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Dear colleagues, I’ve created a repository of national immunization policies and SOPs for vaccine management at facility level. This comes from what is available online, combined with publications that have been shared with me.
https://www.technet-21.org/en/topics/programme-management/sops
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Four years into its strategic plan, the Measles & Rubella Partnership's Midterm Review reveals that while progress has been made, countries and global institutions must take urgent, collective action to reach elimination targets by 2030.
At the end of 2024, 83 countries had eliminated measles a...
Colleagues,
WHO has released the Full Value of Improved Influenza Vaccines Assessment (FVIVA), looking at the potential health, economic and policy impacts of next-generation influenza vaccines that offer broader and longer-lasting protection than current seasonal products.
Some key takeaways that...
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POST 01421E: SYRINGE MELTERS
FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01406E & 01411E
24 APRIL 2009
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Joanie Robertson responds to Hans Everts’s questions regarding how many syringes of a given type can be melted and whether the melter is easily transportable....
POST 01420E: INJECTION SAFETY SUPERVISION TOOL
FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01412E & 01415
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I have looked through the Injections Safety Supervision Tool.
My observation is in section 3 on safe disposal; It only addressed placing of the syri...
POST 01415E: INJECTION SAFETY SUPERVISION TOOL
FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01412E
11 APRIL 2009
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Thanks for the injection safety supervision tool posted on the TechNet21 (forum). I think it is a laudable effort to simplify existing tools
- and thus maki...
POST 01412E: FOUR TOOLS FOR SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION
5 APRIL 2009
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Attached please find the English version of our 4 tools for supportive supervision of health centers in immunization.
We would very much appreciate your feedback on the use of th...
POST 01411E: SYRINGE MELTER
FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01406E
2 APRIL 2009
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In addition to mentioning that the capacity is sufficient and that the melter can deal with 1-3 liters of syringes, it would be useful to know how many syringes of a given type ...
POST 01410E: STUDY ON COOL WATER PACKS
31 MARCH 2009
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Umit Kartoglu from the World Health Organisation sends this report on the latest study on cool water packs, i.e. water packs refrigerated between 2°C to 8 °C, and their impact on the cold life...
POST 01408E: NEW PACK-ANIMAL TRANSPORTABLE SOLAR-POWERED REFRIGERATOR
28 MARCH 2009
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Many thanks to Joanie Robertson ([[email protected]][email protected][/email]) from PATH for sharing this report with us.
She writes: PATH has been aw...
POST 01407E: EPI IN LEBANON
26 March 2009
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Dear all,
Greetings from Lebanon...
This is to kindly share with you, as I promised, (the) EPI documentary and a TV spot that Ministry of Public Health has produced, knowing that they are both ...
POST 01406E: EVALUATION OF SYRINGE MELTER
22 MARCH 2009
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Dear TechNet moderator,
I am forwarding a report of an evaluation of a syringe melter conducted in Andhra Pradesh in 2008. The melter was developed by Mike Werner, then of New Paradigm A...
POST 01405E: OPTIMUM AGE FOR MEASLES VACCINATION
FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01403E
21 MARCH 2009
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The WHO position paper on measles vaccine says that, "The optimum age for measles vaccination depends on the local epidemiological situation and on p...
POST 01403E: MEASLES VACCINATION SCHEDULE
17 MARCH 2009
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Riadh Karem ([[email protected]][email protected][/email]), a public health doctor from Iraq, has a question regarding the measles vaccination schedule:
He says that at present there ...
POST 01401E: RESURGENCE OF MEASLES
11 MARCH 2009
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In some countries where measles was near elimination there has been a sudden resurgence of the disease. Low vaccine coverage could have many reasons, including financial impediments, and geographica...
POST 01395E: SEARCH ENGINES FOR SURVEILLANCE/SMS FOR DOTS MONITORING
26 FEBRUARY 2009
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USING SEARCH ENGINE DATA FOR SURVEILLANCE
The two articles talk about how Google can be used to predict flu epidemics by analyzing search statistics in ...
POST 01392E: MORE ON SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION
FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01386E AND 01388E
21 FEBRUARY 2009
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Dear Technet moderator,
Your constituency may be interested in a new approach to supportive supervision we are introducing in Mali. In past ye...
POST 01391E: VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO VIRUS
18 FEBRUARY 2009
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In the context of the discussions on polio eradication on our forum (see POSTS: 01354E), these reports hold great interest. Cross-posting yet again from CSU, with a big thank you to Bob D...
POST 01388E: SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION IN INDIA
FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01386E
11 FEBRUARY 2009
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Though the article referred to by James Cheyne has already been posted on the forum (see POST 01252E) I am reposting it since it has relevance in the context of ...
POST 01386E: TRAINING IN SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION
8 FEBRUARY 2009
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Tasnim Partapuri ([email=%[email protected]%3E]%[email protected]%3E[/email]) of ImmunizationBasics shares tools for supportive supervision training with TechNet21 readers. ...
POST 01384E: EXPERIENCES OF INTRODUCING HPV
5 FEBRUARY 2009
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Can anyone share their experience of introducing HPV in their countries? Especially those in the SEARO Region.
Thanks
Karma Tshering ([[email protected]][email protected][...
POST 01384E: EXPERIENCES OF INTRODUCING HPV
5 FEBRUARY 2009
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Can anyone share their experience of introducing HPV in their countries? Especially those in the SEARO Region.
Thanks
Karma Tshering ([[email protected]][email protected][...
POST 01385E: EXPERIENCES OF INTRODUCING HPV VACCINE
5 FEBRUARY 2009
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Inadvertently omitted 'vaccine' from the post title, therefore reposting the contribution. No intention of encouraging bio-terrorism. Entirely an error of omission. Many apologies. ...
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