Dear immunization professionals, World Immunization Week (WIW) 2021 is around the corner (24 to 30 April)! The theme ‘Vaccines bring us closer’, has been chosen to urge greater engagement around immunization globally to promote the importance of vaccination in bringing people together, and improvin...

Dear TechNet colleagues, Energize the Chain (EtC), aims to solve the cold chain problem by the formation of public-private partnerships with Ministries of Health and the cell tower or other power provider industries. With this collaboration we can utilize the energy and connectivity avail...

You can already register to the next session of the Webinar series for Health Workers on COVID-19 Vaccination Topic: Supply and logistics When: Tuesday 13 April (12-1PM CET) Registration: https://echo.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_81Wgk82kRcmmMVJ43SNOuA You can find all th...

The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are collaborating to strengthen implementation of home-based records. An implementation guide to support countries in reviewing their home-based records is under development; Fuse ForeSight will be supp...

You can already register to the next session of the Webinar series for National/subnational Focal Points on COVID-19 Vaccination: Planning and Implementation Topic: Vaccination strategies for COVID-19 vaccination When: 6 April (12-1PM CET) Registration: https://echo.zoom.us/we...

Hello,   Greetings!!   Empower, in collaboration with WHO SEARO, is pleased to announce the launch of the Emergency Outbreak Response Platform for 11 South & Southeast Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, DPR Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailan...

You can already register to the next session of the Webinar series for Health Workers on COVID-19 Vaccination Topic: Reporting on COVID-19 vaccines (monitoring and AEFI) When: 30 March (12-1PM CET) Registration: https://echo.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_81Wgk82kRcmmMVJ43SNOuA You can fi...

This briefing note calls for the meticulous monitoring, recording, and reporting of COVID-19 vaccine doses, and distribution and consumption across all levels of the supply chain, including at service points. The need for a robust stock management system has been highlighted both in the Guidance on ...

Did you miss the 2021 GVIRF? Do you want to review the materials presented, relive the conversation, or share the information with a colleague? Video recordings and presentations from GVIRF 2021 are now being posted to the GVIRF Topic Page.  If you do not find what you are looking for, please...

The Single-dose HPV Vaccine Evaluation Consortium collates and synthesizes existing evidence and evaluates new data on the potential for single-dose HPV vaccination. Their goal is to inform global policy discussions and program guidance, as well as to raise awareness and understanding of its implica...

Dear colleagues, WHO’s interim guidance “Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness” is now available at https://www.who.int/tools/covid-19-vaccine-introduction-toolkit#Evaluation%20of%20COVID-19%20vaccine%20introduction. From the site you’ll find links to the COVID-19 VE guidance, a sample ...

UPDATE (5 MAY) This working copy of the document Considerations for optimizing deployment of ChAdOx1-S [recombinant] vaccines in a time-limited constrained supply situation (AstraZeneca/AZD1222-Vaxzevria, AstraZeneca/SK Bioscience and SII/Covishield vaccines) provides an overview of the scientific ...

The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’s Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) workstream, Project ECHO, Boost, TechNet-21, and the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project invite you to join a series of video-conference-based capacity building webinars. Topic: Generating acceptance and demand for CO...

The World Health Organization (WHO) invites applications for the first cohort of the WHO Scholar Level 1 certification course on Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA 2030). We request your help to share the following course announcement with your trusted colleagues and partners and to recommend the best can...

Deadline extended  Do you work on health or immunization? Are you passionate about new and innovative approaches to improving vaccination coverage? If ‘yes’, then we’d like to hear from YOU! The World Health Organisation (WHO) has developed a set of tools to support immunization programmes ...

Given the need for an ultra-cold chain (UCC) for an initial leading COVID-19 vaccine candidate, Project Last Mile conducted an analysis on the availability of liquid CO2 (LCO2) within the Coca-Cola value chain in 47 countries in Africa to assist in meeting potential dry ice needs to support ultra-co...

The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’s Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) workstream, Project ECHO, Boost, TechNet-21, and the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project invite you to join a series of video-conference-based capacity building webinars. Topic: Understanding COVID-19 vaccines - safet...

The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’s Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) workstream, Project ECHO, Boost, TechNet-21, and the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project invite you to join a series of video-conference-based capacity building webinars. Topic: Regulatory and Procurement Aspects for ...

Français ci-dessous - Español abajo  Dear colleagues, As you may be aware, the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’s Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) workstream, Project ECHO, Boost, TechNet-21, and the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project have been organizing a series of video-con...

As the world starts the largest vaccine roll-out against COVID-19, WHO and partners are helping countries to develop and implement Covid-19 vaccine Simulation Exercises (SimEx) to prepare for vaccine arrival and deployment. A recent commentary published in the Lancet Global Health, urges countr...