Dear colleagues, The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its first Global Youth Competition on Influenza and COVID-19 Prevention and Control, inviting young people aged 18–35 years to submit creative videos on how to protect themselves and their loved ones from influenza and/or COVID-19....

Request for Expression of Interest (EOI): Development, Manufacturing, and Distribution of Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) and Enzyme Immunoassays (EIAs) for Acute Typhoid Fever Surveillance Typhoid fever (TF) is a severe systemic illness associated with abdominal pain, fever and occasionally can be l...

Market Intelligence Series: Webinar 3 - How can market intelligence help with understanding vaccine markets to inform a procurement strategy? Register for the webinar here Dear TechNet members, UNICEF's Vaccine Procurement Practitioners Network (VPPN) will conclude its series on the theme of ...

We are happy to share that the technical resources toolbox for HPV vaccination programs on TechNet-21 have undergone updates! Over 35 new resources such as tools, journal articles, presentations, infographics, guidance documents (and more!) have been uploaded to the toolbox. New additions include ke...

RegistrationLink to register for the webinar Dear members, UNICEF's Vaccine Procurement Practitioners Network, together with WHO, are glad to invite you to the second webinar of a 3-part series on market intelligence, that will be held on Thursday, 19 September 2024, from 10am to 10.45am GMT+2...

Parsyl and Berlinger partner to strenghten cold chain monitoring in LMIC. This is done by ensuring validated compatibility between the data generated by Berlinger's Fridge-tags and Q-tags on one hand, and the supply chain insurance solutions of Parsyl on the other hand. Your temperature data can ...

INFUSE 2024 call for innovations Gavi is proud to announce that INFUSE 2024 is actively seeking innovative solutions uniquely positioned to enhance health systems, enabling them to effectively manage resilient and climate-adaptive responses to climate threats.  *** Gavi, the Vaccine Alli...

Invitation to participate in prioritization of HPV vaccine implementation research questions survey. In all regions of the world, HPV vaccination coverage remains stubbornly low in many countries.  Globally, the average first HPV dose coverage was only 59% in 2022. This coverage is far below the 90...

In case you missed it, People that Deliver and VillageReach have published an op-ed on the Devex homepage entitled Why we need to professionalize the health supply chain workforce. It explains that the supply chain management skills gap is one of the reasons why more than half of the African p...

Have you registered for the PtD Global Indaba? Don't miss out! Between 6 and 8 March 2024 People that Deliver (PtD) will host the second edition of the PtD Global Indaba in Bangkok, Thailand, a conference that focuses exclusively on human resources for health supply chain management. On Friday 8 Ma...

Dear Colleagues, National pharmaceutical services units (NPSUs) are central government divisions responsible for medicines regulation, health supply chain, and pharmaceutical services. They impact the government’s ability to serve as stewards of the health system and ensure equitable and easy acces...

Abstract submission for the PtD Global Indaba closes this Friday 1 December. Don't miss the oppportunity to present the work of your organisation!   Early-bird registration also ends this Friday, after which the registration price will rise.   Submit an abstract here: https://ptde...

The WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) and WHO Health Emergency programme (WHE) are partnering with Project ECHO of the University of New Mexico (UNM), UNICEF, and TechNet-21 to host a series of 15 sessions that align with countries’ immediate and medium-...

The WHO European Region celebrates European Immunization Week (EIW) on 20-26 April to raise awareness of the importance of immunization in preventing diseases and protecting life. This message is especially critical this year, when national immunization programmes and health providers are working to...

Sharing herewith the “Guidance on routine immunization services during COVID-19 pandemic in the WHO European Region” developed by WHO EURO VPI team in consultation with WHO EURO COVID19 Team, ETAGE experts and UNICEF Regional Office. The document aims to provide pragmatic guidance for national immu...

Interested in becoming a member of the European Technical Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization? ETAGE will be expanding with a new member specialized in vaccine acceptance and demand. Deadline for applications is 1 June 2019 http://bit.ly/2HIAGgb...

Many thanks to Tasnim Partapuri for sharing this information from the The Communication Initiative website. Every year since 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) has dedicated one week in April to raising awareness about the importance of immunization as a public health strategy in Europe. [201...