During the TechNet consultation in Bangkok ten innovation projects that were given special prominence.All the projects are truly impressive in their scope, attention to detail and focused on collecting better data for supply chain management. Two are for system-wide supply chain modelling to help...

A week before (on 28-05-2015) when a couple came with an immunization card developed in a tertiary care centre which created confusion as to what all vaccines thier child should receive made Sampaje team to evolve a user frindly immunization card. This card is evolved considering National Immunizati...

National Technical Advisory group for immunization consisting GOI and development partners, on the basis of epidemiological data, prepare National Immunization Schedule, revise and update time to time either for the whole country or to state / specific districts- say whether to include JE or not, on...

Dear All, Please find attached the article recently published on cost projections of DoV. The costing analysis examines the vaccine costs, supply chain costs, and service delivery costs of immunization programs for routine immunization and for supplemental immunization activities (SIAs) for vaccin...

How about a Buffered Temperature Chain (BTC)? Vaccines which are highly thermally stable can be distributed in the Controlled Temperature Chain (CTC). To be incorporated into the CTC the vaccines must be stable enough to be stored for 3 days at 40 deg C. There are very few vaccines which are this...

Though training workshops are held on cold chain, temperature excursion was not adequately addressed. The guidelines on open vial policy permit 3 trips to outreach from ILR point. The protocol of supervising/ documenting temperature excursion from the manufacturer to regional level may be well matur...

If the answer is “Yes”, you are in luck. Most of the plenary sessions were streamed live and are now available to watch online. For a full list of video recordings, as well as accompanying slides and posters, please refer to this page: www.technet-21.org/home/about/tc2015 The resources on this pag...

Please find below links to recordings of plenary presentations that took place on Wednesday, May 13 2015 at theTechNet Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. These are available for viewing on the USTREAM website. Many thanks and I hope that you find these presentations interesting and useful. Please acce...

Please find below links to recordings of plenary presentations that took place on Tuesday, May 12 2015 at theTechNet Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. These are available for viewing on the USTREAM website. Many thanks and I hope that you find these presentations interesting and useful. Please accept...

Dear Colleagues, Kindly note that the position for Executive Manager (People that Deliver), P-4, TA position # 91378 in Supply Chain Strengthening Centre (I-VN-2015-001050 / E-VN-2015-001052)has been announced through UNICEF's on-line e-Recruitment system. Applications should be submitted before c...

Vaccine vial size – the total number of doses a single vaccine vial contains – can have a significant impact on vaccine distribution, costs, and use, according to a paper recently published in the journalVaccine. In the study titled “One Size Does Not Fit All: The Impact of Primary Vaccine Containe...

PATH wants to better understand how immunization program managers, procurement officers, and other immunization experts view the tradeoffs between liquid and lyophilized presentations ofrotavirus vaccine for use in different settings. To gather feedback from those most knowledgeable about this topic...

Dear Tech Net Colleagues, The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework promotes the development of systems and information specific to responding to public health influenza emergencies. Based on lessons learned from the WHO H1N1 response and other gap analyses, a series of objectives have be...

Dear colleagues, PATH is evaluating a new generation of needle-free jet injectors, known as disposable-syringe jet injectors (DSJIs),for vaccine deliveryin low and middle-income countries. We are writing to request your participation in a 15-minute survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/629RM3C as w...

Team Sampaje wish to share the study observations with the viewers for additional inputs for further improvisation in the coming month. Main observations are: 1. by updating the data the due list got shortened by 23% being first round, in the coming month the list will be more specific. 2. 26% ben...

Dear TechNet members, I am pleased to share the newly published "Supply Chain Competency Framework for Managers & Leaders". The Competency Framework is an activity of the People that Deliver Initiative through the Gavi People & Practice Priority Working Group, with the assistance of UPS. It is en...

Background: Complete and timely childhood immunization is one of the most cost-effective interventions in improving child survival in developing countries. Computerized HMIS has been recently introduced to collect aggregated data on service beneficiaries in Himachal Pradesh. HMIS provides coverage e...

This presentation provides an analysis of the results from more than 70 EVM assessments conducted between 2009 and 2013. This is the first publicly available analysis of both the EVM Criterion scores and the raw questionnaire responses. The analysis will be updated annually; the next update is expec...

A new infographic that explains "What is a controlled temperature chain (CTC)?" is available on the WHO website: http://www.who.int/immunization/programmes_systems/supply_chain/resources/WHO_CTC_Infographic.pdf...

Learning by doing and working together with mutual professional respect and reciprocation takes the team rapidly towrds the goal. Quote from National Health Policy 2015 Draft placed in public domain for CSF (comments/suggestion/feedback): "India today possesses as never before, a sophisticated ars...