Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in infants and children under 5 years of age

Weekly Epidemiological Record Volume 8, 2019, 94, pp. 85–104

In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to Member States on health policy matters, WHO issues a series of regularly updated position papers on vaccines and combinations of vaccines against diseases that have an international public health impact. These papers areconcerned primarily with the use of vaccines in large-scale vaccination programmes. They summarise essential background information on diseases and vaccines and conclude with the current WHO position on the use of vaccines worldwide.