Background The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted essential health services, including routine immunization, contributing to the accumulation of millions of children missing life-saving vaccines. Pandemic impacts, combined with persistent challenges faced by low- and middle-income countries in reaching al...

A new case study is available on TechNet on routine immunization strengthening in South Sudan, Greater Upper Nile region, including short documentaries. South Sudan’s Greater Upper Nile region is a complex environment with significant operational challenges to delivering vaccines while navigating s...

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...

Registration Link to register for the webinar 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...

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...

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. &n...

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...