Well-planned, adequately funded communications affect the success of immunization services and are particularly needed to achieve vaccination coverage goals and maintain trust in vaccines. A communications plan and its activities – such as media briefings, stakeholder engagement, and social mobil...

Till recently vaccinating with 6 basic vaccines is considered as minimal / essential global requirement.With rapid expansion of the programme in the recent yrs, newborn vaccination has already gained status and got featured in the National immunization Schedule/IAP schedule. But something extra (???...

Dear Colleagues : Please find attached an information bulletin which announces the recent WHO pre-qualification of DTwP-HepB-Hib vaccine available in a compact, pre-filled auto-disable injection technology (cPAD). An example of a compact pre-filled auto-disable injection technology is the Uniject™...

A home-based vaccination record is a document (more often physical rather than electronic) --- issued by an official authority (may be sub-national or national) to an individual person and maintained in the household by an individual or individual’s caregiver (e.g., mother, father, grandparent, etc)...

Current ownership of home-based records for recording vaccinations is far too low in many countries. One possible means towards motivating caregivers to retain home-based records through the first year of a child’s life and beyond is to link documentation of a child’s vaccination history to school e...

Dear Colleagues, Thank you for your continued interest in the People that Deliver (PtD) Initiative. We would like share PtD's Newsflash no. 14 with our colleagues. In this issue of the PtD Newsflash, read more about the: - The 4 Cs for SCM Professionals - PtD as a key partner in the Gavi Pe...

Sun Frost developed a hybrid refrigerator/ice pack freezer, the FRH-3. The Sun Frost FRH-3 has a SDD freezer and a battery powered refrigerator. The SDD freezer is the same size as our F-1 (http://www.sunfrost.com/batteryless_direct_drive_freezer.html) and incorporates the same technology which allo...

Among of the major problems for immunization services especially, the low resources countries remains to be inadequate availability of essential information for appropriate immunization decision making (based on the unavailability of essential information in a systematic, timely and in a defined per...

Many country vaccine distribution systems in low to middle income countries feature scheduled deliveries from central to intermediate level stores. But they depend on collection or a mix of collection and delivery at service delivery level of the system. The mode of travel varies as transport becom...

Karnataka completed more than 2 scores of pulse polio rounds (43) since 1995. Learning by doing and working together is a continuous process. Planning unit is a template and hence the lessons learnt from one model unit can benefit 2300+ & 23500+ units of Karnataka & the country respectively...

Dear Reader, Thank you for your time. I am excited to be here and learn from the experts. For a class project in data mining, I tested some algorithms to predict BCG immunization rates using social indicators in World Bank survey data. The report is attached. Please have a look and share your...

In its January 2015 meeting, the WHO Executive Board called on all Member States to accelerate preparation for a globally coordinated switch from trivalent to bivalent OPV in April 2016. The Board’s request follows the WHO SAGE announcement in October 2014 that preparations are on track for this imp...

by Dan Brigden, WHO Over the last five years, project Optimize has worked closely with national immunization programs to explore innovative solutions to supply chain challenges. Each project has attempted to solve a particular immunization challenge—from an electronic immunization registry in Alb...

The January 2015 edition of the IVAC VIMS Report on Global Vaccine Introduction is now available at http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/ivac/vims/IVAC-VIMS-Report-2015-Jan.pdf New in the January edition is the addition of an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) section in the report....

The decision of a National Immunization Programme to use Solar Direct Driven (SDD) Refrigerators instead of Solar Panels to run refrigerators I think is like presenting challenges in the so called expected “better and sustainable solution” especially for the low resources countries. It is true that...

About 2 decades back, a Director addressed the trainees and told – “in India we have many all India Problems but no all India solution for any single problem”. In surgical field – “intention of healing is always good often with unwanted scars, keloid and strictures”. In public health – as expresse...

This posting is one of four, each discussing a different indicator. This post discusses vaccine utilisation efficiency. Another efficiency indicator measures the level of vaccine administered expressed as a percentage of the vaccine consumed (Doses ‘Consumed’ = ‘Doses ‘administered’ to clients + ‘D...

Systematic Routine Remote Temperature monitoring: are we ready? Minutes and documents from the Remote Temperature Monitoring workshop, Zanzibar, 4 – 6 November 2014 Remote Temperature Monitoring Technology is recommended to be used at Central Store locations and has been deployed there for the l...

Home-base records constitute an inexpensive yet effective instrument for systematically documenting the immunization services received by an individual. A revitalized discussion of home-based records is taking place against the backdrop of a dynamic environment with new vaccine introductions that is...

This posting is one of four, each discussing a different indicator. This post discusses the availability of vaccine. Over 40% of countries reporting to the JRF in 2013 reported shortages of one or more vaccines for at least one month at central level. Disruption of supplies of this scale at central...