The new WHO EVM Assessment Tool (version 1.0.9) is available for download from the EVM restricted access website: https://extranet.who.int/evm . To install the tool: • Login to the restricted access website • Click Get EVM Tools • Download the Assessment Tool Installer (version 1.0.9) • Unzi...

Today in the PG Activity, PGs questioned me about 'Thermal assault' for which I could not get adequate references. As of now we need to keep the reconstituting diluent in the cold chain at least a day earlier to vaccination day so that it will not give a thermal assault to the lyophilized vaccine a...

This summary is being cross-posted from the IAPHL discussion forum with many thanks! The International Association of Public Health Logisticians has recently been engaged in an interesting discussion about demand forecasting. Here are a few highlights from the email exchange. This includes dema...

The popular Temperature Stability of Vaccines slides that were originally produced by Dr. Julie Milstien for the TechNet21 2006 consultation have been further updated. The authors have made some graphic changes based on feedback received from field trainings. You can access the document here: Te...

IPAC-2013Aprilreport-FINAL.pdf   This report covers the highlights of the meeting held in April 2013 in Geneva. The various sessions covered the following topics: Session I. Framework of the Unvaccinated The presentation covered the components of the Tools for Identifying Root Causes of C...

The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC), established in 2010, supports and advises the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB), with the review and/or formulation of immunization practices, operational standards, tools and technologies to strengthen an...

Till now, many countries were using relatively cheap vaccines for their EPI program and therefore the issue of vaccine wastage was not given much importance as the focus was on reaching maximum number of beneficiaries. But now given the fact that many countries have now introduced or are in the proc...

Hi all! Though I've looked around TechNet before and found some very insightful info, this is my first time to post! I'm a student intern at an organization that seeks to better understand the problems of the cold chain and reasons for vaccine wastage. With immunization programs in developing c...

GoI is planning to put in place open vial policy at the facility level. In that context I would like to get comments from the members on a draft opertional guideline. This has been prepared from WHO and other resources on open vial policy. We intend to draft a pictorial guidlines covering following ...

Does anyone have any idea where I could possibly find information about the number of vaccines wasted due to problems with things like freezing? Thanks....

In my humble opinion Michel and Robert have asked a useful question. Very often polio or other campaigns displace Measles and Bcg in subdistrict stores. The unwritten convention is to move them to the freezer. Especially since the vials are not as breakable as the old ampoules used earlier Usually f...

Temperature Monitoring Study To Commence in Vietnam and Uganda by Joanie Robertson, Huong Vu and James Cheyne, PATH While some vaccines will lose their potency if they are stored at temperatures above or below the standard 2° to 8°C, many vaccines are quite heat stable and can tolerate temperatures...

As a part of study aimed towards assessing the magnitude and key drivers of vaccine wastage rate, the general understanding is that wastage rates are typically higher for multi-dose vial vaccines in comparison to single dose vial vaccines. Also, while key drivers of wastage such as expiry, freezing,...

Modeling tools under developmentby Tessa Tan-Torres, WHO; Linda Allain, USAID | DELIVER PROJECT; Bruce Lee, University of Pittsburgh; and Carol Levin, PATH If developing countries are to meet their populations’ health needs, they must ensure that their supply chains are able to cope with the increas...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its final draft of Model requirements for the storage and transport of time and temperature sensitive pharmaceutical products for general public review. Review and comment period is open until July 31st, 2010. This long-awaited guideline, prepa...

Vaccine Wastage Assessment, India By Ranjit Dhiman / Satish Kumar Gupta- UNICEF India In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Government of India, UNICEF with WHO and partners carried out a vaccine wastage assessment in India. The aim of the study was to understand current vaccine wastage at v...

Information gathered from the Health Ministry through the RTI Act confirms the overall shortage of 17 crore doses for diphtheria, measles, tetanus and oral polio vaccine.The shortage for diphtheria vaccine is nine crore doses, followed by 3.14 crore for tetanus, three crore for oral polio vaccine an...

POST 01153E : STOCK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Follow-up on Posts 01138E, 01127E and 01114E 4 September 2007 __________________________________ Dear Technet21 E-Forum, It is very encouraging that UNICEF/WHO have now produced a Vaccine Stock Management tool. At central level and regional levels, where ...

POST 00936E : WASTAGE RATES Follow-up on Posts 00906E and 00910E 6 June 2006 ______________________________________________________________ This discussion is derived from another initiated in Post 00889E by questions on a new WHO site submitted by Femi Obegdami. This posting contai...

POST 00915E : VACCINE WASTAGE Follow-up on Posts 00889E, 00894E, 00899E, 00906E and 00910E 22 April 2006 ________________________________________________________________ This posting contains three contributions. The first is from Bibata Pare (mailto:[email protected]) from Burkina ...