WHO: Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccine deployment update – 23 December 2009

The WHO continues to issue weekly “updates” and briefing notes on the H1N1 pandemic at: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html

The Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccine deployment update – 23 December 2009 notes that “the Director-General has called for international solidarity to provide equitable access to pandemic influenza vaccine for all countries. Final preparations are underway to distribute donated pandemic influenza vaccines to 95 low- and middle-income countries to help prevent severe disease.”
Current situation:

1. All of the first 35 countries have requested vaccine donations.
2. 23 have signed agreements with WHO.
3. 6 have finalized National Deployment Plans.

Azerbaijan and Mongolia are reported as the first countries actually scheduled to receive vaccine with estimated delivery dates in January 2010.

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/vaccines/h1n1_vaccination_deployment_update_20091223.pdf

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