Sow Samba O, Steele A Duncan, Mwenda Jason M, Armah George E, Neuzil Kathleen M
Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins, Bamako, Mali.
Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA.
Vaccine. 2017 Oct 9;35(42):5511-5518. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.08.084.
The Center for Vaccine Development - Mali (CVD - Mali), the World Health Organization's regional office in Africa (WHO/AFRO), and the CVD at the University of Maryland School of Medicine hosted the 10th African Rotavirus Symposium in Bamako, Mali on 1-2 June 2016. The symposium is coordinated by WHO/AFRO, the Regional Rotavirus Reference Laboratories, and the African Rotavirus Network (ARN), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The event brings together leading rotavirus researchers, scientists, and policy-makers from across Africa and the world. Over 150 participants, from 31 countries, including 27 in Africa, joined forces to address the theme "Reaching Every Child in Africa with Rotavirus Vaccines." This symposium, the first in francophone Africa, occurred at an unprecedented time when 33 African countries had introduced rotavirus vaccines into their national immunization programs. The symposium concluded with a Call to Action to introduce rotavirus vaccines in the 21 remaining African countries, to increase access in countries with existing vaccination programs, and to continue surveillance and research on rotavirus and other diarrheal diseases.
马里疫苗研发中心（CVD - 马里）、世界卫生组织非洲区域办事处（WHO/AFRO）以及马里兰大学医学院疫苗研发中心于2016年6月1日至2日在马里巴马科共同举办了第十届非洲轮状病毒研讨会。该研讨会由WHO/AFRO、区域轮状病毒参考实验室以及非洲轮状病毒网络（ARN）协调举办，并得到了比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会的支持。此次活动汇聚了来自非洲及世界各地的顶尖轮状病毒研究人员、科学家和政策制定者。来自31个国家的150多名参会者，其中包括27个非洲国家的代表，共同探讨了“让非洲每个儿童都能接种轮状病毒疫苗”这一主题。此次研讨会是在非洲法语国家举办的首次此类会议，召开之时正逢33个非洲国家已将轮状病毒疫苗纳入其国家免疫规划这一前所未有的时期。研讨会最后发出行动呼吁，呼吁在其余21个非洲国家引入轮状病毒疫苗，在已有疫苗接种项目的国家增加疫苗可及性，并继续对轮状病毒及其他腹泻疾病进行监测和研究。
