From People that Deliver Recognizing the importance of supply chains, the GAVI Alliance partners, GAVI Secretariat, WHO, UNICEF, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are currently designing a supply chain strategy to increase investment in supply chains, coordinate global activities on the iss...

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...

Since 1998, WHO and UNICEF collect annually data on national immunization systems jointly through the WHO/UNICEF Joint Reporting Form on Immunization (JRF) (http://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/routine/reporting/en/). The Joint Reporting Form annually collects national level da...

According to WHO’s Health for the world’s adolescents report released today, adolescent deaths and disability from measles have fallen markedly—by 90% in the African Region between 2000 and 2012, thanks to childhood vaccination with measles vaccine. However, common infectious diseases that have been...

When the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) was established 40 years ago, only around 5% of the world’s children were protected from six diseases — polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, pertussis, measles and tetanus — targeted by four vaccines. Today, that figure is 83%, with some developing ...

cStock is a simple mHealth system that helps to ensure community health workers in Malawi have lifesaving products to treat children under five. cStock was originally piloted in 6 districts and 3 of these districts also implemented supporting teams. The greatest benefits were shown in districts wit...

2013 saw the emerging of the People that Deliver(PtD) Initiative, with funding for a modest secretariat, housed at the UNICEF Supply Division, secured through UNFPA, UNICEF SD and USAID on the 31st December 2014. An Executive Manager began in Jun 2013, a strategic plan was finalised, an aspirational...

This note has been cross-posted from the GAVI CSO forum with many thanks! Dear colleagues, This week on occasion of the World Immunization Week, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has released a call for greater attention to the need for heat-stable vaccines to facilitate acc...

A recently concluded two-week discussion on the IAPHL Forum addressed the challenges or solutions for managing vehicles for distribution of health commodities in rural areas. In week one, moderator Matthew Hann from Riders for Health summarized the discussion: "almost everyone mentioned that...

The study area is a Health Sub-Centre in a Primary Health Centre of a coastal district of Karnataka state. This district has already achieved the Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5 of 2015 and the targets set for 2017 under RMNCH+A. But it is lagging behind in HepB birth dose. In this district, >65%...

The Immunization Summary is an app for visualizing data (tables, graphs, maps) on policies, activities and impact of national immunization systems. These data are reported by WHO & UNICEF Member States annually for incidence, coverage, immunization system indicators and vaccination schedules. ...

Cross-posted from: http://www.vaccinestoday.eu/vaccines/video-competition-for-students/ Drumroll please! Vaccines Today is pleased to launch the 3rd edition of our Communication Challenge. This video competition offers students in Europe to win €1,000 and a trip to Brussels. Runners up prizes ...

Posted by: David Brown UNICEF / Marta Gacic Dobo WHO All too often overlooked, the home-based vaccination record maintains a central role in documenting immunization services received across the lifespan. WHO and UNICEF are working to heighten awareness of the importance of the home-based vaccinati...

In response to H1N1 pandemicity in 2009-10, Karnataka received Panenza vaccine in the mid March 2010 from GoI for vaccinating various categories of Health Care providers in ‘Pulse’ mode. On confirming from the Focal person at the National level and from the SEARO through the Regional Team Leader abo...

This is the third post on data for management (D4M) in the context of the GAVI Alliance 2020 supply chain strategy. D4M refers to the collection, analysis and use of data to measure and improve immunization (supply chain) performance. At this point, we would like to request your help and collaborat...

Last week the TechNet moderator introduced a new moderated discussion on GAVI’s immunization supply chain strategy Data for management. This week we continue the discussion. As GAVI partners continue to develop a strategy for strengthening immunization supply chains, one of the areas we are thinkin...

Sustainably Graduating, so they don’t come home to live with us Robert Steinglass, Immunization Team Leader, MCHIP Immunization Senior Advisor, JSI 18 February 2014 (appeared as a blog with live links on Health Planning and Policy Debated, 18 February 2014 and accessible at: http://blogs.ls...

Dear TechNet members, This week, TechNet launches its first moderated discussion. The topic for debate over the following month is the ‘Data for Management’ priority working group of GAVI’s immunization supply chain strategy. Please do share your valuable thoughts and experiences with us on this ...

High risk vaccination practices: Supportive Supervision for immunizing the vaccinated. Medical Colleges can play a pivotal role in the capacity building of service providers through healthy and effective Partnership. Quantity and the ‘Quality of the quantity’ are the need of the hr/day/week/ month...

In December 2012, the GAVI Board recognized the need for the Alliance to strengthen its coordination and support for immunization supply chain performance at global and country levels. To this end, the Alliance assembled a task force to develop an immunization supply chain strategy. After investiga...