Many thanks to Mojtaba Haghgou for sharing this with our readers. The TechNet21 website will soon have a software depot from which you will be able to download VSSM and other latest software. Vaccination Supply Stock Management (VSSM) version 4.7, is a computer application, now used in the centra...

UPDATE ON MATERNAL NEONATAL TETANUS ELIMINATION AS OF OCTOBER 2010 WHO/CHERG estimates for causes of child mortality show that Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) was responsible for 59,000 neonatal deaths in 2008.Though the figure shows a 92% reduction in mortality from the 800,000 deaths estima...

Does anyone have any idea where I could possibly find information about the number of vaccines wasted due to problems with things like freezing? Thanks....

Dear Editor, UNICEF, in collaboration with WHO and PATH, took a country-wide extensive evaluation of Cold Chain and Vaccine Management in Uganda in 2007. I happened to be the Team Leader for the project. I take the opportunity to attach the report and request you to share it with all TechNet21 me...

James Cheyne shares with us a film on immunnization. It comes with a cautionary note that the video contains language that some may find offensive. Another weapon in our armoury against immunization naysayers!  Please use the following link to see the film, which has been uploaded on YouTube:  http:...

Compressor Replacement Without a Vacuum Pump Replacement of a compressor requires the use of a vacuum pump. Solar powered vaccine refrigerators are generally located away from the utility grid. Most vacuum pumps are powered by AC grid power making compressor replacement difficult. We have develo...

I have one suggestion on a different topic for which I need comments from experts.  In Polio Eradication programs, the Non-Polio Entero virus rates in the stool specimens is taken as a proxy indicator of adequate stools and effective reverse cold chain. This indicator becomes all the more important ...

Dear Friends, More than 225 Rag pckers, Door to door garbage collectore and News paper howkers were administered FREE INTRADERMAL preventive vaccination ( Pre-prophylaxis) on World Rabies Day 2010 at State Intradermal antirabies Clinic and research centre, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. ( Some P...

Cross posted from http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog with many thanks.  MDG 4: Delivering on the Promise of Immunization  09/14/2010  Rebecca Fields and Robert Steinglass: Make vaccination a reality for all children (image:http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/delive...

The current issue of the alumni magazine from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/) has a feature on supply chain management. There are many links to explore: A Global Supply Chain Forum (http://gsb.stanford.edu/scforum/) An article on the supply chain 'Bu...

Under the auspices of the UNICEF-led Cold Chain and Logistics Task Force (http://www.unicef.org/immunization/index_42071.html), with a temporary secretariat housed at Project Optimize (http://www.who.int/immunization_delivery/systems_policy/optimize/en/index.html), a group of partners and stakeholde...

New committee to advise the World Health Organization on immunization practices by Shelley Deeks, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion and IPAC Chairperson, and Rudi Eggers, WHO/IVB In late June, Dr. Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Director of Immunization, Vaccinations and Biologicals (IVB) a...

The first global training on effective vaccine management by Hailu Makonnen Kenea, Souleymane Kone, and Modibo Dicko from WHO; and Andrew Garnett, consultant. On July 29, 2010, after ten days of intensive and interactive training, 29 global, regional, country, and independent cold chain and log...

China considers VVMs by Qiyou Xiao, China National Biotec Group; Shuyan Zuo, WHO China; and Jack Zhang, PATH China In June, the first national seminar and information session about the necessity and feasibility of using vaccine vial monitors (VVMs) on domestically produced vaccines used in China w...

by Steve Landry, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Anne Schuchat, CDC; Xavier Tomsej, USAID; Thomas O'Connell, UNICEF; David Lee, Management Sciences for Health, and Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, WHO In July 2010, Optimize convened workshops in Washington, DC and Seattle, WA, to engage a wide range o...

Using mobile phones to track immunizations by Jørn Ivar Klungsøyr on behalf of http://www.openXdata.org (http://www.openXdata.org) and Jan Grevendonk, PATH In August 2010, the Norwegian Research Council approved funding for a new project that will allow countries to manage immunization programs wit...

James Cheyne shares with us the jointly produced (IFRC/GAVI Alliance) advocacy report on immunization, entitled "Unfinished business". The report was pre-released at the UN Palais in Geneva earlier this month and will be more formally launched at the forthcoming MDG Summit. The press re...

Dear Mr. James, Good day and thanks for this information. It is a welcome idea. Kind regards Pearl...

Global Health eLearning Center: New Homepage and Certificate Programs For TechNet21 readers who do not receive Bob Davis's regular and informative Child Survival Updates, we suggest you look into the following: We are excited to announce that the USAID Global Health eLearning Center (http://www.glo...

As regards prophylaxis you can address only specific group. How long are you going to use the prophylaxis? These are the issues to be addressed and I appreciate your concern. Regards, Nagaraj...