Global strategy for comprehensive Vaccine-Preventable Disease (VPD) surveillance

This document is promotes the development of high-functioning surveillance systems that are:

• Comprehensive, encompassing all vaccine-preventable disease threats faced by a country, in all geographic areas and populations, using all laboratory and other methodologies required to detect diseases reliably; and
• Integrated, wherever possible, taking advantage of shared infrastructure for components of surveillance such as data management and laboratory systems.