Training

Above Zero: Strategies to Prevent Vaccine Freezing

This 4-minute animated video emphasizes the difficulty and importance of maintaining proper temperatures in the vaccine cold chain. The risk of exposing vaccines to freezing temperatures are now known to be significant. These risks can be reduced through health worker training, temperature monitoring, investing in new freeze-safe cold chain equipment, and in vaccine formulations that can withstand cooler temperatures.

Authors

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2013

Publisher

PATH

Type

Training

Categories

  • Supply chain & logistics

Tags

  • Cold box / vaccine carrier

Topic references

FREEZE-PREVENTION-BACKGROUND

Added by: Joseph Little

Added on: 2018-04-05 16:58:32

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