POST 00709E : GAVI UPDATE 22 August 2004 ___________________________ Please find attached the latest Information Update on GAVI and Vaccine Fund related activities dated 17 August 2004 including the list of Regional Meetings of relevance to GAVI objectives for the period July-September 2004. ...

POST 00708E : ACCIDENTAL NEEDLESTICK Follow-up on Posts 00701E and 00706E 21 August 2004 _______________________________ Amber Hogan (mailto:[email protected]) from the United States discusses preventive measures of accidental needlesticks. _______________________________ Best practi...

POST 00707E : LOGISTICS TRAINING Follow-up on Posts 00689E, 00697E and 00703E 18 August 2004 _______________________________ This posting contains two contributions. The first very short is from Søren Spanner (mailto:[email protected]) and the second from Jean Bomani (no @ddress avai...

POST 00706E : ACCIDENTAL NEEDLESTICK Follow-up on Post 00701E 15 August 2004 _______________________________ Two replies were received following Vladimir's Petrovic's posting (00701E). The first is from Steve Wiersma (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO who discusses the issue. The second ...

POST 00705E : GLASS SYRINGES DISPOSAL Follow-up on Posts 00696E, 00700E and 00704E 12 August 2004 _______________________________ Philippe Jaillard (mailto:[email protected]) from AMP replies to Anthony Battersby's message (Post 00700E) _______________________________ Dear Anthony,...

POST 00704E : GLASS SYRINGES DISPOSAL Follow-up on Posts 00696E and 00700E 8 August 2004 _______________________________ Anil Varshney ([log in to unmask]">mailto:[log in to unmask]) from India proposes a solution for glass syringes disposal. _______________________________ ...

POST 00703E : LOGISTICS TRAINING Follow-up on Posts 00689E and 00697E 5 August 2004 _______________________________ Mogens Munck (mailto:[email protected]) from Spain makes a contribution in agreement with Modibo Dicko and Robert Steinglass. _______________________________ I am in tota...

POST 00701E : ACCIDENTAL NEEDLESTICK 28 July 2004 _______________________________ Vladimir Petrovic (mailto:[email protected]) from Serbia-Montenegro, asks a question that goes far beyond the scope of secondary prevention in public health. I will let specialists respond to the question of immed...

POST 00700E : GLASS SYRINGES DISPOSAL Follow-up on Post 00696E 24 July 2004 _______________________________ Two contributions were received on this topic of glass syringes disposal following Philippe Jaillard's request (Post 00696E). The first is from Chambard-Benalleg (mailto:chambar...

POST 00699E : VACCINATION WITH NO SYRINGE BURNED 21 July 2004 _______________________________ Jorge Emmanuel (mailto:[email protected]) is circulating this press release concerning syringe disposal without incineration during a measles follow-up campaign. He is one of the authors of...

POST 00698E : OPINIONS ON THERMOMETERS 19 July 2004 _______________________________ Hello, For sharp waste management we have installed 51 incinerators De Monfort in Senegal. Keeping in line with usage instructions, we suggest that each operator should be equipped with a thermometer. Our re...

POST 00697E : LOGISTICS TRAINING Follow-up on Post 00689E 15 July 2004 _______________________________ This discussion started on the topic "From HFC/CFC to HC-based Refrigeration". It progressed by moving towards logistics training which was essentially the topic of the previo...

POST 00696E : GLASS SYRINGES DISPOSAL 12 July 2004 _______________________________ In middle-income countries, a number of vaccines are proposed in pre-filled single-dose glass syringes. Such countries do not always have the infrastructures and financial means of rich countries, and experience...

POST 00695E : APPROACHES TO ELIMINATING FREEZING : HEALTH WORKERS' VIEWS Follow-up on Post 00684E and 00693E 9 July 2004 _______________________________ Robert Davis (mailto:[email protected]) from UNICEF/ESARO shares results of an opinion poll carried among Tanzanian health workers on ap...

POST 00694E : PIS EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK Follow-up on Posts 00670E, 00676E and 00688E 5 July 2004 _______________________________ Abdoulaye Djigo (mailto:[email protected]) from Sénégal gives his point of view on the performance of some refrigerators. The example he gives of a privat...

POST 00693E : APPROACHES TO ELIMINATING FREEZING : A STUDY REPORT Follow-up on Post 00684E 3 July 2004 _______________________________ Alejo Bejemino (mailto:[email protected]) shares the Afghan experience in the transport of freeze-sensitive vaccines. ______________________________...

POST 00691E : EXPERIENCE WITH VISITEMP DATALOGGER? 27 June 2004 ____________________________ Alasdair Wylie (mailto:[email protected]) from the UK is interested to know if anyone has used the new VisiTemp data logger produced by Remonsys which was introduced at Technet, and if so ...

POST 00690E : WASTE MANAGEMENT EVALUATION Follow-up on Posts 00665E and 00675E 25 June 2004 ____________________________ It is true that Health Care Waste should be treated in a global and integrated manner. However, this requires qualified human resources, sophisticated techniques, and ...

POST 00689E : FROM HFC/CFC TO HC-BASED REFRIGERATION Follow-up on Posts 00513E, 00634E, 00638E, 00644E, 00648E, 00654E, 00663E and 00673E 24 June 2004 ____________________________ Modibo Dicko (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO AFRO comes in support of Abdoulaye Djigo's comments on trai...

POST 00688E : PIS EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK Follow-up on Posts 00670E and 00676E 21 June 2004 _______________________________ Three further contributions were received on this topic. The first is by Adelaide Shearley (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO Namibia and the second tra...