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What is MAINSTREAM?
The MAINSTREAM initiative worked with local mentor institutes in Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Pakistan to support 25 small embedded implementation research (IR) projects to strengtheng immunization coverage and equity, especially for zero dose children. Th...
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Dear TechNet Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to the third and final webinar in our Strategic Vaccine Procurement Series—an opportunity to explore a critical, often complex dimension of vaccine procurement: the role of legal and re...
Come learn how implementation research is helping immunization programmes reach zero dose children!
Under the MAINSTREAM project, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department at WHO in collaboration with local mentor institutes have...
Dear Colleagues,
we are pleased to invite you to an engaging webinar focusing on:Adult Immunization, Featuring best practices from Argentina and Ghana and learnings from COVID-19 vaccination interventions to increase demand and uptake for other vaccines.
Webinar Details:
Date: 11 December ...
Dear all, I was recently made aware that WHO produced a documentary film on the achievement of Ghana in establishing "the first developing country vaccine cold chain, a model then reproduced by all countries in the World" (as described by Michel Zaffran in his recent forum post on John Lloyd). The f...
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...
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...
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 ...
The October edition of the People that Deliver Newsflash is now available: http://conta.cc/2xxizFp
In this issue:
PtD elects a new Chairperson
Building a strong supply chain workforce in Ghana
The transition of the public health supply chain for medical commodities in Kenya
N...
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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...
Abstract from an article written by our EPI Ghana team. Comments are welcome!
For the full article please go to: http://www.sciforschenonline.org/journals/vaccines/article-data/IJVI-1-104/IJVI-1-104.pdf
Background: WHO and UNICEF supported Ghana to conduct Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) assess...
Dear Colleagues,
Paper immunization registers and register books are critical components of health information systems (HIS) for immunization programs across the globe. Even as many HIS for immunization programs and other health domains move toward electronic and mobile data collection systems, p...
The Quarter 4, 2012 issue of the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) Newsletter focuses on a number of promising mobile supply chain interventions, which are quickly becoming a preferred approach to data collection, tracking, and reporting. Mobile systems such as ILSGateway in Ta...
by Raja Rao and Joseph Torres, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
In November last year, 17 different proposals on how to optimize immunization systems were each
awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in round nine of its Grand Challenges
Explorations initiative. Below, Raja R...
An interview with Claire Dillavou, University of California, Los Angeles
Earlier this year, Claire Dillavou of the University of California, Los Angeles was awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative*. Claire hopes to develop a...
by Alan Hinman, Task Force for Global Health; Majeed Siddiqi, HealthNet TPO Afghanistan; and Amy Dietterich, IFRC
While Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have long played critical roles in supporting immunization services at national and global levels, their role in the GAVI Alliance expanded j...
The potential of immunization to improve public health continues to grow as new vaccines against major diseases are developed. The recent infusions of support for global immunization, both through the recent replenishment of GAVI Alliance funding and the Decade of Vaccines, will increase the worldw...
Many thanks!
A dozen updates this week as the new vaccine pledging meeting approaches. Will the funds pledged next month cover the needs for introduction of rotavirus, pneumococcal and HPV vaccines? ‘The doubt is permitted,’ as they say in French.
Here are the titles of the new technical upda...
POST 01227E: COLD CHAIN MANAGEMENT : SUB-NATIONAL CAPACITY
16 FEBRUARY 2008
Follow-up on posts: 01226E, 01225E , 01221E, 01218, 01216, 01214E
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BUILDING AND MAINTAINING SUB-NATIONAL CAPACITY
As a part of the Reaching Ev...
POST 01227E: COLD CHAIN MANAGEMENT : SUB-NATIONAL CAPACITY
16 FEBRUARY 2008
Follow-up on posts: 01226E, 01225E , 01221E, 01218, 01216, 01214E
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BUILDING AND MAINTAINING SUB-NATIONAL CAPACITY
As a part of the Reaching Ev...
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