In August 2021, the World Health Organization developed the first web-based equipment Inventory and Gap Analysis (IGA 1.0) application to help ease the burden on countries for collecting and analyzing equipment inventory data. The web-based software has a complete functionality, is open-source and ...

Hi Colleagues, I'm looking for a protocol to check the temperature during a vaccination campaign using door-to-door strategy. The study will cover the journey of the vials from the central store to the beneficiary with a focus on the leg from point of service to benficiaries and back to point of se...

Dear Technet colleagues, We hope this email finds you well. We wanted to share with you all an exciting new publication from the USAID's Global Health Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply ...

How many vials vcan be stored in a freeze free vaccine carrier? ...

COVID-19 Listening & Learning Session: How to set up + maintain a mass vaccination site Wednesday, November 17 at 3:00 PM GMT (click here to check your local time) Last month, the Boost released a COVID-19 Listening & Learning series podcast episode highlighting i...

In African countries during vaccination campaigns or outreach activities in distant places, traditional cold boxes used for vaccine transport may stay cold for a maximum of about four days (if not opened frequently) in ambient temperatures of around 30°C. Health workers some times need to carry froz...

what is the best method to increase holdover time in less no of ice packs? ...

Une riposte contre le CVDPV2 est organisée dans une zone de santé quelconque, lors de l inventaire des matériels de chaîne de froid l equipe de riposte se rend compte qu il n y a pas assez de boîtes isothermes (BI) pour les équipes de vaccinations, 20 BI pour 94 équipes, la sous commission logistiqu...

We ask for your opinion and assessment: We are pleased to announce that some days ago we were able to hand over our series-ready Solar-Hybrid PCM Reefer (island solution) SUNTAINER. Please watch the video here (90 seconds): https://youtu.be/hFN9o2wvEJ4 The production took place in technical inf...

Recent developments in refrigerator technology offer healthcare workers the ability to store vaccines in portable active (powered) refrigeration devices, rather than in traditional passive vaccine carriers. It’s an intriguing idea that offers the potential to both increase the length of time that va...

Hello everyone, I'm a design engineering student working on designing and producing a new powered vaccine carrier, and I was hoping to get some information and feedback from those of you who are out in the field providing immunisations and delivering vaccines to remote communities.  I'm also ...

Dear Technet community, Hope you’re well. I’d like to share a short article I wrote (published on May 15) making the case to immediately start planning for COVID-19 immunization delivery and suggesting activities to focus on now. The article focuses on India, but the core points and suggestions fo...

We are so glad to announce that after 2 years hard working, after making the freeze free vaccine carrier realized,we overcome the difficulties to get freeze free vaccine cold box WHO/PQS qualified! It is hard to believe that happen to a new supplier unless you see our investment and persistence. We...

After reading Umit's book my interest in what I call the "buffered Cold Chain" BCC, was renewed.In his book I found the history and the description of the obstacles which were overcome very interesting. By BCC I mean a cold chain which will maintain temperatures between 20 degC and 25 degC . These ...

Dear TechNet-21 community, Further to the publication of the English and French versions of the Decommissioning and safe disposal of cold chain equipment guidance earlier this year (available here https://bit.ly/2xTLDYa), we are glad to share with you that the Arabic and Russian versions of the doc...

Three years after the freeze-free concept was reported at the September 2014 meeting of the WHO PQS Committee, the current expectation of availability remains ‘sometime next year’ and it appears that no product has passed the pre-qualification (E004/VC02-VP.1) testing yet. The current status of thi...

Dear viewers We wish to share the attached revised version vaccine storage code in the new model of Ice Lined Refrigerator, supplied recently to the planning units in Karnataka and India. Karnataka is going to practice soon and we hope the whole country may also follow the same as it is practicable...

Green Energy Limited has developed an off-grid solar generator with lithium battery storage backpack. It is designed to provide continuous off-grid electricity to refugees, disaster victims, medical clinics, schools and matches domestic electricity requirement. We have been conducting a project in L...

All, I am trying to solve the following problem... We have small medical teams that travel to remote locations, to deliver vaccines to patients. Many of the routes are through jungle, mountains, dessert, etc and take several hours or longer to reach to destination. The teams use motorbikes, and ...

A new PQS freeze protected vaccine carrier has been approved. The incorporation of this new carrier would solve a serious problem but at a considerable cost. PATH estimates that 2 million carriers would have to be replaced. Several years ago we had been working on a freeze protection method which i...