UNICEF is pleased to invite you to save the date for the upcoming BCU Case Studies Webinar, where selected countries will share experiences and lessons learned from the implementation of the Big Catch-Up (BCU).   Big Catch-Up Case Studies Webinar: Lessons from Country Implementati...

Learning agenda on hepatitis B birth dose vaccine delivery in Africa Insights and recommendations to improve timely administration Wednesday 4 March at 16:00–17:30 EAT | 14:00–15:30 CET | 8:00–9:30 EST Chronic hepatitis B affects 254 million people globally, with the highest burden in low‑ and m...

Hello Everyone, I wanted to share a new op-ed, co-authored by Last Mile Health and VillageReach, that highlights how community health workers (CHWs) are driving meaningful improvements in vaccine access across Africa — especially for zero-dose and under-immunized children. The piece, published on ...

The Immunization Economics Community of Practice are holding a webinar on 10 December 2025 at 15:00 Central European Time on the cost of reaching zero-dose children, click here to register now! Presenters will share a global synthesis of the evidence on the cost of reaching zero-dose children, as w...

Dear TechNet community, The World Bank and the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) will co-host a webinar discussion on November 14, 2024 on looking at strategies to improve HPV vaccination uptake among adolescent girls. In case this is of interest, I thought I’d share...

Dear TechNet community, Women in Global Health will host a webinar discussion on the integration of gender considerations in pharmaceutical supply chain management. Gender-Responsive Health Supply Chain Systems: Are we there yet? October 29, 12 :00 PM UTC, 3:00 PM CET The featured webinar paneli...

  These advancements in technology in vaccine and cold chain have caught the attention of various stakeholders in the private and public sector, including the Ministry of Health in different countries and both local and global partners involved in immunization. As a result, they have invested ...

By -Tesfaye Tsigu UNICEF has procured, delivered and installed greater than 100k optimal cold chain equipments in low and middle-income countries over the past few years. UNICEF collaborates with GAVI, WHO, Governments and other partners to strengthen the health system of those countries.  Pu...

Hi, My name is Tewedaj, Ethiopia, I am a Certified Public Health Professional with over 10 years of progressive experience in the District health system; I coordinated and led the public health emergency response teams at Jimma University as a surveillance division leader during the Pandemic. Curr...

Please come and join a team working in Ethiopia to present their work entitled “Early Lessons From Ethiopia in Establishing a Data Triangulation Process to Analyze Immunization Program and Supply Data for Decision Making”. Date: July 19, 2022, 3:00PM CEST Interpretation available in FR. Key Findi...

The Boost Community, in partnership with John Snow, Inc. (JSI), is pleased to announce a three-part discussion series beginning Wednesday, May 12 on the lessons learned from ten years of implementation of the Reaching Every District using Quality Improvement Tools (RED-QI) approach in Ethiopia and...

Deadline extended  Do you work on health or immunization? Are you passionate about new and innovative approaches to improving vaccination coverage? If ‘yes’, then we’d like to hear from YOU! The World Health Organisation (WHO) has developed a set of tools to support immunization programmes ...

The World Health Organization, Unicef and U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and have developed "Triangulation Guidance for improved Decision-Making in Immunization Programmes". This guidance provides a systematic approach to using triangulation for programme improvement at ...

Ethiopia is introducing a new tool to triangulate data between program and supply chain. Similar to map reading where compass bearings from three known points can estimate a position, data triangulation uses multiple data sources to get better reliability/accuracy.  You can ready more abo...

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...

You will find in the TechNet-21 Resource Library the recently released WHO report "Explorations of Inequality: Childhood Immunization"  and its accompanying interactive data visuals: https://www.technet-21.org/en/library/main/4912-explorations-of-inequality-childhood-immunization The report descri...

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...

Greetings, colleagues. With increasing importance on user-focused improvements in routine, administrative immunization data quality and use, it is useful to have some experience-sharing from country learning and implementation. Linked below are a few recent blog posts and an article on in-country r...

by Dr Blanche ANYA and Dr David BROWN During 21-24 February 2017, representatives from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda gathered in Kampala, Uganda to rethink and improve their country’s current home-based record design and functionality as well as the broader system that sup...

WHO and UNICEF have just published a new evidence brief on solar direct-drive (SDD) vaccine refrigerators and freezers. It includes case studies from Tanzania, Colombia and Kenya, as well as an overview of SDD technology and how to make sure that SDD technology is the right choice. Here's the link: ...