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...

The team Sampaje started Simulation study on Mission Indradhnush Twenty Twenty. The first session day completed on 01 April 2015 but without getting 'fooled'. Tracking of 6 chldren over, one master Mungli the forest boy left for home in Assam. 9 more sessions to to go by 16th April thogugh final sc...

Can any one help me that is there any VVM checking policy/guideline available with WHO in between receiving and dispatching of vaccines....

Immunization coverage increased by 1% per year – from 61% in 2009 to 65% in 2014. Mission Inndradhanush aims at increasing the coverage by 5% per year to cross 90% by the year 2020. In the year 2012-13, when Intensification of Routine Immunization (IRI) was declared, a simulation study was conducte...

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...