Here is a summary of interventions made by country delegations during the GVAP discussion at the WHO Executive Board on 21 January. - A number of delegations mentioned the importance of including measles elimination as part of the GVAP (there was some discussion as to whether it should be eradi...

by Dmitri Davydov, UNICEF Supply Division and John Lloyd, PATH In partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Danish Technical University has begun a pro bono study on vaccine export packaging designs that would extend the safe, useful life of export packaging to allow for d...

UPDATE ON MATERNAL NEONATAL TETANUS ELIMINATION AS OF OCTOBER 2010 WHO/CHERG estimates for causes of child mortality show that Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) was responsible for 59,000 neonatal deaths in 2008.Though the figure shows a 92% reduction in mortality from the 800,000 deaths estima...