Icelined refrigerators have become a dominant standard worldwide for the safe storage of vaccine in areas of unreliable electricity supplies. In the 35 years since the start of the Product Information Sheets not a single upright, domestic compression refrigerator has been posted in the pre-qualified...

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...

POST 00468E : ELIMINATION OF POLIO FROM AFRICA BY 2005 2 July 2002 _____________________________________________________________ Many of you have followed with interest the meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the Group of Eight (G8) recently held in Kananaskis, Canada. The initi...

POST 00412E : PROTECTION OF MORE COLD-SENSITIVE VACCINES Follow-up on Posts 00391E (26 November 2001), 00400E (19 December 2001), 00404E (4 January 2002) and 00406E (Freezing and vaccine efficacy, 5 January 2002) January 2002 _______________________________________________________________...

Post00338 EPI WASTE 1 May 2001 CONTENTS 1. DISPOSAL OF UNUSED VACCINE VIALS 2. GAVI DONATIONS - INJECTION WASTE DISPOSAL Continued 3. HEALTH-CARE WASTE MANAGEMENT DRAFT RAPID ASSESSMENT TOOL 4. FROM GAVI IMMUNIZATION FOCUS: FIRST, DO NO HARM 1. DISPOSAL OF UNUSED VACCINE VIALS T...