Abstract from an article written by our EPI Ghana team. Comments are welcome! For the full article please go to: http://www.sciforschenonline.org/journals/vaccines/article-data/IJVI-1-104/IJVI-1-104.pdf Background: WHO and UNICEF supported Ghana to conduct Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) assess...

Veuillez trouver ci-dessous les liens concernant trois documents, liés à la gestion efficace des vaccins, qui sont dès à présent disponibles en français: • COMMENT UTILISER LES CONTENEURS PASSIFS ET LES BRIQUETTES À EFFET ISOTHERME POUR LE TRANSPORT DES VACCINS ET LES OPÉRATIONS EN PÉRIPHÉRIE ht...

Dear viewers In one of the Training of Trainers programme in 1990’s at Chennai, a resource person told that ‘ASA’ – Attention, Suspicion and Authority are the 3 important elements of any good surveillance. Through high sensitivity, observational capacity, timely reporting often rare syndromes were...

Dear Supply Chain Managers and Friends, A few days ago, I conducted a supervisory visit to a health post in Senegal to check the implementation of the "Informed Push Model" project (IPM), which I have lead since last August, and which has been distributing family planning products (9 to 11 products...

Within the next ten years access will be extended to immunization for the families of approximately 20% of the world’s new-borns who have never seen the health service. Some will be located in remote areas that suffer from lack of infrastructure, hostile topography and extreme temperatures. Reachi...

Immunization outreach services depend on a protective, affordable and efficient supply chain to benefit rather than obstruct outreach operations. Four potential cold-chain solutions are on offer but each has barriers to be negotiated or removed. The options are: Frozen water packs BUT we should s...

This is motivated by John Lloyd's recent post about a supply chain for outreach immunization, which I found very interesting. My question is somewhat peripherally related though. As some background, I am an academic who focuses on supply chain analysis, and in particular, I have worked a fair bit on...

Reposted from JSI's The Pump Jeff Sanderson,Senior Technical Advisor African immunization supply chains need to be transformed. Between 2010 and 2020, new vaccine introductions will quadruple the volume of vaccines per immunized child. The number of vaccine doses that health workers will adminis...

How best can a less developed country like Uganda conduct a cost effective POD in real time after trucks have delivered?...

“You can’t vaccinate a child with a mobile phone.”Andrea Coleman, co-founder, Riders for Health Technology is all the rage in global health programs, from immunization and child survival to reproductive and maternal health, to malaria, HIV and TB programs. mHealth platforms proliferate, eHealth app...

The way forward As maternal and child health advocates, how can we support the adoption of next-generation supply chains so that products successfully reach the women and children who most urgently need them? Read on... http://globalhealth.org/delivering-health-services-to-women-and-children-how-s...

Dear Colleagues Is there any guidance (ideally offical and/or anecdotal) on transportation of non cold chain items in refrigerated vehicles? Assuming vehicles have space, (are making journeys less than half full), are there any concerns about transporting non cold chain, vaccine related supplies (...

In a new article on the RBFHealth blog, Brian Serumaga, supply chain technical advisor with the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, discusses the role of the central medical store in strengthening the performance of health supply chains and the findings of a recent results-based financing pilot in Mozambique. ...

Dear Technet21 Members, I would like to take the opportunity to introduce a new course to you. ‘Managing Human Resources in Health and Humanitarian Supply Chains: Strategies, Tools and Techniques’. This course will be offered by Pamela Steele Associates (PSA) in Oxford, 30th November and 4th Dec...

Vaccine vial size – the total number of doses a single vaccine vial contains – can have a significant impact on vaccine distribution, costs, and use, according to a paper recently published in the journalVaccine. In the study titled “One Size Does Not Fit All: The Impact of Primary Vaccine Containe...

Many country vaccine distribution systems in low to middle income countries feature scheduled deliveries from central to intermediate level stores. But they depend on collection or a mix of collection and delivery at service delivery level of the system. The mode of travel varies as transport becom...

by Dan Brigden, WHO Over the last five years, project Optimize has worked closely with national immunization programs to explore innovative solutions to supply chain challenges. Each project has attempted to solve a particular immunization challenge—from an electronic immunization registry in Alb...

This is the third posting I have made on in-country transport of vaccine. The first two postings opened issues for discussion on vaccine storage temperatures and on optimizing inter-store transfers. This posting focuses on transport for outreach immunization in the context of a passive-cooled supply...

This is the first of a series of TechNet postings to assess alternative definitions of field-level indicator(s) matching each of the proposed monitoring objectives. For now and based on this posting, please let me know your feedback: Are any of these objectives NOT needed to monitor distribution?...

Dear TechNet 21 Members, Thank you to those who have taken part in our survey so far. We have had more than 100 contributors from many countries but we still need more. PtD is leading the development of a 'SCM Leadership Competency Framework' as part of the GAVI People and Practice Workin...