POST 01219: SCHOOL-BASED TT VACCINATION 25 JANUARY 2008 Follow-up on posts: 01217E , 01214E , 01212E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Imp: Please do not send your contributions to [[email protected]][email protected][/email], f...

POST 01218: COLD CHAIN EQUIPMENT: A BUDGET FOR SCRAPPING FOLLOW UP ON POSTS 01216E, 01214E 22 January 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you to John Llyod for outlining a simple and efficient classification system of exis...

POST 01217E: SCHOOL-BASED TT VACCINATION FOLLOW UP ON POSTS POST 01212E AND POST 01214E 20 JANUARY 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Steinglass, who has comprehensively documented Indonesia’s experience with school-based T...

POST 01216E: COLD CHAIN MAINTENANCE Follow-up on POST 01214E 17 January 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lora Shimp adds to the cold chain maintenance discussion based on her experience in various countries. The need for access...

POST 01214E COLD CHAIN MAINTENANCE 8 JANUARY 2008 My apologies for the break in communications; and thank you for putting up with the delay. We are finally up and running! Cheers. I have quite a few contributions queued up for this post. But first, please note the change of address for all...

POST 01212E : TT SCHOOL VACCINATION 3 January 2008 ___________________________ It is with some trepidation and considerable eagerness that one takes over the reins from Claude Letarte, who has brought to his moderation a great degree of balance, dynamism and domain expertise. We take the ba...

POST 01210E : ROTAVIRUS VACCINE EFFICACY 29 December 2007 ____________________________________ Here is an article published in the Lancet late November. It assesses the efficacy of the oral live attenuated human rotavirus vaccine Rotarix (RIX4414) for prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis. Y...

POST 01207E : MEASLES 23 December 2007 __________________________________ As of this month, 4 of WHO's 6 regions had committed themselves to regional measles elimination. This month, the AFRO Task Force on Immunization, covering the 46 WHO member states of subsaharan Africa, passed the followi...

POST 01206E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Posts 01114E, 01127E, 01138E, 01164E, 01178E, 01186E, 01191E, and 01195E 22 December 2007 _____________________________________ [log in to unmask]">Ranjit Dhiman from WHO/WPRO replies to James Cheyne on vaccine needs calculation...

POST 01204E : WHO POSITION PAPER / RABIES 19 December 2007 ___________________________________ Please note that a revised WHO position paper on rabies vaccines was published in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record of 7 December. The paper is available in English and French. It will shortly...

POST 01203E : VACCINE FREEZING Follow-up on Post 01197E 18 December 2007 ____________________________________ This posting contains two contributions. The first is from [log in to unmask]">Alejo Bejemino, followed by a very short comment by [log in to unmask]">Rosamund Le...

POST 01201E : ERADICATION EFFORTS Follow-up on Posts 01174E and 01179E 14 December 2007 ____________________________ TIP : If you consult TechNet archives on Listserv, most of you will not see the active links in the body of the text, depending on configuration. Please go to the very bot...

POST 01198E : MNT ELIMINATION 9 December 2007 _____________________________ The following 13-page article is an interesting and comprehensive review of the issue posted online by the Lancet in September. "Maternal and neonatal tetanus" by Martha H Roper, Jos H Vandelaer and Franç...

POST 01197E : VACCINE FREEZING 7 December 2007 ____________________________________ If one single topic has often been discussed on the forum, it is vaccine freezing. Many people may still think that this is a problem restricted to developing countries. Not at all! Read the following article f...

POST 01195E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Posts 01114E, 01127E, 01138E, 01164E, 01178E, 01186E and 01191E 4 December 2007 _________________________________ This posting contains two contributions on two different aspects of vaccine stock management. James Cheyne from PATH sh...

POST 01194E : NEW DOCUMENT Follow-up on Post 01188E 1st December 2007 ___________________________ Søren Spanner from UNICEF/India has the following remarks about the Aide-mémoire for prevention of freeze damage to vaccines. ___________________________ Thank you for the posting. ...

POST 01191E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Posts 01114E, 01127E, 01138E, 01164E, 01178E and 01186E 25 November 2007 _________________________________ [log in to unmask]">Mogens Munck from Spain has some further questions on the WHO Vaccine Stock Management Package. We...

POST 01188E : NEW DOCUMENT _______________________________ Aide-memoire for prevention of freeze damage to vaccines Cold chain storage is necessary to prevent damage to vaccine due to heat exposure, but keeping vaccines too cold can be just as harmful as keeping them too warm - many vaccine...

POST 01186E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Posts 01138E, 01164E and 01178E 13 November 2007 ___________________________________ This posting contains three contributions. The first is from Modibo Dicko from WHO/AFRO who cofirms that different definitions are used in the AFRO reg...

POST 01184E : IMMUNIZATION CAPACITY-BUILDING 10 November 2007 ___________________________________ Readers might be interested in this, published on line as part of the series on poverty and human development this week, in Education for Health. Strengthening Immunization in a West African...