11th meeting of the European Technical Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (ETAGE)

The European Technical Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (ETAGE) met on 17-18 March 2011 to review and discuss immunization activities and developments in the WHO European Region and provide advice to the WHO Regional Office for Europe on appropriate activities. Main topics for discussion included responses made to the recent importation and outbreak of polio, progress towards the 2015 measles and rubella elimination goal, lessons learned from the implementation of pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009 vaccines, vaccine financing, vaccine adverse event monitoring systems, activities to strengthen National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs), and the regional response to the Decade of Vaccines (DoV) initiative.