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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 01158E : VACCINE OUT-OF-THE-COLD-CHAIN
17 September 2007
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The following article describes the use of an out-of-the-cold-chain immunization strategy to improve the timeliness of the HB birth dose in rural China. It showed a large improvement ...
POST 01157E : VACCINATION IN SCHOOLS : REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
14 September 2007
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The following request comes from Jhilmil Bahl from WHO. You are invited to share the information with the forum too. It may interest many other members.
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POST 01155E : QUESTIONS ON CCM CARDS 8 September 2007
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The following questions come from Nihal Babalioglu presumably from Turkey. Please relpy directly to him with copy to Technet
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I would appreciate if I can get the answers to my...
POST 01153E : STOCK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Follow-up on Posts 01138E, 01127E and 01114E 4 September 2007 __________________________________ Dear Technet21 E-Forum, It is very encouraging that UNICEF/WHO have now produced a Vaccine Stock Management tool. At central level and regional levels, where ...
POST 01152E : REVISED WHO POSITION PAPER ON ROTAVIRUS VACCINES
2 September 2007
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Please note that a revised WHO position paper on rotavirus vaccines has just been published in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record. The paper is available in English and Fren...
POST 01148E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS
Follow-up on Posts 01125E, 01133E and 01141E
27 August 2007
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This posting contains two contributions discussing domestic refrigerators. The first is from Soren Spanner from UNICEF/India and the second from ...
POST 01146E : IMF AND HEALTH SPENDING 23 August 2007
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It is not so often that we discuss macroeconomics. Those of you interested by these questions may find the following report quite interesting. It is rather long (78 pages) and I admit that I didn’t read it all. The 7-...
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POST 01145E : VACCINE PREVENTABLE MORT...
POST 01142E : PQS DOCUMENTS : DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS
16 August 2007
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Dear all,
Final drafts of the PQS E10 category performance_ specifications and verification_protocol for safety box for the disposal of used sharps are now available. We would appreciate your com...
POST 01141E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS
Follow-up on Posts 01125E and 01133E
15 August 2007
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This posting contains three contributions. The first is from John Lloyd from PATH. Then Dereje Ayalew explains his question furth...
POST 01139E : QUESTIONS ON OPV
Follow-up on Post 01128E
12 August 2007
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This posting contains two contributions in response to André Yaméogo's question. The first comes from Steven_Wassilak of the CDC, and the second is a joint contribution by Hans_E...
POST 01138E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT 11 August 2007
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Vaccine_stock_management:_Guidelines_on_stock_records_for_immunization_programme_and_vaccine_store_managers_(WHO/IVB/06.12)
WHO recently published a new document on vaccine stock management. The docum...
POST 01137E : CERVICAL CANCER PREVENTION 9 August 2007
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The following new materials especially on cervical cancer prevention and HPV vaccine are sent to you by :
Scott_Wittet,
Advocacy and Communication,
Cervical Cancer Vaccine Project,
PATH
This m...
POST 01136E : VACCINE-PREVENTABLE MORTALITY 7 August 2007
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Colleagues,
I think this new pie graph from UNICEF/GAVI will be of interest. It shows that 25% of under-5 mortality is still vaccine-preventable.
I believe that this pi...
POST 01135E : SCIENCE FICTION ?? 5 August 2007
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For most of us if not all, computers, softwares and the Internet are such an integral part of our life that we even don't think about this any further. Despite important progress, large areas of the world are n...
POST 01132E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS
Follow-up on Post 01125E
3 August 2007
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This posting contains two contributions. The first is from Kaushik_B anerjee from WHO/HQ, and the second from Ian_Tansley from the United Kingdom. This last will likely p...
POST 01131E : TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICES - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Follow-up on Post 01123E
30 July 2007
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In response to Idrissa Yalcouyé’s request, [log in to unmask]">Terry [log in to unmask]">Hart from India points out that he...
POST 01128E : QUESTIONS ON OPV 26 July 2007
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Hello all,
For some time now, I have been looking for documentation on monovalent and trivalent OPV. I would like to know if there is a competition between the two types, on administration at a couple-of-days ...
POST 01127E : STOCK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Follow-up on Post 01114E
24 July 2007
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The following message is from Mogens Munck, from Spain whose name was quoted in the previous posting on this topic. A few members reported problems in downloading mSupply. ...
POST 01125E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS 19 July 2007
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The following message and questions are from [log in to unmask]">Dereje [log in to unmask]">Ayalew from Ethiopia.
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Dear all
While I discus...
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