Nine officials from Egypt’s Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) strengthened their technical skills in Cold Chain Equipment Management (CCEM) during a 10-day training at the EAC Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunization and Health Supply Chain Management in Kigali, Rwanda (3–15 M...

VPPN Localisation Series: Webinar 1 - What to consider for local vaccine manufacturing? - 20 May 2025, 10am GMT+2 Link to register for the webinar Dear TechNet members, We are all talking about localising the production and procurement of immunisation supplies. The disparity of the distribut...

  National and subnational participants from Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan and Syria gathered at the Dead Sea, Jordan from 25 to 27 September to participate in a MENA Regional Workshop on Equity-Informed Microplanning. The workshop was organized by UNICEF MENARO in close tech...

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)...

Cross posted from http://www.childsurvival.net with many thanks to Robert Davis NOTE FROM ROBERT DAVIS INVITING CONTRIBUTIONS The Expanded Programme on Immunization, now the world's largest public health programme, is approaching its fortieth birthday. It got started in a small suite of offi...

While immunization partners involved in supporting vaccine supply chain (WHO, UNICEF’s CCL and Project Optimize ...) are collaborating and building on each others’ experiences, there are several pertinent questions to the field yet to be addressed: 1. Questions related to standby generators: Alt...

by Osman Mansoor and Kate Bai, UNICEF; Andrew Garnett, Consultant; and Solo Kone, WHO In December 2011, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosted a workshop in New York for the Cold Chain and Logistics (CCL) Taskforce. The main focus of the workshop was to review the Effective Vaccine Man...

Background: In 2010 the 63rd World Health Assembly called for a comprehensive response to viral hepatitis. As mandated by the WHA, from 2011 onwards, World Hepatitis Day is promoted on 28 July in order to provide an opportunity for awareness raising and greater understanding of viral hepatitis as...

Many thanks to Mojtaba Haghgou for sharing this with our readers. The TechNet21 website will soon have a software depot from which you will be able to download VSSM and other latest software. Vaccination Supply Stock Management (VSSM) version 4.7, is a computer application, now used in the centra...

The first global training on effective vaccine management by Hailu Makonnen Kenea, Souleymane Kone, and Modibo Dicko from WHO; and Andrew Garnett, consultant. On July 29, 2010, after ten days of intensive and interactive training, 29 global, regional, country, and independent cold chain and log...

Vaccination Supplies Stock Management (VSSM) was first developed in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) in late 2006 and the later versions were developed by receiving support from WHO HQs. VSSM has been used in Sudan and Egypt and recently was installed in Laos, Iran, Uzbekistan and no...

POST 01391E: VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO VIRUS 18 FEBRUARY 2009 ****************************************** In the context of the discussions on polio eradication on our forum (see POSTS: 01354E), these reports hold great interest. Cross-posting yet again from CSU, with a big thank you to Bob D...

POST 01045E : SOLAR REFRIGERATOR Follow-up on Posts 01019E, 01027E, 01032E and 01037E 25 January 2007 ___________________________________________ This posting contains a record number of six contributions, coming from : 1. Robyn McIntyre (mailto:[email protected]) from Fiji 2. N...

POST 00971E : COLD CHAIN CAPACITY ASSESSMENT Follow-up on Post 00965E 5 September 2006 _____________________________________ Three members copied to TechNet their response and comments to Robin Biellik's request. First that of Kalli Kachalla (mailto:[email protected]) from Nigeria,...

POST 00945E : MATERIAL OF INTEREST 24 June 2006 _______________________________________________________________ You will find below, first a slightly modified message from Robert Davis (mailto:[email protected]) from UNICEF/ESARO drawing our attention to the revised WHO guidelines on vacc...

POST 00874E : WHAT IS A POLIO CASE? 5 January 2006 _____________________________________ From a recently published article, Anthony Battersby (mailto:[email protected]) from the UK, asks some questions about polio that many of you may also have, unless quite familiar with polio eradica...

POST 00633E : POLIO ERADICATION 14 January 2004 ________________________________ Tomorrow (already today for many of you) at 13:50pm in WHO, Ministers of Health from Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Niger, Nigeria and Pakistan will sign the historical Geneva Declaration for the Eradication of Poli...

POST 00633E : POLIO ERADICATION 14 January 2004 ________________________________ Tomorrow (already today for many of you) at 13:50pm in WHO, Ministers of Health from Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Niger, Nigeria and Pakistan will sign the historical Geneva Declaration for the Eradication of Poli...

POST 00469E : ADVERSE EVENTS FOLLOWING IMMUNIZATION 8 July 2002 ____________________________________________________________ Many of you may already be aware of an incident involving measles vaccination in Cuba, as reported in the media and Promed-Mail, the Program for Monitoring Emerging D...