International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis
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Date: 2022-01-18

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Cover of the new International Certificate of Vaccination issued by the Bureau of Quarantine in the Philippines since 2021.
The International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis （ICVP）, also known as the Carte Jaune or Yellow Card, is an official vaccination report created by the World Health Organization （WHO）.
As a travel document, it is a kind of medical passport that is recognised internationally and may be required for entry to certain countries where there are increased health risks for travellers.
The ICVP is not an immunity passport; the primary difference is that vaccination certificates such as the ICVP incentivise individuals to obtain vaccination against a disease,
while immunity passports incentivise individuals to get infected with and recover from a disease.
Various schemes for health passports or vaccination certificates have been proposed for people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
The ICVP's nickname Yellow Card or its French equivalent Carte Jaune derives from the yellow colour of the document.
The fact that yellow fever is a commonly required vaccination for travel has contributed to the document's association with the colour yellow, even though the ICVP can cover a wide range of vaccinations and booster shots, not just yellow fever.
An International Certificate of Vaccination or Revaccination Against Yellow Fever, issued in the Soviet Union in 1985.
The International Certificate of Inoculation and Vaccination was established by the International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation （1933） in The Hague, which came into force on 1 August 1935 and was amended in 1944.
After the 1944 amendment, in addition to Personal, Aircraft and Maritime Declarations of Health, the Convention covered...