The 13th Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) will be celebrated from April 25th to May 2nd, 2015. The regional slogan for VWA 2015 is “Boost your power! Get vaccinated!” Vaccines are weakened or killed pathogens that help your immune system fight diseases. Vaccines do not make you sick, but prepare your body to fight off disease when exposed to full strength pathogens in the future. Vaccines boost the power of your immune system and fight off many vaccine-preventable diseases.
Vaccines prevent two to three million deaths each year worldwide and are proven the health care strategy with the highest cost-benefit ratio that it is known. Moreover, vaccines are responsible for the increase of more than ten years in average life expectancy in the twentieth century, which was surpassed only by the introduction of water treatment.
BIREME/PAHO/WHO recommends access to documents and scientific and technical information sources on the Virtual Health Library related to the Vaccination Week in the Americas 2015.
