Dear all  Greetings from KVG team and wish to share the following with the viewers for needful. Write-up As per World Health Organization (WHO) there is "no evidence" that the BCG vaccine protects against COVID-19. Initially, WHO also stated that there were no enough evidences of airborne tr...

Dear All, So pleased to share the great news that yesterday, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines and other health products in an effort to expand access. The draft resolution is on the WHA website: http://apps.who.int/gb/e/...

Vac-4-All and MRTC Launch multi-centre Malaria Vaccine Efficacy Trial in Mali Vac-4-All, a new vaccine development initiative, and the Malaria Research and Training Centre (MRTC), a public research and training facility of the University of Bamako in the Republic of Mali, have completed ...

POST 01299E: ALTERNATIVE USE OF PORTABLE STEAM STERILIZERS 5 AUGUST 2008 ******************************************* Apologies for the delay in posting this query and the response -------- Dear all, I would like to thank everyone for all those informative articles posted in this forum...

POST 00445E : IMPACT OF VACCINE VIAL MONITORS (VVM) ON THE USE and DELIVERY OF MEASLES VACCINE Follow-up on Posts 00433E, 00441E and 00444E 12 April 2002 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Nguyen Van Cuong, Vietnam National EPI Secre...

POST 00444E : IMPACT OF VACCINE VIAL MONITORS (VVM) ON THE USE and DELIVERY OF MEASLES VACCINE Follow-up on Posts 00433E and 00441E 3 April 2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ �mit Kartoglu further contributes on the topic of VVM use for...

POST 00417E : NEEDLE-FREE INJECTOR FOR MASS IMMUNIZATION CAMPAIGN Follow-up on Posts 00405E, 00408E and 00411E 22 January 2002 _____________________________________________________________________ Hans Everts of WHO, tells us that some ten years ago he has worked extensively with now outl...

Post00343 VACCINE FREEZING: WHY IS THE COLD CHAIN TOO COLD? 20 May 2001 CONTENTS 1. WHY IS THE COLD CHAIN TOO COLD? MORE..... 2. HEP-B OUT OF THE COLD CHAIN? 3. VVMs ON VACCINES 1. WHY IS THE COLD CHAIN TOO COLD? MORE..... The freezing point of Hepatitis B vaccine is -0.5'C The f...

1. WHY IS THE COLD CHAIN TOO COLD? Soren Spanner, WHO/SEARO, kindly posts the file of his recent presentation at the Asia-Pacific Regional Working Group Briefing, March 2001. The findings of a multi year-multi site study, including a clear description of the failure modes leading to frequent long ...

Post00325 VACCINE VIAL MONITORS 1 March 2001 CONTENTS 1. VVM - DRY ICE TROUBLE? NO! MORE! 2. VVM ON VACCINES: CURRENT STATUS AND PLANNED ROLLOUT 1. VVM - DRY ICE TROUBLE? NO! MORE! In Technet Forum Post00314, VVM - DRY ICE TROUBLE? NO!, 25 January 2001, Fred Simiyu, WHO Nigeria, re...

Post00325 VACCINE VIAL MONITORS 1 March 2001 CONTENTS 1. VVM - DRY ICE TROUBLE? NO! MORE! 2. VVM ON VACCINES: CURRENT STATUS AND PLANNED ROLLOUT 1. VVM - DRY ICE TROUBLE? NO! MORE! In Technet Forum Post00314, VVM - DRY ICE TROUBLE? NO!, 25 January 2001, Fred Simiyu, WHO Nigeria, re...

Post00301 VACCINE FREEZING: REFERENCES 28 November 2000 CONTENTS 1. VACCINE FREEZING: REFERENCES This list of reference documents on vaccine freezing was kindly posted by Debbie Kristensen, PATH. The problem of vaccine freezing has been around since the earliest days of the Expanded P...

Post00252 POLIO ERADICATION TARGET NOW 2005 18 May 2000 CONTENTS 1. UN POLIO CAMPAIGN SUFFERS SETBACKS 2. ON TRACK FOR A WORLD CERTIFIED POLIO-FREE IN 2005 1. UN POLIO CAMPAIGN SUFFERS SETBACKS From the Associated Press: "The global campaign to eradicate polio has been hindered by...

Post00241 Polio + NIDS 11 April 2000 CONTENTS 1. SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE DURING NIDS + TIP SHEET 2. MASSIVE EFFORT TO DELIVER ONE BILLION DOSES OF POLIO VACCINE IN INDIA 3. FINAL PUSH IN CAMPAIGN TO ERADICATE POLIO 4. WHEN AND HOW TO STOP POLIO VACCINATION AFTER THE DISEASE IS E...