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The WHO Department of Immunization Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) is pleased to announce the upcoming second webinar series on Why Gender Matters for Immunization: IA2030.  The Immunization Agenda 2030 e...

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Since 2013, the Solina Centre for International Development and Research (SCIDaR) has supported the six states in Nigeria with the lowest immunization rates to make steady progress (an aggregate 138% improvement in DPT-3 - NICS/MICS by 2023). During this period, the SCIDaR team has collected numerou...
National pharmaceutical services units (NPSUs) are central government divisions responsible for medicines regulation, health supply chain, and pharmaceutical services. They impact the government’s ability to serve as stewards of the health system and ensure equitable and easy access to safe, effecti...
Dear TechNet community, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). WHO and other partners will be commemorating this with various events and publications throughout the year.  One idea being considered is a short video on the evolution...
Dear Sir/Madam, We would like to kindly invite you for your participation in our virtual consultation for the ongoing study ‘Method guides for evaluating the technical/fiscal efficiency of digital vaccine supply chain systems’ under the support of the Access and Delivery Partnership. This study ...
In case you missed it, People that Deliver and VillageReach have published an op-ed on the Devex homepage entitled Why we need to professionalize the health supply chain workforce. It explains that the supply chain management skills gap is one of the reasons why more than half of the African p...
In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) worldwide, and 1.3 million people died.  All this despite the availability of the BCG vaccine for infants.   The good news is that newer and better TB vaccines are on the horizon, and many are intended for use in ad...
  These advancements in technology in vaccine and cold chain have caught the attention of various stakeholders in the private and public sector, including the Ministry of Health in different countries and both local and global partners involved in immunization. As a result, they have invested ...
The USAID Medicines Technologies and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program is pleased to announce the availability of the above course through the Philippines Department of Health (DOH) Academy https://learn.doh.gov.ph/ (You need to register and then enrol in the ‘Gender and Development’ course). ...
Please join the Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH) on Wednesday, January 24, for an interactive webinar presented by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF). This session will feature real-world stories from frontline healthcare professionals working to identify and reach zero-dose children in Banglad...
Have you registered for the PtD Global Indaba? Don't miss out! Between 6 and 8 March 2024 People that Deliver (PtD) will host the second edition of the PtD Global Indaba in Bangkok, Thailand, a conference that focuses exclusively on human resources for health supply chain management. On Friday 8 Ma...
Dear Colleagues, National pharmaceutical services units (NPSUs) are central government divisions responsible for medicines regulation, health supply chain, and pharmaceutical services. They impact the government’s ability to serve as stewards of the health system and ensure equitable and easy acces...
Dear TechNet Community, sharing below a link to the new “The Delivery” website. https://the-delivery.org/ “Ambitious, imperfect and resilient. These are the remarkable stories and findings from the COVID-19 vaccine delivery, preserved for future generations in a digital replica of the very device ...
Check out this thought piece continuing the conversation started during the TechNet-21 conference in Panama at a side event: https://www.jsi.com/cold-chain-maintenance-done-differently/ How can we best translate this temperature data and insights into actions for different immunization supply chain...
Hi all,  I'm putting together a case for our organization to prioritze support for the immunisation supply chain vertical as I feel it's an area that we could make a significant contribution towards in terms of saving costs and reducing wastage.  I'm planning to break the case into 2 par...
Dear Colleagues, We wish to bring the following survey to your attention, aiming to collect insights on country preferences for improved heat stable vaccines. Anyone with experience working in vaccine cold-chains, who can speak to the challenges related to low heat-stability of vaccines and what i...
Register today for an interactive webinar, presented by the Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH), to hear real-world stories from frontline health workers working to identify and reach zero-dose children in Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda. Attendees will learn how practitioners are overcoming ba...
The HISP Centre at the University of Oslo invites you to join us for the next edition of our Gavi-sponsored DHIS2 for Immunization webinar series, which will be on the topic of Data Quality principles and functionalities.   We will explore how DHIS2 can be used to analyse and streng...
Dear colleagues and friends, Happy to share the EVM Assessment Report and Comprehensive Improvement Plans (cIP) from Lao PDR. Laos conducted its 3rd National EVM assessment in October 2022 using the revised and more comprehensive EVM 2.0 tool for the first time. The questionnaires were even transla...
Dear all, The WHO Prequalified team has published the priority list for 2024-2026: https://extranet.who.int/prequal/vaccines/vaccines-eligible-who-prequalification The priority categorization of vaccines is established by the WHO in consultation with UNICEF and the Revolving Fund of the Pan Americ...
Abstract submission for the PtD Global Indaba closes this Friday 1 December. Don't miss the oppportunity to present the work of your organisation!   Early-bird registration also ends this Friday, after which the registration price will rise.   Submit an abstract here: https://ptde...
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