The topic relates to Advance Market Commitments for whose benefit, the Pharma or the beneficiaries? The issue of Advance Market Commitments need urgent attention as this hs aquired a dangerous trend in industry. Advance Market Commitments is only benefitting pharma companies as there is only all ben...

PATH is investigating the potential of low-cost, post-market modifications to improve the performance of domestic refrigerators for vaccine storage, as an intermediate step to procurement of a WHO PQS pre-qualified vaccine refrigerator. We would like to learn more about the use of domestic vacci...

PQS Data I was recently trying to compare PQS data for direct drive refrigerators. Data for two parameters of prime importance are not always given: - Solar radiation reference period - Power consumption: Stable Running Data is also usually given for 43 deg C and sometimes for 32 deg C. D...

Questionnaire Regarding Measles Vaccine Vial Presentation Would a 5-dose vial of measles vaccine for routine immunization programs improve programme performance? We have received some reports that not all vaccination sessions include measles vaccination. Because the health workers are reluctan...

Cross posted from the 'http://www.who.int/immunization/gin/en/" target="_blank">Global Immunization News' with thanks. Claudio Politi and Daniela Urfer, WHO/HQ The Immunization Financing Database has been updated with cMYPs recently developed by countries and submitted to GAVI in June 2011 for f...

This has been cross-posted from the SABIN website with thanks. Since late 2008, the Sustainable Immunization Financing (SIF) Program has been operating in twelve African, and three Asian pilot countries. Using a collective action approach, SIF invites key stakeholders - especially parliamentar...

Many thanks to Alison Ruth Brunier for sharing this information Please note that we have today posted on the WHO web site an information sheet and questions and answers on thiomersal. - Information sheet - http://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/thiomersal_information_sheet/en/index.html - ...

Recently, I have seen a number of relatively large RFQ’s for direct drive refrigerators. These refrigerators do not have an ice pack freezer. From past feed back from our customers and WHO we have heard that ice packs are necessary to distribute vaccines to more remote areas. We are concerned that t...

This is not a new thing. After delivery requesting for an early discharge is a common high risk practice. There is a rising awareness among the community, thanks to social mobilization by the ASHA and the Govt for introducing "ASHA" who accompanies the precious pregnant women who deliver the future ...

by Sophie Newland, PATH and Gisele Corrêa Miranda, Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz The environmental, social, and economic impact of packaging materials is a growing interest and concern among governments, industry, universities, and regulatory bodies around the world. Innovations in design and material d...

by Darin Zehrung, Jean-Marie Préaud, and Emily Griswold, PATH In an effort to advance the development of promising new rotavirus vaccine candidates, PATH is assisting manufacturers in Brazil, China, and India in the formulation, manufacturing, and clinical development of the vaccine candidates. T...

by Kien Vu and Hai Le, PATH In many developing countries, vaccine storage in refrigerators is very costly for immunization programs. For years, solar refrigeration has helped those countries increase cold chain capacity and decrease energy costs and consumption. However, problems with battery mai...

by Kamel Senouci, AMP and Liliana Chocarro, Consultant As a wider array of vaccines become available in developing countries, many national immunization programs are starting to rely on the professional advice of National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) to help them make critical ...

by Miloud Kaddar, WHO/IVB and Sarah Schmitt, Consultant The World Health Organization (WHO) recently launched a new project to address the need for reliable, accurate, and neutral vaccine product, price, and procurement information among countries newly graduating from GAVI Alliance (GAVI) support...

Looking at the product sheets for carriers and cold boxes, I can see their vaccine storage capacity of 1 L, 2L, etc. But how does that translate into the number of vials that carriers and cold boxes typically hold? Many thanks in advance to your feedback!...

Rationale for introducing 5-dose vials of measles vaccine for routine immunization programs. Robert Steinglass of JSI/MCHIP challenges each of us to give our opinion on our preferences for measles vaccine vial size. At the just-completed Measles Partnership Annual Meeting at the American Red C...

This could become a reality if anti-thiomersal activists are successful . The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is developing a treaty on the production, importation, and export of mercury-added products. Thiomersal (also known as thimerosal, mercurothiolate, and sodium 2-ethylmercurio...

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In late 90's we are hearing about '0' OPV . To start with '0' meant one which is not entered in the immunization card. It can be administered on the day of birth ( 0 day) or within 2 weeks so that there will be a gap of 4 weeks between the 2 drops of potent OPV given in this period and the first dos...

At request of Government of India, MCHIP immunization team has prepared a ready reckoner for health workers, which captures key aspects of immunization that a peripheral health worker (ANM, LHV others) should know. Comments welcome from Technet colleagues Immunization-ready-reckoner-for-health-...