The dialogue platform “Current issues of immunization” was held on March 1, 2024, at VSMU.

Presentations were made by members of the delegation of the WHO Representative Office in the Republic of Belarus: the Head of the WHO Country Office in Belarus Sergei Diorditsa, the Infectious Diseases Program Coordinator Oleg Dubovik, the Public Health Program Coordinator Valentin Rusovich, as well as the Chief Physician of the Vitebsk Regional Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health Vladimir Sinkevich .

The main issues for discussion were: the history of immunization, a review of immunization programs in the WHO European Region, the organization of immunization in the Vitebsk region, the need for motivational counseling for patients regarding smoking cessation.