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...

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...