This IVB document is now online at WHOLIS   WHO-UNICEF guidelines for developing a comprehensive multi-year plan (cMYP)(WHO/IVB/14.01) This updated document provides guidance to countries to make national comprehensive multi-year strategic plans (cMYP) for immunization, using the Global Va...

Today in the PG Activity, PGs questioned me about 'Thermal assault' for which I could not get adequate references. As of now we need to keep the reconstituting diluent in the cold chain at least a day earlier to vaccination day so that it will not give a thermal assault to the lyophilized vaccine a...

Many thanks to Umit Kartoglu for sharing these videos with the TechNet-21 forum! WHO/EPELA releases the most recently produced expert videos on VVM-based vaccine management. These videos are specifically produced for the new EPELA authentic e-learning course on vaccine vial monitor-based vaccine ...

With the WHO declaration of ‘polio eradication – a public health emergency – and measles elimination by 2020’, routine immunization is gaining more importance. There is an urgency of closing the population immunity gap (lesson learnt from Syria and other countries). Primary Health Cen...

Unknown gunmen on Saturday the 28th of December 2013 opened indiscriminate fire on entering a hospital and fled from the scene. Subsequently, one polio worker, Zahid Gul, was killed on the spot whereas ward orderly Niqab Khan and a woman sustained severe injuries. Meanwhile, policemen reached the...

Immunogram (IgM) 2+ is completing one year from Xmas 2012 to Xmas 2013. The following is a brief write-up. On Christmas Eve of 2012, Immunogram, IgM++ was posted as a ‘gift’ to the viewers of Technet. It is completing one year by this Christmas 2013. It started with 2 session sites of one sub-cen...

This one has been cross-posted from the IAPHL forum with many thanks! We are excited to offer you a new quiz from PHiL and a module developed by DELIVER - both on Performance Based Incentives (PBI). Consider it a year end gift to you all. As you may know there has been tremendous growth in the...

Wild Polio virus type 1 (WPV1) stills exists in Quetta as samples collected from the city's sewage system suggested persistence of the virus in the environment. The detection of polio virus has rung alarming bells with potential threat for millions of children of below the age of five in the cit...

An online version of the ICT Toolkit developed by project Optimize has been published on the TechNet-21.org website. http://ict.technet-21.org The original document, entitled Planning an information systems project: A toolkit for public health managers, is available as a PDF on the PATH and WHO we...

Cross-posted from the IAPHL forum with thanks! The post summarizes the discussion over three weeks. Week 1: Introduction to Supply Chain Design ? Supply Chain Design is about achieving objectives (Reliability, Responsiveness, Agility, Cost, Assets) by configuring infrastructure and process...

Dimagi is pleased to announce that it will support five organizations from various sectors in India and Nepal to explore the use of mobile technology for logistics and supply chain management in low-resource settings. Each organization will be supported to launch a proof of concept of CommTrack, an ...

The new WHO EVM Assessment Tool (version 1.0.9) is available for download from the EVM restricted access website: https://extranet.who.int/evm . To install the tool: • Login to the restricted access website • Click Get EVM Tools • Download the Assessment Tool Installer (version 1.0.9) • Unzi...

Immunization supply chains are regularly reviewed and plans made to improve them. All of the GAVI eligible countries carry our regular and comprehensive EVM reviews which help ministries focus their attention on the parts that most need help. Supply chains for drugs are not so fortunate; assessm...

I guess some of you would have followed recent developments around wild polio virus circulation in Syria where they are now clinical cases being reported. see http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_10_29/en/index.html I am trying to gather guidances, publications, reports of polio intervention among re...

The GAVI Alliance is currently developing its strategy for the period 2016-2020, which will be presented to the GAVI Board for adoption in June 2014. The approach to develop the new strategy is highly inclusive and builds on the input of all partners and stakeholders in the Alliance. Based on consul...

To strengthen public health supply chains, policymakers, supply chain managers, and development partners need to know the real costs of delivering commodities. Identifying these costs and the sections of the supply chain that are driving costs can give decisionmakers the data they need to ensure ade...

Dear all, I hope this is a place where I can ask a question in the forum. WHO PQS-qualified refrigerators used frequently at the health facility level (E003) have a holding capacity measured by a particular WHO testing process. However, most fridges also have certain limitations on that holdi...

We think of fridge holdover time (autonomy) in the context of power shortage, whether cloudy weather in the case of solar, or power cuts for A/C systems. While this will see functioning equipment through power shortages and keep vaccine 'safe' for a given duration (a parameter which varies immensel...

Many thanks to Robert Steinglass for sharing this information with TechNet-21. As diseases emerge and infections re-emerge, new and improved vaccines are needed. The decisions about which vaccines should be developed first can affect millions of people's health, quality of life, and economic prog...

by Tina Lorenson, PATH, and Joanie Robertson, GAVI Alliance Newer vaccines often require more cold chain space and more reliable cooling equipment than traditional ones. For many national immunization programs, these requirements present a serious challenge. Aware of the problem, for the last fiv...