Good day, We are looking for free or WHO-supported tools to manage preventive maintenance (PM) for vaccine cold chain equipment. Our goals are: Schedule routine maintenance for refrigerators, cold rooms, and freezers Track asset inventory and maintenance history Align documentation w...

The USAID Medicines Technologies and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program is pleased to announce the availability of the above course through the Philippines Department of Health (DOH) Academy https://learn.doh.gov.ph/ (You need to register and then enrol in the ‘Gender and Development’ course). ...

Dear all, sharing on behalf of WHO Philippines country office and Philippines Department of Health. The WHO Philippines country office is supporting the Philippines Department of Health to deploy a solution for cold chain temperature monitoring. This RFP is open to all prequalified E006 suppliers w...

Hello everyone! Im Charisse Tan from Philippines. I would like to know if there are official publication or established SUSAR for any of the covid-19 vaccine? What is the difference between SUSAR and serious AEFI? Thank you :)...

Webinar organized by Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) in which we shall analyze the current situation of Digital Health in Central America through the accumulated experience of Central American Health Informatics Network (RECAINSA) Speakers: - Joseline Carías Galeano, Coordinator of Communi...

Dear Technet members, I would like to share my thoughts on the temperature monitoring devices and thermostal for vaccine refrigeration system. In the early days of EPI, temperature of the refrigerator was measured and displayed by a simple analogue thermometer which was either a bi-metal or stem t...

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...

This summary has been extracted from the IVAC website. For best viewing, please click here. For the first time in its history, the International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Disease (ISPPD), was held in Asia in March 2014. Nearly 1,000 scientists and public health experts from aroun...

While immunization partners involved in supporting vaccine supply chain (WHO, UNICEF’s CCL and Project Optimize ...) are collaborating and building on each others’ experiences, there are several pertinent questions to the field yet to be addressed: 1. Questions related to standby generators: Alt...

Background: In 2010 the 63rd World Health Assembly called for a comprehensive response to viral hepatitis. As mandated by the WHA, from 2011 onwards, World Hepatitis Day is promoted on 28 July in order to provide an opportunity for awareness raising and greater understanding of viral hepatitis as...

Many thanks to Mojtaba Haghgou for sharing this with our readers. The TechNet21 website will soon have a software depot from which you will be able to download VSSM and other latest software. Vaccination Supply Stock Management (VSSM) version 4.7, is a computer application, now used in the centra...

Many thanks to Ashley Iwanaga for sending in the latest UNDP GEF Healthcare Waste Management Project report. Dear Colleagues, The UNDP GEF Project on Healthcare Waste Management is excited to share its first Project Update report (in English, French, and Spanish). The goal of the project is ...

POST 01391E: VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO VIRUS 18 FEBRUARY 2009 ****************************************** In the context of the discussions on polio eradication on our forum (see POSTS: 01354E), these reports hold great interest. Cross-posting yet again from CSU, with a big thank you to Bob D...

POST 01182E : RETRACTABLE SYRINGE Follow-up on Posts 01166E and 01171E 5 November 2007 ____________________________________ In response to Vijay Kiran’ contribution, Prabir Chatterjee from India provides the following information. On the same site a would-be interesting link "Disp...

POST 01141E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS Follow-up on Posts 01125E and 01133E 15 August 2007 _________________________________________________________________ This posting contains three contributions. The first is from John Lloyd from PATH. Then Dereje Ayalew explains his question furth...

POST 01095E : SOLAR REFRIGERATOR Follow-up on Posts 01019E, 01027E, 01032E, 01037E and 01045E 20 May 2007 _______________________________________ NOTE : A typographic error in the previous link made it inaccessible (Ah! American English...). Here is the correct link. -----------------...

POST 01090E : NEW REFRIGERATOR EVALUATION Follow-up on Post 01080E 9 May 2007 ____________________________________ Alejo Bejemino (mailto:[email protected]) from the Philippines, formerly with UNICEF/Pakistan, sends these comments on the new vaccine refrigerator. ________...

POST 01082E : REFRIGERATOR/FREEZERS PURCHASE AND OPERATING COSTS Follow-up on Posts 01063E (http://listes.ulaval.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=i ... .org&P=351) and 01073E (http://listes.ulaval.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=i ... d.org&P=63) 21 April 2007 ____________________________________ The co...

POST 00699E : VACCINATION WITH NO SYRINGE BURNED 21 July 2004 _______________________________ Jorge Emmanuel (mailto:[email protected]) is circulating this press release concerning syringe disposal without incineration during a measles follow-up campaign. He is one of the authors of...

POST 00642E : IMPROVING COVERAGE 25 February 2004 ___________________________________ Posting by the moderator : Those of you who have looked at the TechNet meeting agenda in details will have noticed a session on "Improving Coverage" Tuesday, 23 March. This is quite important as ...