Post00384 RE:IDEAS + DELIVERY KIT + NEEDLE-FREE + PILOT

Post00384 RE:IDEAS + DELIVERY KIT + NEEDLE-FREE + PILOT 18 October 2001 CONTENTS 1. RE: COOL IDEAS 2. PATH DELIVERY KIT GUIDE 3. NEEDLE-FREE INJECTION TECHNOLOGY NEWS SERVICE 4. HEALTH INTERNETWORK PILOT Visit the TechNet 21 Delhi meeting web pages at: http://www.who.int/vaccines-access/index.html Get the latest Technet21 documents at: http://www.who.int/vaccines- access/Vaccines/Vaccine_Cold_Chain/Technet/2001_Delhi_Technet.htm ____________________________________*______________________________________ 1. RE: COOL IDEAS In Technet Forum Post00383 COOL IDEAS, 12 October 2001, which mentioned Hitachi developing a refrigerator with an inner door to stop the cold air falling out of the refrigerator, reminded James Cheyne, PATH, of a proposal for hanging plastic curtains in refrigerator and suggests we revisit that idea. Here is where we test institutional memory! * Does anyone remember more about refrigerator curtains? Contributions to: [[email protected]][email protected][/email] or use your reply button! ___________________________________________________________________________ From: "Cheyne, James" To: "'Technet Moderator'" Subject: RE: Post00383 COOL IDEAS Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:14:45 -0700 Allan, Your latest 'cool idea' has stimulated a memory of a project I saw at least 20 years ago to retain the cold inside vaccine refrigerators. This was a proposal to incorporate a hanging curtain of transparent plastic strips just inside the door of a vaccine refrigerator. The health worker could take out what she (usually a she) wanted by putting her hand through the curtain and while minimizing the loss of cold air. Much larger plastic curtains are used in industrial cold rooms where workers have to go in and out of the cold room very frequently but are unwilling or unable to open and close the door many times a day. The 'curtain' resembles a vertical 'Venetian blind' so that it swings back into position after the person has passed thorough the doorway, or, in the case of the vaccine refrigerator, after the health worker has moved the vials of vaccine. I have no recollection who proposed this idea or what happened to it. Perhaps it should come out of cold storage. James ____________________________________*______________________________________ 2. PATH DELIVERY KIT GUIDE Siri Wood, PATH, kindly forwarded this announcement of the availability of the Basic Delivery Kit Guide, a step-by-step manual for developing delivery kit programs for program managers who wish to develop a basic delivery kit as part of their integrated maternal and child health programs. No electronic version of the guide is available at this time but a limited number of single copies are available free-of-charge, and multiple copies may be ordered from PATH at $15 each. To order copies of the Basic Delivery Kit Guide, send an e-mail to Adriane Pallat at [[email protected]][email protected][/email] ___________________________________________________________________________ From: "Wood, Siri" To: Technet Moderator'" Subject: PATH delivery kit guide announcement Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 Allan; I am writing to enquire as to whether the following announcement would be appropriate for inclusion in the electronic resource you publish. Thank you for your consideration. Best regards, Siri Wood IEC Program Officer Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) 4 Nickerson St. Seattle, Washington 98109 Tel: (206) 281-3556 Fax: (206) 285-6619 [email protected] http://www.path.org ___________________________________________________________________________ October 1, 2001 Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) has just published the Basic Delivery Kit Guide, a step-by-step manual for developing delivery kit programs. Designed for program managers who wish to develop a basic delivery kit as part of their integrated maternal and child health programs, this resource provides comprehensive and practical information on the design, development, distribution, and promotion of single-use, disposable delivery kits. The Basic Delivery Kit Guide was produced with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the HealthTech: Technologies for Health Project. The Guide explores the role of delivery kits in increasing the awareness and use of clean delivery practices by untrained and trained birth attendants as well as women delivering alone. In addition, the guide emphasizes the importance of integrating clean delivery programs with tetanus immunization programs in a combined effort to reduce maternal and neonatal tetanus and sepsis. The guide includes sections on Deciding Whether to Develop a Basic Delivery Kit Program, Designing a Basic Delivery Kit Program, Assembly, Distribution and Promotion, Sustaining and Evaluating Basic Delivery Kit Programs, and Program Recommendations. Each section contains detailed work tools for planning and conducting the activities necessary at each stage of delivery kit program development, as well as relevant case studies from the field. The guide also includes information on how to procure UNFPA kits. A limited number of single copies are available free-of-charge, and multiple copies may be ordered from PATH at $15 each. To order copies of the Basic Delivery Kit Guide, send an e-mail to Adriane Pallat at [email protected] or send a check with ordering information to the address below. Payment by major credit card can be arranged upon request. No electronic version of the guide is available at this time. Please note that after January 15, 2002, PATH Headquarters and Seattle Site will have a new address. Before January 15, 2002 Adriane Pallat PATH 4 Nickerson Street Seattle, Washington 98109 After January 15, 2002 Adriane Pallat PATH 1455 NW Leary Way Seattle, Washington 98107 _____________________________________*_____________________________________ 3. NEEDLE-FREE INJECTION TECHNOLOGY NEWS SERVICE This is an interesting listserve and web forum format. * Subscribe on the website: http://vaxdev.forum.cdc.gov click on new user to start the registration process. ___________________________________________________________________________ From: "Weniger, Bruce" To: Technet Moderator Subject: Needle-free Injection Technology News Service Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 Dear Allan, Would you kindly announce the availability of a newly-formatted Needle-free Injection Technology News Service (http://vaxdev.forum.cdc.gov) in one of your upcoming Technet postings? 