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The WHO Measles and Rubella (MR) Team invites you to a global webinar on "Best practices and lessons learned on Measles and Rubella campaign".
Panelists from country, regional, and HQ levels will share:
Best practices, challenges, and lessons learned from recent campaign implementation
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Are you interested in how cutting-edge technology is solving real-world challenges with the vaccine cold chain?
Join us for an exclusive deep dive into the Varo/Pogo-LT application - a game-changer for temperature data collection and vaccine safety. We’re exploring how this innovative tool is being...
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What is MAINSTREAM?
The MAINSTREAM initiative worked with local mentor institutes in Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Pakistan to support 25 small embedded implementation research (IR) projects to strengtheng immunization coverage and equity, especially for zero dose children. Th...
On May 22, 2026, HLN released a new version of the open-source Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) software with several clinical logic and technical enhancements to improve clinical decision support accuracy and service. Clinical refinements include updates across seven vaccine groups t...
The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), with technical support from WHO Nepal, successfully conducted a comprehensive Joint External EPI–VPD Surveillance Review from 24–30 April 2026. This milestone exercise—the first of its kind since 2010—was undertaken following recommendations from the WHO...
Nine officials from Egypt’s Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) strengthened their technical skills in Cold Chain Equipment Management (CCEM) during a 10-day training at the EAC Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunization and Health Supply Chain Management in Kigali, Rwanda (3–15 M...
In this episode of the Alliance lift, Dr Shalom Ndoula (the Director for Cameroon EPI) talks about his own trajectory from community-level facilities to now overseeing the country's immunization programme and what he has learned along the way. His insights touch on adaptation of programmes and polic...
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Dear TechNet Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to the third and final webinar in our Strategic Vaccine Procurement Series—an opportunity to explore a critical, often complex dimension of vaccine procurement: the role of legal and re...
A new tool for collecting, analysing, and reporting temperature data has been released by WHO. This Microsoft Excel tool, which can be used as part of a temperature monitoring study, is available as a zip file on the WHO website, and comes with a set of user documentation.
www.who.int/publica...
The ‘Cold chain equipment and dry store temperature mapping tool’ is a tool for mapping temperatures in various types of cold chain equipment and dry stores and is available in official United Nations (UN) languages. Version 10.0 was released in January 2026 and includes various performance improvem...
Here is something we rarely say out loud in our sector.
Every time we pull a pharmacist or a logistician out of their facility for a classroom training, the pharmacy or the supply chain behind them doesn't pause. The stockouts don't wait. The cold chain doesn't care about the workshop schedule.
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Hi, TechNet Friends.
We are conducting a short research survey on vaccine cold chain reliability and would welcome your participation. The survey is part of a study applying a behavioral science framework to the operational practices that sustain immunization supply chains — an area where the exper...
Validating immunization logic just got easier.
HLN Consulting launched CDS Insight, a new interactive platform designed to support the testing and demonstration of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE), an open-source, evidence-based immunization forecasting service. Built for public ...
Sharing the following from WHO's World Immunization Week 2026 website.
Vaccines have long been one of the most powerful tools in public health. Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives – not by accident, but because ordinary people made the decision to protect themsel...
Dear TechNet colleagues,I am developing the Field Constraint Registry for Vaccine Specification (FCRVS), a practitioner-contributed, curated platform designed to convert recurring vaccine delivery constraints in fragile, conflict-affected, and other operationally constrained settings into structured...
On March 28, 2026, HLN released a new version of the open-source Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) software with several clinical logic and technical enhancements. HLN is also pleased to introduce CDS Insight, a new platform designed to streamline the demonstration and testin...
Hello Everyone,
VillageReach has published a new op-ed. The article argues that as Gavi enters a more constrained financing era under Gavi 6.0, success will depend on shifting from expansion to prioritization while putting country voice, transparency, and meaningful consultation at the c...
Sizeable between- and within-country inequalities in childhood immunization impair progress towards universal coverage of all persons with essential life-saving vaccines. Monitoring global trends in immunization inequalities helps to identify population subgroups that are less likely to benefit from...
Chers collègues,
Bonjour, j’espère que vous allez bien.
Je mène actuellement une recherche doctorale sur le transfert de technologies et son impact sur l’innovation et la production pharmaceutique locale en Afrique, avec un focus sur le Nigeria, le Cameroun et le Sénégal.
Compte tenu de l’experti...
Dear colleagues,
Greetings, I hope you are doing well.
I am currently conducting a doctoral research study on technology transfer and its impact on innovation and local pharmaceutical manufacturing in Africa, with a focus on Nigeria, Cameroon, and Senegal.
Given the expertise within this communit...
Immunization outcomes depend on behavior, including caregivers seeking services, providers following protocols, and communities trusting the system. Yet social and behavior change initiatives are rarely institutionalized or consistently funded, often buried in budget lines without clear accountabili...
TechNet webinar - Launch of WHO Guidance for Using Modelling for Immunization Decision-Making
Date: May 5, 2026 Time: 13:00 PM CET
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This webinar will introduce the newly released WHO guidance for using modelling for immuniz...
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