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...

Excited to share that my book chapter has just been published! Approximately 1.9 billion people live in fragile and conflict-affected settings, yet vaccine design and evaluation continue to assume stable delivery conditions. This chapter challenges that paradigm. -Drawing on evidence from vaccine...

GiveWell is looking to identify programs that increase the uptake of routine childhood immunizations by bringing vaccination services closer to communities through targeted outreach sessions or mobile vaccination. We think these programs have the potential to be highly cost-effective and scalable an...

Dear Colleaques, Happy to share the latest edition of ImmunizationForResilienceNewsletter, titled: "Cholera 2026: When The System Sees It Coming But Cannot Move - The Scenario Nobody Talks About" This edition looks at a reality many teams face in 2026: community-based surveillance can be function...

Hello Everyone, I wanted to share a new op-ed, co-authored by Last Mile Health and VillageReach, that highlights how community health workers (CHWs) are driving meaningful improvements in vaccine access across Africa — especially for zero-dose and under-immunized children. The piece, published on ...

To mark World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day on 17 November, VillageReach invites you to the online premiere of our short film, Peer-to-Peer Learning to Improve HPV Vaccine Coverage. This film highlights how communities in Manica Province, Mozambique are working together to improve HPV v...

VillageReach just published a new brief calling for expanding CHWs' role in immunization services. From outreach to planning to vaccine administration CHWs can help reach more people with vaccines.  What CHW centric approaches have you seen work well in your work? What approaches would y...

Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to share the latest edition of my newsletter on immunization in fragile and conflict-affected settings. In 2025, disease control is not just biological, it is geopolitical. When social systems fracture through unrest or war, immunization collapses quickly, zero-dose poc...

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to share an analysis and discussion on Cameroon’s HPV vaccination crisis as reflected in WUENIC 2024 data. Coverage declined from 68% in 2023 to 36% in 2024, increasing the risk of preventable cervical cancer among adolescent girls. The latest Immunization for Resilie...

Dear Colleaques, The Immunization for Resilience newsletter is delighted to announce our first commentary in the peer-reviewed journal, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, Taylor & Francis Group.“Closing the Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Gap in Cameroon: Global Evidence and Policy Imperatives,” o...

REGISTER HERE: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ArPqP2JCTLeT3WA-0zYSOA   On Wednesday 1 October, 14:00-16:00 CET Protection from birth: Expanding access to hepatitis B birth dose WHO estimates that 254 million people were living with chronic hepatitis B infection (HBV) in 20...

Can respiratory syncytial virus vaccine give life long protection when immunized during pregrancy or need booster dose how many times?...

Dear TechNet colleagues, Thank you for the opportunity to share this with the community. In line with TechNet’s promotional policy, I am posting here to introduce my weekly newsletter and invite collaboration and feedback. What it is Immunization for Resilience is a weekly update that synthesizes...

Dear TechNet community, The World Bank is hosting a webinar on June 17th, 2025, highlighting the key achievements during Uganda's HPV scale up campaign in the 12 poorly performing districts and its linkage to the broader adolescent health improvement strategy. In case this is of interest, I th...

What could be the specific immunization schedule for premature baby considering weight etc.? ...

A new publication in BMC Health Services Research by ThinkWell shows the cost of delivering COVID-19 vaccines in Mozambique during the first year it was introduced. The study covers two time periods: the initial supply constrained period of the rollout in March-April 2021 and a later, higher-volume ...

As the mpox outbreak in the DRC and other African countries continues, it is critical to understand what it may cost to get mpox vaccines to those who are most at risk. In this blog post, Laura Boonstoppel and Flavia Moi at ThinkWell, explain why they think mpox vaccines will be much more expensive ...

Findings from bottom-up costing studies of integrated vaccination campaigns in Nigeria and Sierra Leone have been published in BMC Health Services Research. The research, conducted by ThinkWell and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, estimated the costs of a campaign held in 2019 in Sierra Leone with...

Bonjour à tous, question : un vaccin qui respecte la politique des flacons entamés, un vaccin ouvert qui sera utilisé à cheval entre 2 mois, quelle est la meilleure méthode de comptabiliser de rapporter les doses utilisées et surtout le flacon ? Est-ce avec le mois d'ouverture ou le mois de fermetur...

On October 6, 2023, HLN released a new version (v1.40.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) to several vaccine groups. ICE is a state-of-the-art open source software system that provides clinical decision support for immunizations for use in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electron...