AIPO What is AIPO AIPO is the Arizona Immunization Program Office Leads public health immunization efforts in the state Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention What are our goals ID: 641191
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Arizona Immunization Program Office(AIPO)Slide2
What is AIPO?AIPO is the Arizona Immunization Program OfficeLeads
public health immunization efforts in the
state
Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionSlide3
What are our goals?Prepare for and respond to Public Health Emergencies
Provide a Safety Net of Services and Community Support
Promote Healthy and Safe Community Environments
Build awareness of public health value
Leverage technologies to achieve resultsSlide4
What does AIPO do?
Vaccines for Children (VFC)
County/Partner Collaboration
School and Childcare Assessments
Health Education
Special Programs
ASIISSlide5
What is Vaccines For Children (VFC)?
A
federal program that offers all ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) recommended vaccines at no cost for
eligible
children through VFC enrolled providers
.
FY 2013
:
Vaccine Doses Distributed:
1,527,216
Vaccine Dollars Spent:
$78,987,031.15
Number of Arizona VFC Providers:
879Slide6
Who is ACIP?
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
for Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Group
of
medical
and public health experts that
develops recommendations on how to use vaccines to control diseases in the United
States
Recommendations
stand as public health
advice
lead
to a reduction in the incidence of vaccine preventable diseases
increase
in the safe use of vaccines and related biological products. Slide7
Immunization Schedules
ACIP provides general recommendations on childhood, adolescent, adult and catch-up vaccination schedules
Also provides recommendations for
Health-care Personnel
Travel Vaccinations
Pregnant Women
Complete list of ACIP recommendations are published in the MMWR
Schedules available on CDC website at
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/index/htmlSlide8
What kind of Education Information and Resources are available?
Immunications
–
Quarterly newsletter
Reaches over 2,800 healthcare professionals
Accessed online at
http://
azdhs.gov/phs/immunization/newsletters.htm
Annual Immunization Conference
21
st
year
250-300 healthcare professionals attend from around the state
2014 Theme - Immunization Nation: across all Borders, across all Generations
April 23
rd
& 24
th
,
2014
Registration open now at
http://asdhs.gov/phs/immunization/conference.htmSlide9
What kind of Education Information and Resources are available?
AIPO Website –
http://azdhs.gov/phs/immunizations
TAPI website –
www.whyimmunize.org
CDC website –
www.cdc.gov/vaccines
Various flyers and brochures which can be handed out to patientsSlide10
What is the Arizona State Immunization Information System (ASIIS)?
Description
Created in 1994, the Arizona State Immunization Information System collects, stores, analyzes, releases and reports immunization data and serves as a record keeping system for all children who receive immunizations in Arizona
Number of enrolled providers
There are over 2500 providers enrolled
Number of children in the system
There
are approximately
5
million children in the
systemSlide11
What is the Arizona State Immunization Information System (ASIIS)?
Number of doses in the system
From 1/1/1998 until now there have been 57,693,970 vaccines administered
Provider outreach
ASIIS hotline available Monday-Friday 8-5 pm to answer and assist any questions or concerns
Training for new and existing ASIIS users on the ASIIS homepage. Users have 24 hour access to on-line training modules that they can review as many times as they need.
In- person trainings at selected sites coming the summer of 2014.Slide12
We can provide technical support
Call the ASIIS hotline with data entry questions
Call our nurses for specific immunization questions
Schedule intervals
Appropriate use of vaccines
ACIP recommendationsSlide13
Questions?