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HEALTH INTERNETWORK PILOT [Crossposted from hif-net with thanks] ___________________________________________________________________________ From: [[email protected]][email protected][/email] To: [[email protected]][email protected][/email] Subject: Health InterNetwork [Forwarded with thanks from the email list GKD, an initiative of the Global Knowledge Partnership] India home to UN's first 'country pilot' for Health InterNetwork by Frederick Noronha CHENNAI, Sept 26 -- India is being built up as the first 'country pilot' for an ambitious United Nations-led international project, seeking to strengthen public health services by making use of the powerful potential of the Internet. "The Health InterNetwork (HIN) seeks to bridge the digital divide, as it affects health. Initially we're planning some pilots, and the first pilot is to be done in India," Health InterNetwork India project manager Ranjan Dwivedi told IANS here. This ambitious project is an initiative of the United Nations' Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who announced it as part of his Millennium Initiative. It is one of the four initiatives that the UN is to take up over the next 15 years. Its goal is to build existing capabilities using the power of the Internet and new ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) to empower those working in the field of health, and make their initiatives more effective. Once in place, the Health InterNetwork would seek to disseminate authentic and relevant information in the Third World, where access to information can still be costly or difficult. It aims to build up a web-based portal for facilitation of the dissemination of information. In addition, it will create access points by providing hardware, software and connectivity in some 130 countries. Currently, the plan is for creating 13,000 access points over a seven year period. Apart from this, one major task will be creating and garnering authentic health-related information. "We'll do so not by necessarily creating content ourselves, but locating and facilitating the creation of content in a digitised form which can be easily shared and facilitated over the web," Dwivedi told this correspondent. In addition, there will also be an initiative in capacity-building and training. This will help the target segment -- health service providers, policy-makers and researchers -- to access biomedical databases. "The WHO is just the lead agency to bring everybody together. This Health InterNetwork is seen as a big partnership -- between governments, civil society, corporate sector, NGOs and so on," Dwivedi said. Three-four pilot projects are currently being planned globally. But the first country-pilot is the one in India, says Dwivedi. There are other research pilots, where four countries in Africa, and four in Eastern Europe have combined. The endeavour there would be to provide international journals at equity-pricing to researchers in these eight countries. If this ambitious plan could be effectively implemented, its impact could be felt all over. "Because once you put it on the web, it's web-based facilitation, and it's accessible from anywhere in the whole world," says Dwivedi. Initially, in terms of creating access points to the Health InterNetwork however, work is to be done in two parts of India -- Orissa and rural Bangalore district. "There's a whole lot beyond there because we're also networking medical libraries, and creating a research network through the ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research). But all these initiatives are basically based and housed in institutions, to ensure the sustainability after the pilot is over," Dwivedi informed. In keeping with attempts to relate this work to an ongoing programme which is important priority in the country, early attempts will be linked to existing efforts in battling tuberculosis in India. "TB is the largest killer disease in the country. We've got the second-largest TB population in the world. It's a high-priority programme for the government. And it's 100% curable. So there are tremendous gains to be obtained in TB. TB is also a global priority for the WHO too," said Dwivedi, who is based at WHO's Delhi office. He explained that the pilot would be undertaken in India for a year, and results measured. On the basis of the learning gained from the pilot, it's scaled up here and replicated in other countries. One key aspect is that the perceived importance of this initiative will dictate its growth. "The money has to be raised. The money will come only if people see its relevance," he added. (ENDS) Contact details: Ranjan Dwivedi Project Manager Health InterNetwork -India Project WHO, Room No 530 A Wing Nirman Bhawan New Delhi 110011 Email [[email protected]][email protected][/email] Mobile 98105 05068