Despite starting the national COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in June 2021, coverage remained low in Chad in early 2022, with 0.8% of the population fully vaccinated and 26% of doses received being administered. In January 2022, Chad was considered one of the 13 “very high-risk” countries as per the WHO...

UPDATE (5 MAY) This working copy of the document Considerations for optimizing deployment of ChAdOx1-S [recombinant] vaccines in a time-limited constrained supply situation (AstraZeneca/AZD1222-Vaxzevria, AstraZeneca/SK Bioscience and SII/Covishield vaccines) provides an overview of the scientific ...

Dear All, I re-edited the write up for including a few more photos and re-arranged them in sequence, this being my first experience in sharing with techNet.   I am sharing my experiences with the planning and administration of the Covishield vaccine from the Serum institute of India.&nbs...

Hi everyone,  Is any short training on Immunization data management available in 2019? Please let me know. I am interested to participate.  Thank you and best regards.  Chadralal...

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...

National vaccine logistics systems, originally designed in the 1980s, are today confronted to a real revolution in the following aspects: Broader range of vaccines and greater diversity of service delivery strategies Solarization and digitization of the supply chain: CCEOP, remote temperature mo...

Les systèmes nationaux de logistique vaccinale, conçus au départ dans les années 80, sont aujourd’hui confrontés à une véritable révolution qui se décline sous les aspects suivants : Gamme plus étendue de vaccins et diversité plus grande des stratégies de prestation de services Solarisation et d...

Posting by: David W Brown, Brown Consulting Group International, LLC, North Carolina, USA Marta Gacic-Dobo, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland The WHO and UNICEF recommend that immunization programmes order and supply vaccines bundled with safe-injection equipment (e.g., diluents, aut...

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In recognition that an increasing number of vaccines are able to tolerate temperatures well above those officially stated on their labels, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been supporting efforts to assess and take advantage of the true heat stability of vaccines. Upstream work in this regard...

The results of a study conducted by Epicentre /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) assessing the immunogenicity and safety of a tetanus toxoid vaccine have been recently published in Vaccine.[sup]1 [/sup] The study was conducted in collaboration with the Project Optimize, the Belgian Institute of Public...

The LOGIVAC project, jointly implemented by the Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) , has launched, in collaboration with the Regional Institute of Public Health (Institut Régional de Santé Publique, IRSP), the first training degree programme in health logist...

This article appears in the 23 June 2011 issue of Vaccine: "Assessing the potency of oral polio vaccine kept outside of the cold chain during a national immunization campaign in Chad". This study provides proof-of-concept evidence that certain typs of OPV remain potent and thus can be kept, for limi...

POST 01078E : MEASLES MORTALITY 14 April 2007 ____________________________________ We all had cheered at the achievement of the MDG's measles mortality reduction. In a more sobering tone the two following articles remind us that the battle against measles isn't won yet and there is still m...

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Post00334 GAVI DONATIONS - INJECTION WASTE DISPOSAL 10 April 2001 CONTENTS 1. GAVI DONATIONS - INJECTION WASTE DISPOSAL ISSUES 2. NEW CONTACT DETAILS - THE COLLABORATIVE CENTRE FOR COLD CHAIN MANAGEMENT 1. GAVI DONATIONS - INJECTION WASTE DISPOSAL ISSUES The GAVI/CVP supported additio...

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Post00278 GAVI GUIDELINES FORMS + VAX INTRO + UPDATES 20 September 2000 CONTENTS 1. REVISED GAVI APPLICATION FILES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD 2. WHO & ACCELERATED VACCINE INTRODUCTION 3. DOWNLOAD GUIDELINES AND FORMS: ASSESSMENT OF IMMUNIZATION SERVICES 4. GAVI & GFCV INFORMATION UPDATE 8 SEPT...

Post00258 POLIO ERADICATION TARGET 19 June 2000 CONTENTS 1. CORRECTION: POLIO ERADICATION TARGET NOW 2005 2. POLIO NEWS 1. CORRECTION: POLIO ERADICATION TARGET NOW 2005 In Post00252, Polio Eradication Target Now 2005, 18 May 2000, TECHNET Forum posted an article from the associated P...