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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 Fi...
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 00571E : VACCINE FREEZING IN COLD CLIMATES 14 June 2003 _____________________________________________ First a technical note. A few members have reported that whole postings or attachments to postings have been blocked/deleted as spams or suspicious material. Spams have become a real pest...
POST 00570E : CONTAMINATION OF OPEN VIALS 8 June 2003 ______________________________________________ Lynda Le Le Yi (mailto:[log in to unmask]) Regional Immunization Officer at the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) is requesting information of the degree of contamination of open vac...
POST 00569E : FREEZING OF SINGLE-DOSE VACCINE PRESENTATIONS Follow-up on POST 00568E 5 June 2003 ________________________________________________________________ This posting contains two contributions, both questioning the comparisons of freezing time of single-dose versus multiple-dose ...
POST 00568E : FREEZING OF SINGLE-DOSE VACCINE PRESENTATIONS 30 May 2003 _____________________________________________ This posting is an exchange between a few members on the above mentioned topic. It started with a question by Girindre Beeharry (mailto:[log in to unmask]) relayed by Robert...
POST 00564E : COLOR OF VVMs Follow-up to Posts 00558E and 00562E. 8 May 2003 ________________________________________________ Previous postings may have created some confusion as shows the message below from Anthony Battersby (mailto:[log in to unmask]). It is likely that other members...
POST 00563E : CONTAMINATION STUDY OF NEEDLE REMOVERS Follow-up on Post 00509E, 00510E, 00512E, 00514E and 00557E 1 May 2003 _______________________________________________________ In POST 00557E, PATH was informing us that the "Comparative Study the Evaluating Surface Contamination o...
POST 00562E : COLOR OF VVMs Follow-up to POST 00558E 26 April 2003 ________________________________________________ Moderator's note: It appears that some members do not see what should be seen in the first attachment to Post 00558E, "How to read VVM1". The top two VVMs shou...
POST 00558E : COLOR OF VVMs 15 April 2003 ________________________________________________ mit Kartoglu (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from WHO reports problems with the interpretation of VVM colors and announces a new WHO publication on VVM (link below). Two attachments illustrate correct VVM ...
POST 00557E : CONTAMINATION STUDY OF NEEDLE REMOVERS Follow-up on Post 00509E, 00510E, 00512E and 00514E 3 April 2003 ____________________________________________________ Janet Vail (mailto:[log in to unmask]) and Debra Kristensen (mailto:[log in to unmask]) inform us that the report of t...
POST 00553E : REQUESTS FOR COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS 28 February 2003 ___________________________________________________ First, we would like to inform members that links to some CDC sites have now been added to the links page on the Technet website. _____________ As was suggested by Alasd...
POST 00551E : JOINT REPORTING FORM ON VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES Follow-up on Posts 00538E, 00542E, 00543E and 00549E 18 February 2003 ________________________________________________________________________ Alasdair Wylie (mailto:[log in to unmask]) is commenting further on the Joint R...
POST 00549E : JOINT REPORTING FORM ON VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES Follow-up on Posts 00538E, 00542E and 00543E 14 February 2003 ________________________________________________________ This posting contains 2 contributions. First Alejo H. Bejemino (mailto:[log in to unmask]) Cold Chain O...
POST 00547E : CHOLERA VACCINATION 3 February 2003 __________________________________________ Mohamed Saeed (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from UNICEF is asking some questions on cholera vaccination. Nora Dellepiane (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from WHO Headquarters is replying. For those who wo...
POST 00543E : JOINT REPORTING FORM ON VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES Follow-up on Posts 00538E and 00542E 27 January 2003 ________________________________________________________________________ Both Robert Steinglass (mailto:[log in to unmask]) and Alasdair Wylie (mailto:[log in to unmask]) commen...
POST 00542E : POST 00538E : JOINT REPORTING FORM ON VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES Follow-up on Post 00538E 22 January 2003 ________________________________________________________________________________ Olivier Ronveaux (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from Vaccine Assessment and Monitoring a...
POST 00539E : ASPIRATION BEFORE INJECTION Follow-up on Post 00537E 12 January 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Mary Catlin (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from the USA makes some comments on John Clements' reply to Bernard Kaic. This is followed by a s...
POST 00539E : ASPIRATION BEFORE INJECTION Follow-up on Post 00537E 12 January 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Mary Catlin (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from the USA makes some comments on John Clements' reply to Bernard Kaic. This is followed by a s...
POST 00538E : JOINT REPORTING FORM ON VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES; A REQUEST FOR COMMENTS 11 January 2003 _______________________________________________________________________________ Ümit Kartoglu (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from WHO is asking for your comments on the reporting form on vac...
POST 00537E : ASPIRATION BEFORE INJECTION 4 January 2003 _____________________________________________________________________ Bernard Kaic (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from Croatia has submitted a query that could be of interest to many of you. It is thus reproduced here below with the reply p...
POST 00528E : VACCINE WASTAGE 5 December 2002 _________________________________________________________________________________ Ümit Kartoglu (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from WHO would appreciate comments on a document that he has written on Vaccine Wastage and submits here for review. Thi...
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