The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) has been developed to estimate the impact of health interventions and can consider multiple interventions simultaneously. This new computer-based tool allows users to set up and run multiple scenarios to look at the estimated impact of different intervention packages and ...

In day today life we see so many things happening around us which we can capture and use 'philosophically' in our training programmes. On bringing the two gates closer but not touching each other within a minute the red ants 'constructed' a bridge across a gap of 8 to 10 ants length, a similar gap o...

Dear All, I am attaching a document titled Improving UIP Coverage in India, a concept note. The note looks at the current UIP situation, constraints and suggests few solutions to improve UIP coverage and quality in India over medium to long term. I hope the forum members would like it and add resp...

It all started with this letter to an e-group: Dear Friends, The need for screening before vaccination and the presence of a doctor during the procedure, as stated by Dr T Jacob John, cannot be overemphasized. I am happy that this much sense is now seeping back into mainstream thinking. Now what...

To update the Multi-Dose Vial Policy, WHO and the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC) has been designing a "visual cue". This is a small logo that will be placed on vaccine vials to allow health workers to judge whether to discard the vial at the end of a session, or allow the...

This questionnaire comes from Andrew Garnett. Please do respond. WHO and PATH are developing specifications for a new generation of large capacity cold boxes. We believe that these will improve the efficiency and security of vaccine deliveries at the national and provincial levels, helping countr...

Both the care takers and the service providers generally believe that by administering the vaccines one gets protected against the VPD's. But it's well known that neither the vaccine has 100% efficiency nor the immune system of all will respond uniformly. This intrinsic factor becomes the 'Limiting'...

The potential of immunization to improve public health continues to grow as new vaccines against major diseases are developed. The recent infusions of support for global immunization, both through the recent replenishment of GAVI Alliance funding and the Decade of Vaccines, will increase the worldw...

I found this discussion on Global Health Delivery Online. A nursing student was interested in forming an organization on global health nursing ( http://www.ghdonline.org/nursing/discussion/forming-a-student-organization-for-global-health-n/#reply-4483?id=6434756&format=text&type=digest) Has any...

An interesting article from pharma-iq.com on RFID and real time monitoring to deliver temperature sensitive drugs. Comments? http://www.pharma-iq.com/cold-chain/articles/cold-chain-logistics-in-healthcare-a-modern-altern/&mac=PharmaIQ_OI_Featured_2011&utm_source=pharma-iq.com&utm_medium=email&utm_ca...

by Erida Nelaj, Albania Institute for Public Health and Jan Grevendonk, PATH In May 2011, the Albanian Institute for Public Health (IPH) launched a new web-based immunization registry and vaccine ordering system in the district of Skodra. Based on the acceptability and success of the system in Skod...

by Jan Grevendonk and Elaine Griffith, PATH and Anup Akkihal, Logistimo One of the perennial struggles in any supply chain is to deliver the right amount of product to the right place at the right time. This is especially true for essential medicines and temperature-sensitive products like vaccin...

by Leah Hasselback, VillageReach and Jan Grevendonk, PATH As more and more countries consider the move from paper-based systems to electronic health information systems, there is a pressing need for global coordination and collaboration among efforts. This is particularly true in the emerging and f...

by Dmitri Davydov, UNICEF Supply Division and John Lloyd, PATH In partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Danish Technical University has begun a pro bono study on vaccine export packaging designs that would extend the safe, useful life of export packaging to allow for d...

by Drew Meek, WHO/QSS; Sheila Cattell, IFPMA; and Joanie Robertson, PATH In the packaged food and consumer products industries, barcodes have become a way of life. Most large supermarkets around the world use barcode scanners at the checkout counter, and an average smartphone can now scan barcodes...

by David Lubinski, PATH; Wendy Bomett-Dodie, USAID | Deliver; and Chipopa Kazuma, Medical Stores Limited, Zambia In February 2011, Zambia’s Ministry of Health invited partners involved in supply chain management to help them develop a shared vision, roadmap, and user requirements for a logistics ma...

This article appears in the 23 June 2011 issue of Vaccine: "Assessing the potency of oral polio vaccine kept outside of the cold chain during a national immunization campaign in Chad". This study provides proof-of-concept evidence that certain typs of OPV remain potent and thus can be kept, for limi...

Dear Moderator, I wish to underline that GAVI's push for more funds for vaccines has been questioned by the MSF. I think GAVI needs to respond to MSF and clarify their stand so that everyone knows why is something being done and at what cost. Also we wish to know what is GAVI doing for transfer of t...

Our NGO- Mission India Foundation (www.mifusa.org) has taken up another vaccine to make it accessible to kids in rural parts of India. We have the target to immunize 5000 kids and teenagers (2-18 years age) in the year 2011. We are using a Intra-muscular vi-polysaccharide vaccine for the purpose. My...

All vaccines are to be kept between 2 to 8 degree C both in Public and Private sector. I feel there is a need for 'COLD REVOLUTION' to immunize the vaccinated. Cold-revolutionP1.pdf Cold-revolutionP2.pdf...