The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are collaborating to strengthen implementation of home-based records. An implementation guide to support countries in reviewing their home-based records is under development; Fuse ForeSight will be supp...

A home-based vaccination record is a document (more often physical rather than electronic) --- issued by an official authority (may be sub-national or national) to an individual person and maintained in the household by an individual or individual’s caregiver (e.g., mother, father, grandparent, etc)...

Member States Delegates discuss progress towards global immunization goals at the World Health Assembly, May 2014 Fifty-four speakers including 50 representatives from Member States[1], one Observer[2], Civil Society Organizations[3] and the GAVI Alliance took the floor during the discussion on t...

Here is a summary of interventions made by country delegations during the GVAP discussion at the WHO Executive Board on 21 January. - A number of delegations mentioned the importance of including measles elimination as part of the GVAP (there was some discussion as to whether it should be eradi...

by Terry Hart and Julian Bilous, consultants, and Osman David Mansoor, UNICEF In 2006, the Government of Japan offered funding to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to help countries prevent and prepare for future influenza pandemics. Recognizing that support from cold chain and logistics ...

The Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning website launched a new module on 7 October to support the World Health Organization's computer-based Measles Strategic Planning (MSP) tool. The MSP was developed to help countries develop measles vaccination strategies to meet their measles contr...

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...

The Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning website recently launched a new module to help decision-making on rotavirus vaccine introduction. The module provides comprehensive information from basic disease characteristics through immunization session planning; this interactive online to...

POST 01372E: E-LEARNING MODULES—IMMUNIZATION FINANCING/ INTRODUCING NEW VACCINES 11 JANUARY 2009 ****************************************** Padmini, A useful introduction to the subject is AIM e-Learning: Immunization Financing Module at www.aim.path.org/en/finance/index.html Tasnim Parta...

POST 01307E: HEALTHCARE WASTE MANAGEMENT: NEED FOR TRAINING/SUPERVISION FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01295E, 01296E & 01305E 19 AUGUST 2008 ******************************************* Dear Friends, In Developing country settings (like India) Biomedical Waste Management is given low priority...

POST 01222E: SMALL-SCALE INCINERATORS FOR SAFETY BOXES 5FEBRUARY 2008 Follow-up on post: POST 01220E ************************************************************ In response to the question you raised about a small-scale incinerator that can burn safety boxes, I wish to direct you to cont...

POST 01080E : NEW REFRIGERATOR EVALUATION 16 April 2007 ____________________________________ A field evaluation summary of a new vaccine refrigerator is available at the following link : http://www.technet21.org/fichiers_Word/Twinbird_REV1.doc PATH evaluated 3 units in Indonesia in 200...

POST 01070E : BCG EFFICACY QUESTIONED 27 March 2007 ____________________________________ NOTE : Most of you will have picked up the error in the link to the article on the ethics of compulsory vaccination. It is not even the first time I make this same mistake, a "w" instead of an "e" in the...

POST 00947E : THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE Follow-up on Posts 00917E, 00923E, 00931E, 00937E and 00942E 27 June 2006 _________________________________________________________________ The first contribution in this posting comes from Anil Varshney (mailto:[email protected]) from India....

POST 00912E : JE VACCINE INTRODUCTION 17 April 2006 ________________________________ Vikram Singh (mailto:[email protected]) from India, contributes some information of interest on the introduction of Japanese Encephalitis vaccination in India. The information he requests has been sent to him ...

POST 00799E : ERADICATION 12 June 2005 _____________________________________ It seems that I am in another string of mistakes from my part. My apologies! The links below are corrected, I had obviously forgotten the extension to our site. Robert Davis (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from UNICEF/ES...

POST 00799E : ERADICATION 12 June 2005 _____________________________________ It seems that I am in another string of mistakes from my part. My apologies! The links below are corrected, I had obviously forgotten the extension to our site. Robert Davis (mailto:[email protected]) from UNICEF...

POST 00731E : MULTI-YEAR PLAN Follow-up on Post 00729E 19 December 2004 _____________________________________ Two Multi-Year Plans have been sent by Manju Rani (mailto:[email protected]) from the Expanded Program on Immunization, Western Pacific Regional Office of WHO in Manila. The Cam...

POST 00708E : ACCIDENTAL NEEDLESTICK Follow-up on Posts 00701E and 00706E 21 August 2004 _______________________________ Amber Hogan (mailto:[email protected]) from the United States discusses preventive measures of accidental needlesticks. _______________________________ Best practi...

POST 00642E : IMPROVING COVERAGE 25 February 2004 ___________________________________ Posting by the moderator : Those of you who have looked at the TechNet meeting agenda in details will have noticed a session on "Improving Coverage" Tuesday, 23 March. This is quite important as ...