Dear All, So pleased to share the great news that yesterday, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines and other health products in an effort to expand access. The draft resolution is on the WHA website: http://apps.who.int/gb/e/...

This document is designed to support EPI managers and their teams in the implementation of EIR-related information systems, using the various experiences compiled at the global level – and, especially, in the Region of the Americas – as a foundation. Within this context, the main objectives of this...

Is there anyone here who works in immunization program in Brazil and Mali? I need to ask some questions regarding immunization schedule and their respective immunization program. I tried reviewing available literature and publications online but there are some data that seem inconsistent.  Ple...

Member States Delegates discuss progress towards global immunization goals at the World Health Assembly, May 2014 Fifty-four speakers including 50 representatives from Member States[1], one Observer[2], Civil Society Organizations[3] and the GAVI Alliance took the floor during the discussion on t...

Cross-posted from the January 2012 issue of GIN with thanks. 31/01/2012 from Madhav Balakrishnan, WHO HQ The Global Network for Post-marketing Surveillance (PMS) of Vaccines was established by WHO in early 2008 with a primary objective to monitor the safety of WHO prequalified vaccines supplied thr...

by Darin Zehrung, Jean-Marie Préaud, and Emily Griswold, PATH In an effort to advance the development of promising new rotavirus vaccine candidates, PATH is assisting manufacturers in Brazil, China, and India in the formulation, manufacturing, and clinical development of the vaccine candidates. T...

Dear Friends, Recently there have been a number of articles critical of the recommendations for pneumococcal and the pentavalent vaccines in high impact journals. I understand some of this has spilled over to the lay press and it will be good if we can have clarity on these issu...

POST 00965E : COLD CHAIN CAPACITY ASSESSMENT/REQUEST FOR INFO 23 August 2006 ______________________________________________________________ NOTE : I have inadvertently deleted a message from a member, going too fast in deleting the load of spams... so please, whoever wrote to TechNet on S...

POST 00630E : END OF POLIO 11 January 2004 __________________________ Already a few months ago, UNICEF Press Center had announced that the famous Brazilian journalist and Special Representative Sebastião Salgado was publishing his latest book "The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a ...

POST 00426E : Needle-free injector for mass immunization campaigns 16 February 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow-up discussion on TechNet21 Postings 00405E, 00408E, 00411E, 00147E and 00420E The recent dialogue on how and where to license a new...

POST 00420E : NEEDLE-FREE INJECTOR FOR MASS IMMUNIZATION CAMPAIGN Follow-up on Posts 00405E, 00408E, 00411E and 00417E A Call to the International Public Health Community by the Needle Free Team at PATH 31 January 2002 ______________________________________________________________________...

POST 00411E : NEEDLE-FREE INJECTOR FOR MASS IMMUNIZATION CAMPAIGN Follow-up on Posts 00405E and 00408E 16 January 2002 _________________________________________________________________ Bruce G. Weniger (mailto:[email protected] ) of the National Immunization Program at the Centers for Disease...

Post00375 VAX INTRO + QUALITY DRAFT + SOLAR + NEWS 18 September 2001 CONTENTS 1. RE: A "THINK PIECE" ON INTRODUCTION OF COMBO VACCINES 2. ENSURING QUALITY OF VACCINES AT COUNTRY LEVEL: DRAFT FOR COMMENT 3. SOLAR POWER IS REACHING WHERE WIRES CAN'T 4. MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE IN A...

Post00351 MEASLES PLUS 18 June 2001 CONTENTS 1.FIELD EXPERIENCE GUIDES PAHO'S VACCINE DIRECTOR: LESSONS FROM THE FIELD Tip of the hat to Bob Davis, UNICEF for this Lancet Interview With Dr Ciro De Quadros. "De Quadros thinks now is the time to start moving towards global measles...

Post00338 EPI WASTE 1 May 2001 CONTENTS 1. DISPOSAL OF UNUSED VACCINE VIALS 2. GAVI DONATIONS - INJECTION WASTE DISPOSAL Continued 3. HEALTH-CARE WASTE MANAGEMENT DRAFT RAPID ASSESSMENT TOOL 4. FROM GAVI IMMUNIZATION FOCUS: FIRST, DO NO HARM 1. DISPOSAL OF UNUSED VACCINE VIALS T...

Post00301 VACCINE FREEZING: REFERENCES 28 November 2000 CONTENTS 1. VACCINE FREEZING: REFERENCES This list of reference documents on vaccine freezing was kindly posted by Debbie Kristensen, PATH. The problem of vaccine freezing has been around since the earliest days of the Expanded P...

Post0221 LOGISTICS, SURVEILLANCE & DISEASE CONTROL 25 January 2000 CONTENTS 1. LOGISTICS MODULE FOR SURVEILLANCE 2. DRAFT MANUAL ON SURVEILLANCE LOGISTICS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD 3. POLIO ERADICATION NEWS 4. VACCINE PREVENTABLE DISEASE NEWS 1. LOGISTICS MODULE FOR SURVEILLANCE This posting contin...