Link to register for the webinar Dear TechNet members, You are invited to join us on Tuesday, 9 September, at 10am GMT+2, for the second and final webinar in our localisation series. Following a first event titled "What to consider for local vaccine manufacturing?", this webinar will focus on...

My name is Isti from Indonesia.  I am currently researching cold chain maintanance practice in Indonesia focusing on Planned Preventive Maintanance. A little background for the PPM practice in Indonesia; several districts have implemented PPM and has a dedicated budget line for Cold chain main...

Hello,   Greetings!!   Empower, in collaboration with WHO SEARO, is pleased to announce the launch of the Emergency Outbreak Response Platform for 11 South & Southeast Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, DPR Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailan...

Dear All, USAID is partnering with Digital Square to assess how governments and investors can harness existing digital tools and platforms to efficiently support response efforts in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including supporting vaccine planning, distribution and monitoring.  We nee...

Value-based procurement (VBP) evaluates potential new products, services and solutions based on value for money rather than the lowest purchase price. VBP evaluation criteria include benefits to patients, service providers, national health systems and health technology management teams. VBP also con...

The story of a time and temperature indicator (vaccine vial monitor) that has dramatically changed the course of vaccine management practices as well as shaped the future of cold chain, THE BOOK OF VVM: YESTERDAY-TODAY-and-TOMORROW is now available for free download in ePUB3 and PDF formats. http:/...

A WHO software application, the Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT), conceptualized by Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor and Anne Schlotheuber of the department of Information, Evidence and Research, came "highly commended" in the prestigious British Medical Association (BMA) book competition on 4 Septembe...

You will find in the TechNet-21 Resource Library the recently released WHO report "Explorations of Inequality: Childhood Immunization"  and its accompanying interactive data visuals: https://www.technet-21.org/en/library/main/4912-explorations-of-inequality-childhood-immunization The report descri...

Between 21 and 24 February 2017, the “Training for the comprehensive analysis of vaccination coverage surveys” was held in Kathmandu, Nepal. This training brought together 25 participants from Ministries of Health, National Statistics Offices (NSOs) and research institutes from Cambodia, China, Indo...

Dear TechNet-21 Members, we invite you to follow a moderated discussion just getting started on the International Association of Public Health Logisticians (IAPHL) listserve. You can join the IAHPL, follow the conversation, or sign up for emails here: https://knowledge-gateway.org/iaphl/ We hope yo...

Twenty-three speakers including 21 representatives from Member States (i.e. 15[2]), and two civil society organizations[4] and took note of the recommendations. While Member States acknowledged successes in a few areas, most notably the absence of wild polio virus cases in the African region and mo...

As you may know, immunization was on the agenda at the World Health Assembly in May. This year, PATH listened specifically for references to immunization supply chains and logistics. A few official statements mentioned supply chain, cold chain or logistics, but usually in a list of issues to be add...

The 'Moving Warehouse' (MW) system of vaccine distribution issues vaccine as needed from a mobile stock to a series of stores situated on a pre-planned delivery circuit. MW has proved to be the best of the available choices in countries of three regions, by achieving the following comparative advant...

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...

by Kamel Senouci and Lara Gautier, AMP Many national immunization programs rely on the professional advice of national immunization technical advisory groups (NITAGs) to help them make critical decisions on introducing new vaccines. Implemented in April 2008 by Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP)...

by Kamel Senouci, AMP and Liliana Chocarro, Consultant As a wider array of vaccines become available in developing countries, many national immunization programs are starting to rely on the professional advice of National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) to help them make critical ...

by Simona Zipursky, PATH; Christoph Conrad, WHO/Quality, Safety & Standards; Tony Richardson, CDC/Vaccine Supply & Assurance Branch They call it the Decade of Vaccines for a reason. More new vaccines will become available between 2010 and 2020 than all previous decades combined. Not onl...

This message has been cross-posted from HPV Vaccine Global Community of Practice. With many thanks to Robert Steinglass. Dear Lisa, I agree with Sarah Mullins that there is a great opportunity to find links with a larger package of interventions, including tetanus vaccination. The following four r...

UPDATE ON MATERNAL NEONATAL TETANUS ELIMINATION AS OF OCTOBER 2010 WHO/CHERG estimates for causes of child mortality show that Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) was responsible for 59,000 neonatal deaths in 2008.Though the figure shows a 92% reduction in mortality from the 800,000 deaths estima...

China considers VVMs by Qiyou Xiao, China National Biotec Group; Shuyan Zuo, WHO China; and Jack Zhang, PATH China In June, the first national seminar and information session about the necessity and feasibility of using vaccine vial monitors (VVMs) on domestically produced vaccines used in China w...