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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 00647E : COMBATING RUMOURS
Follow-up on Post 00619E and 00643E
8 March 2004
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Note : Following the posting of the TechNet21 Annual Report, some members
asked the meaning of the various terms in the statistics tables about use
of our site. True tha...
POST 00644E : FROM HFC/CFC TO HC-BASED REFRIGERATION
Follow-up on Posts 00487E, 00493E, 00500E, 00513E, 00634E and 00638E
29 February 2004
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Alejo Bejemino (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from UNICEF/Afghanistan
discusses advantages and disadvantages of HC ...
POST 00643E : COMBATING RUMOURS
Follow-up on Post 00619E
27 February 2004
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A massive polio immunization effort has just been completed where 63
million children were vaccinated in a synchronized manner across 10 West
African countries. This was highly cr...
POST 00642E : IMPROVING COVERAGE 25 February 2004
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Posting by the moderator :
Those of you who have looked at the TechNet meeting agenda in details will
have noticed a session on "Improving Coverage" Tuesday, 23 March. This is
quite important as ...
POST 00641E : KEROSENE AND BOTTLED GAS FOR PERIPHERAL HEALTH FACILITIES
22 February 2004
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Bob Davis, from UNICEF/Nairobi, is looking for information on relative
costs of
kerosene versus bottled gas for peripheral health facilities, and any
reports on county ...
POST 00638E : FROM HFC/CFC TO HC-BASED REFRIGERATION
18 February 2004
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It appears that two of previous postings were not received. The first of
these was a survey reminder that it is too late now to repost. The other is
the following. My apologies for thi...
POST 00638E : FROM HFC/CFC TO HC-BASED REFRIGERATION
18 February 2004
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It appears that two of previous postings were not received. The first of
these was a survey reminder that it is too late now to repost. The other is
the following. My apologies for thi...
POST 00634E : FROM HFC/CFC TO HC-BASED REFRIGERATION
Follow-up on Posts 00487E, 00493E, 00500E and 00513E
26 January 2004
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Terry Hart (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from IT Power India is advocating for
the shift from HFC to HC-based refrigeration. TechNet h...
POST 00633E : POLIO ERADICATION 14 January 2004
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Tomorrow (already today for many of you) at 13:50pm in WHO, Ministers of
Health from Afghanistan,
Egypt, India, Niger, Nigeria and Pakistan will sign the historical Geneva
Declaration for the Eradication
of Poli...
POST 00633E : POLIO ERADICATION 14 January 2004
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Tomorrow (already today for many of you) at 13:50pm in WHO, Ministers of
Health from Afghanistan,
Egypt, India, Niger, Nigeria and Pakistan will sign the historical Geneva
Declaration for the Eradication
of Poli...
POST 00630E : END OF POLIO 11 January 2004
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Already a few months ago, UNICEF Press Center had announced that the famous
Brazilian journalist and Special Representative Sebastião Salgado was
publishing his latest book "The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a
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POST 00629E : DESTRUCTION OF VACCINES
Follow-up on Posts 00603E, 00606E, 00609E, 00611E, 00614E and 00617E
7 January 2004
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NOTE :
You are reminded that there is just one week left for participating in the
TechNet annual survey. It is very easy an...
POST 00620E : VACCINE WASTAGE 17 December 2003
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It is a pleasure to inform you that the document "Monitoring Vaccine
Wastage at Country Level", written by our colleague Ãœmit Kartoglu
(mailto:[log in to unmask]) from WHO, has now been officially publis...
POST 00619E : COMBATING RUMOURS 13 December 2003
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UNICEF Regional Office for East and Southern Africa (ESARO) has produced a
report two years ago with the help of Joyce Kramer, on antivaccination
rumours and how to combat them. The topics has lost no rele...
POST 00617E : DESTRUCTION OF VACCINES
Follow-up on Posts 00603E, 00606E, 00609E, 00611E and 00614E
25 November 2003
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Henrik Oja (mailto:[log in to unmask]) shares his experience on
incineration following questions raised in the previous posting on the
subject (P...
POST 00616E : POSITION PAPER ON VVM 21 November 2003
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Christopher G. Caulfield (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from
LifeLines Technology is informing us that a Policy Paper on VVM has been
published. This document contains important information for all those
i...
POST 00615E : SINGLE-DOSE VERSUS MULTI-DOSE
Follow-up on Post 00613E
17 November 2003
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Following the posting of the article "Single-dose versus multi-dose vaccine
vials....." in Post 00613E, Femi Oyewole (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from
WHO in Ethiop...
POST 00614E : VACCINE WASTAGE AND DESTRUCTION
Follow-up on Posts 00603E, 00606E, 00607E, 00619E and 00611E
13 November 2003
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My apologies! I must have pressed the wrong key. Before I realized, the
posting I had just started to prepare was gone...
Exce...
POST 00613E : SINGLE-DOSE VERSUS MULTI-DOSE 5 November 2003
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Attached is a very interesting article, "Single-dose versus multi-dose
vaccine vials for immunization programmes in developing countries" by Paul
K. Drain, Carib M. Nelson and John S. Lloyd, from...
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