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  On behalf of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and the Alliance for Advancing Health Online, we invite you to join us to explore Social Media Listening for Improved Vaccine Acceptance.During this live engagement, you will hear from a panel of g...

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Most ice-lined refrigerators in India are fully functional at 5 - 45 degrees Celsius (ie, they are able to maintain an internal temperature of 2-8 degrees Celsius when the external temperatures are between 5 and 45 degrees Celsius). Some states of India have an extremely cold climate during winters ...

Dear TechNet21 colleagues, Vietnam’s National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (NEPI) has since 2010 worked with the Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation to strengthen the nation-wide cold chain equipment maintenance system, using an outsourced services model. Simultaneously, a nationw...

by Drew Meek, WHO/QSS; Sheila Cattell, IFPMA; and Joanie Robertson, PATH In the packaged food and consumer products industries, barcodes have become a way of life. Most large supermarkets around the world use barcode scanners at the checkout counter, and an average smartphone can now scan barcodes...

by Simona Zipursky, PATH; Christoph Conrad, WHO/Quality, Safety & Standards; Tony Richardson, CDC/Vaccine Supply & Assurance Branch They call it the Decade of Vaccines for a reason. More new vaccines will become available between 2010 and 2020 than all previous decades combined. Not onl...

Cross posted from IAC Express (Issue: 873) with many thanks. GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INVITES HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS TO TRY ITS PILOT PROGRAM ABOUT VACCINE SAFETY WHO's Global Training Network provides training for national programmes and regulatory authorities on the principles of vaccine safe...

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 01345E: DURING GLOBAL RECESSION USE SCARCE RESOURCES RESPONSIBLY (POLIO ERADICATION) FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E & 01344E 3 NOVEMBER 2008 ****************************************** FOCUS NEEDS TO SHIFT TO OVERALL WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN Before the eradicat...

POST 01237E: Human Papillomavirus update 8 MARCH 2008 ******************************************* Cervical cancer has a devastating impact on women’s health around the world. Approximately, 500.000 women develop cervical cancer every year, and half of them do not survive it. Almost 80% of thes...

POST 01212E : TT SCHOOL VACCINATION 3 January 2008 ___________________________ It is with some trepidation and considerable eagerness that one takes over the reins from Claude Letarte, who has brought to his moderation a great degree of balance, dynamism and domain expertise. We take the ba...

POST 01210E : ROTAVIRUS VACCINE EFFICACY 29 December 2007 ____________________________________ Here is an article published in the Lancet late November. It assesses the efficacy of the oral live attenuated human rotavirus vaccine Rotarix (RIX4414) for prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis. Y...

POST 01207E : MEASLES 23 December 2007 __________________________________ As of this month, 4 of WHO's 6 regions had committed themselves to regional measles elimination. This month, the AFRO Task Force on Immunization, covering the 46 WHO member states of subsaharan Africa, passed the followi...

POST 01206E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Posts 01114E, 01127E, 01138E, 01164E, 01178E, 01186E, 01191E, and 01195E 22 December 2007 _____________________________________ [log in to unmask]">Ranjit Dhiman from WHO/WPRO replies to James Cheyne on vaccine needs calculation...

POST 01204E : WHO POSITION PAPER / RABIES 19 December 2007 ___________________________________ Please note that a revised WHO position paper on rabies vaccines was published in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record of 7 December. The paper is available in English and French. It will shortly...

POST 01203E : VACCINE FREEZING Follow-up on Post 01197E 18 December 2007 ____________________________________ This posting contains two contributions. The first is from [log in to unmask]">Alejo Bejemino, followed by a very short comment by [log in to unmask]">Rosamund Le...

POST 01201E : ERADICATION EFFORTS Follow-up on Posts 01174E and 01179E 14 December 2007 ____________________________ TIP : If you consult TechNet archives on Listserv, most of you will not see the active links in the body of the text, depending on configuration. Please go to the very bot...

POST 01198E : MNT ELIMINATION 9 December 2007 _____________________________ The following 13-page article is an interesting and comprehensive review of the issue posted online by the Lancet in September. "Maternal and neonatal tetanus" by Martha H Roper, Jos H Vandelaer and Franç...