This happened in August 2025 !----------------------------------------------------🌍✨ A Double Milestone for Health and Immunization in Zambia!The DRIVE initiative and the Health Facility Solarization and Electrification Project✨🌍We are proud to celebrate two remarkable achievements that mark a new c...

People that Deliver Global IndabaAbstract submission deadline extended to 15 July Submit your abstract here. Are you interested in giving an oral or poster presentation at the PtD Global Indaba? You have two more weeks to get you submissions in! Abstracts should document the work of your organisa...

Join the Boost Community and the Exemplars in Global Health (EGH) program for a live engagement on Tuesday, May 17 at 10:00 AM EDT/ 2:00 PM GMT / 3:00 PM WAT / 7:30 PM IST (check your local time). The Exemplars in Global Health program believes that the quickest path to success is to identify who h...

Dear Colleagues, On 12 and 13 October 2022, People that Deliver (PtD), alongside the International Association of Public Health Logisticians (IAPHL), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Pharmaceutical Systems Africa and SAPICS – and with the support of the Global Fund – will host the ...

When: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 3:30PM - 4:30PM (CET) Location: https://gavi-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wx9c2pSFS7yXCBMKN98cjg Registration Link: https://gavi-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wx9c2pSFS7yXCBMKN98cjg  Panelists:  • Sheldon Halsted, Linksbridge • Robert Steinglass (for...

Description: PATH’s Living Labs Initiative used human-centered design methods to gather feedback on proposed labels for COVID-19 vaccine vials and cartons. Healthcare workers in Kenya and Zambia interacted with the labels and made recommendations for vaccine manufacturers for labels for future ...

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...

Save the Date: 1-2 September 2021, Lusaka, Zambia The PtD Global Indaba Steering Committee members are pleased to announce new dates for the upcoming PtD Global Indaba: A forum on Human Resources for Health Supply Chain Management (HR4SCM). This event, organized by PtD in partnership with IAPHL, In...

Greetings, everyone. I hope that you are healthy and keeping your spirits up amidst these trying times. In March this year, just before COVID-19 shutdowns, I visited health facilities in Kinshasa - where mothers were being asked to wait (one for over 2 hours) and turned away for measles vaccination...

JSI, with Gavi support, is hosting a second webinar series to build the supply chain capacity of EPI program and supply chain managers, this time focusing on building responsive immunization supply chains. To be responsive, supply chains need to evolve and adapt to change, whether for a new vaccine ...

As technology has become cheaper and more accessible, countries are adopting digital health interventions to improve the provision of and demand for health services. These interventions are complex and require strong coordination and support across different health system levels and government depar...

For an annual cost of between US$3.30 to $3.81 per child under the age of one, health workers in Tanzania can benefit from the better data and time savings made possible by an electronic immunization registry (EIR). In Zambia, these benefits cost US$8.46 per child under the age of one. That higher n...

The BID Initiative is excited to announce a new topics page that compiles the resources, tools, publications, and webinars we've developed or contributed to over the years! BID is led by PATH and grounded in the belief that better data, plus better decisions, will lead to better health outcomes...

Recent reports [1] of counterfeit yellow fever vaccination certificates in Zambia follow reports of falsified proof of vaccination documents being used in other countries, including Ethiopia [2], India [3], Nigeria [4], Pakistan [5], Sudan [6], Uganda [7], Tanzania [8] and Zimbabwe [9]. While the Wo...

People that Deliver Launches a New Resource for Health Supply Chain Practitioners: the Human Resources for Supply Chain Management Theory of Change Like all chains, supply chains are no stronger than their weakest link. Although hundreds of millions of dollars in commodities flow through the health...

Strategic reuse of appropriate tools is one of the core principles of the BID Initiative. Over the last five years, we have worked with the governments of Tanzania and Zambia to enhance immunization and overall health service delivery by improving data collection, quality, and use, with in...

As countries increasingly implement and scale electronic immunization registries (EIRs), it will be critical that they exchange lessons and best practices. The BID Initiative, which is led by PATH, in partnership with the governments of Tanzania and Zambia, recently hosted delegates in Tanzania from...

During the GIM conducted in Rwanda in June 2018, a breakout session entitled “Innovations & Transitions for Immunization Data” was moderated by Jan Grevendonk, WHO HQ, and Hope Johnson, The Gavi Alliance.  Participants discussed the transitions that are taking place with immunization data, such as ...

Electronic immunization registries (EIRs) and other immunization information systems can be powerful tools, but in order to achieve their long-term sustainability, countries and governments must understand the financial investment to develop, implement, and sustain such tools as the BID Initiative's...

As part of the WHO African region efforts to improve immunization and surveillance performances in terms of quality, effectiveness, efficiency, coverage and equity and in order to strengthen the capacity of policy makers and health providers in countries, there is a need for accurate data in order t...