Ogilvie

Questions & answers for immunizers

• Issue #4 - December 14, 2009
• Issue #3 - September 3, 2009
• Issue #2 - August 1, 2008
• Issue #1 - February 29, 2008

Other HPV resources

• Information from FDA and CDC on Gardasil and its Safety
• W.H.O. - Information Centre on HPV and Cervical Cancer
• Listen to an interview on CBC radio with Dr. Harald zur Hausen on his thoughts about the HPV vaccine. Dr. zur Hausen recently won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of HPV as the cause of cervical cancer.
• Listen to sessions from the 2008 Forum on Immunizing in Schools