World Health Organization provides technical support in the form of "Position paper" on all vaccines for guiding the member countries to formulate their own country specific "National Immunization schedule (NIS)" by the central level technical committee on the basis of epidemiolo...

Two solar direct drive ice pack freezers have been successfully tested for seven months in Columbia. The F-1 was manufactured by Sun Frost and a second freezer was produced by Sun Danzer. The freezers were tested by Steve McCarney of SELF and the project was supported by BMGF grant. The tests result...

With the possible exception of disposal, transport is the most neglected aspect of the vaccine supply chain in spite of its reputation for accidental freezing of vaccines, unreliable availability and high operational costs. So, I hope you will join us in discussing work in progress: At the vacc...

Pakistan Vaccine Logistics Management Information System (vLMIS) Release 2 went Live this week: vLMIS release 2 is a single web based integrated platform for reporting Routine Immunization, VSSM, CCEM2 and SDMS software. The portal has below modules with respective dashboards, reports, graphs, an...

Cross-posted from the SIGN newsletter with thanks! The Yves Chartier Award 2014 rewards an NGO, or an actor from civil society, from an African country, who will have elaborated a campaign or achieved an innovative project in the struggle against antimicrobial resistance and climate change, relat...

Dear experts, I have two questions for you. 1/ On most of blistered and non blistered medicine monograph, there is written that medicines should be kept in a cool and dry place. WHO guidance on temperature is well explained. Fine. It is very hard to find anything around humidity. Except that ...

Tool vs. approach: ANMs receive multiple forms/formats/records/registers. Often they have to enter same data multiple times increasing their fatigue and compromising the quality of data and service. Time and again Govt had requested the consultants and development partners to simplify recording and...

PATH is conducting this survey to learn how vaccine carriers are currently used in the vaccine supply chain and whether they are meeting the needs of the health system. We are interested in global trends as well as examples from individual countries. We welcome any comments or feedback. The survey w...

WHO and UNICEF have jointly prepared an information bulletin which addresses varied implications of different types of vaccine vial monitors (VVMs), notably VVM category type 7 (VVM7) and VVM category type 14 (VVM14), on vaccines such as the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) and the fully-liquid Dipht...

We are pleased to inform you that the latest IPAC Meeting Report is now available online through the following link:   http://www.who.int/immunization/programmes_systems/policies_strategies/ipac/en/ The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC) has been supporting and advising the Di...

Dear Colleagues, The new People that Deliver Newsflash No.12 is now available! In this issue: - Update on the 2nd PtD Global Conference - Public Health Supply Chain Competency Mapping in Namibia - The 7 habits of effective supply chain professionals - Results of the PtD Board elect...

As many of you know, the supply chain strategy developed by WHO, UNICEF, Gates Foundation and GAVI was approved by the GAVI Board in June of this year, and we are beginning to work on implementation planning and communication. At this point, I know the community has more questions than we yet have a...

MCHIP is USAID's flagship program accelerating progress towards achieving MDGs 4 & 5. Since 2008, MCHIP has worked in more than 50 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to improve the health of women and their families. MCHIP has supported programming across the spect...

A new policy paper on the vaccine supply chain, "System Design: Repair or Replace," has recently been released. It's attached and can also be found here: http://villagereach.org/vrsite/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/villagereach-system-design_repair-or-replace.pdf. This paper considers the broader conce...

In case the TechNet community is interested. Global vaccine supply. The increasing role of manufacturers from middle income countries [color=#00bb44]DP Francis, YP Du, AR Precioso - Vaccine, 2014[/color] A design methodology for the economic design of vaccine warehouses in the developing worl...

Dear TechNet Community   Since the endorsement of the decade-long Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) by the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2012, the WHO Secretariat is mandated to produce and disseminate each year an annual report that analyses progress towards achieving the various GVAP goals and ...

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin The goal of the IAPHL e-mentoring program is to provide its members with opportunities to develop a partnership through which the mentor shares knowledge, skills, information and perspective to nurture ...

"Cleanliness is godliness". In implementing routine immunization programme, achieving timeliness/timely completeness is Godliness. By vaccinating close to the schedule through regular outreach sessions at monthly intervals, tracking vaccination status through simple paper documentation ce...

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to update you on the details regarding the 2nd People that Deliver Global Conference on “Human Resources in Supply Chain Management” to be held at UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark on 27-30 October 2014. Under the theme of 'People Must Deliver: Workforce excellenc...

The Measles & Rubella Initiative is a global partnership committed to ensuring no child dies from measles or is born with congenital rubella syndrome. This updated fact sheet provides at a glance information about the importance of eliminating measles and rubella globally. The illustrations by artis...