by Dan Brigden, PATH In November 2012, the first immunization campaign to use a controlled temperature chain (CTC) took place in Banikoara in northern Benin. This photo set contains photographs taken during the campaign, where over 155,000 people were vaccinated using the CTC approach. Access ...

by Dao Ding Sang and Vu Minh Huong, PATH Over the last three years, Optimize has been working with Vietnam’s National Expanded Programme on Immunization (NEPI) to pilot a new computerized logistics management information system. The new system, named VaxTrak, is designed to help immunization health...

by Osman Mansoor, UNICEF, and Debra Kristensen, PATH As newer vaccines are introduced in low-income countries, immunization programs are facing difficult challenges related to proper storage, transport, tracking, and delivery of vaccines. While some of these challenges are not new, the importance o...

by Modibo Dicko, WHO, and Motomoke Eomba, John Snow, Inc. In November 2012, more than one hundred logisticians and supply-chain experts from 29 countries met in Kigali, Rwanda, for the fifth annual Global Health Supply Chain Summit. The three-day summit provided a forum for participants to share ...

by Raja Rao and Joseph Torres, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation In November last year, 17 different proposals on how to optimize immunization systems were each awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in round nine of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. Below, Raja R...

by Kirsten Mathieson and Lara Brearley, Save the Children One in five children—those from the poorest families, the most remote areas, and marginalized groups—are still denied their right to immunisation and other essential health services. Save the Children’s new report, Immunisation for All: No...

Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) with mobile technology is in practice in Kodagu District of Karnataka. However on scanning the data with immunogram lapses in the programme were detected in December 2012. Present template developed by providing technical assistance, advocacy, staff meeting, j...

by Simona Zipursky, PATH; Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey, WHO/AFRO; Olivier Ronveaux, WHO/AFRO; Sylvestre Tiendrebeogo, Consultant In November 2012, the first immunization campaign to use a controlled temperature chain (CTC) took place in Banikoara in northern Benin. MenAfriVac is a meningitis A vac...

Four new technical briefs from the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT offer guidance on important ways to strengthen malaria supply chains in developing countries. From techniques for stakeholder collaboration to identifying potential causes of commodity leakage, these publications address critical aspects of ...

The usefulness of 'immunogram and its IgM++ Application in 2 session sites in 2 AWCs of Health Sub centers Peraje of Planning unit PHC Sampaje attached to KVG Medical college with one month intervention is attached with an anticipation of scaling up to other subcenters of the same PHC, later other P...

This blog by Judith Kaufmann has been cross-posted from the Health Affairs blog. Many thanks. The week of December 17 was a grim one for the polio eradication effort in Pakistan. Seven Pakistani women health workers and two Pakistani men, all working to ensure the success of the polio campaign, ...

Cross-posted from the GAVI Alliance website with thanks! Professor Hans Rosling is a doctor and a professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. At the GAVI Partners' Forum, he showed how GAVI’s mission to increase access to immunisation fits into a new way of looking at...

Many thanks to Robert Davis for this lead! Recent Technical Updates POSSIBLE INTERRUPTION OF MEASLES VIRUS TRANSMISSION, UGANDA 2006-2009 Full text, with tables and figures, is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204633/pdf/10-0753_finalD.pdf SINGLE ENDEMIC GENOTYPE OF MEAS...

Hi, I would greatly appreciate your expert opinion on a technical question regarding extensive field monitoring of solar generator. The objective is to carry out a long-term, rather in-depth field monitoring of solar (DD) fridge installations for their long-term performance evaluation and programma...

I have never seen any document suggesting that low birth weight is a contraindication for new-born vaccination for institutional deliveries, although I have seen few paediatricians suggesting that, in case of low birth weight, vaccination of the new-born should be avoided. Please let me know yo...

Data from two session sites were scanned through the 'IMMUNOGRAM' tool for enumerating the vaccination status to obtain multi indicators. It was observed that both the areas achieved high vaccination coverage except for the measles second dose: 8% in one area and 0% in the other. On the coming regu...

Cross-posted from the GAVI CSO forum with many thanks. As you may know, a United Nations Environment Programme treaty is currently being negotiated on mercury. A number of organizations have been working to ensure that the instrument does not restrict access to the vaccine preservative, thiomersa...

For achieving >90% coverage in the shortest period at the session site level, a one-pager offline tool, which I wish to name as 'IMMUNOGRAM', is adequate. This tool incorporates the basic principle of 'My Village My Home', suitably expanded for IWs (Immunization Weeks) of IRI (Intensification of...

The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC), established in 2010, supports and advises the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB), with the review and/or formulation of immunization practices, operational standards, tools and technologies to strengthen an...

Dear colleagues, With the GAVI Partners' Forum and Africa Regional Conference on Immunization taking place in Dar Es Salaam in the coming two weeks, and with the recent endorsement of the Global Vaccine Action Plan, immunization is receiving a great deal of attention. Over the past three years, t...