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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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The HISP Centre at the University of Oslo invites you to a webinar that delves into the transformative power of integrated data systems in the field of immunization. In this webinar, we'll explore how the integration of Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIAs), Routine EPI data, Rapid Convenienc...
During my service delivery of house to house polio immunization for babies. Some parent will refuse their babies been vaccinated, saying that is against religious belief. Do you have any advice to share? ...
  WHO Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals (IVB) and partners have published a study in Vaccine: “Modeling the impact of vaccination for the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA 2030): Deaths averted due to vaccination against 14 pathogens in 194 countries from 2021 to 2030” T...
Greetings everyone, I have a query regarding the storage of OPV (Oral Polio Vaccine). If I were to store OPV in a freezer with temperatures ranging from -15 to -25 degrees Celsius, but it gets exposed to higher temperatures of -8 to -10 degrees Celsius during power outages, I'm curious about the fo...
Hello!  We (Rwanda) are about to conduct the national immunization coverage survey (2023). I found that the last reference manual by WHO dated 2018. Is this right? In case I missed it, who can share it with me? Sharing the link with the full info on the immunization coverage survey will be ver...
The Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH), led by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., is pleased to announce the publication of a case study describing the introduction of the typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) in Nepal. The case study highlights innovative approaches that successfully identified...
Dear all In response to the concerns expressed by some of my professional colleagues who are now in service, I wish to share the attachment for a rapid revolutionary adoption of healthy vaccination practices in our most populous country mainly by the private sector to be moderated by the public sec...
HLN released a new version (v1.39.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE). ICE is a state-of-the-art open source software system that provides clinical decision support for immunizations for use in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electronic Health Record (EHR), and Personal Health Re...
Contexte Depuis le début de la pandémie de COVID-19, des perturbations des services de santé essentiels ont affecté des pays de toutes les régions et de tous les niveaux de revenu. Les programmes d’immunisation ont été affectés de multiples façons, et ces perturbations se sont étendues aux sites fi...
Background Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been disruptions to essential health services affecting countries of all regions. Immunization programs were impacted in multiple ways, and those disruptions extended to fixed sites, outreach sessions and vaccination campaigns. As a re...
Dear all It is a pleasure to share the attached after a long time. We have established a “Dedicated Vaccination Centre” on the eve of introducing bivalent OPV and IPV in April 2016. The story was shared in 2016. Now, after 7 years, realizing the dream of establishing the same in East Point College ...
HISP Rwanda et l'Université d'Oslo ont le plaisir de vous inviter à la prochaine Académie DHIS2 en français sur les outils d’analyse, Niveau 1 qui se tiendra du 21 au 26 août 2023 à l'hôtel Galaxy de Kigali, au Rwanda. L'Académie sur les outils d'Analyse donne l'opportunité de comprendre les princi...
Join Sabin Vaccine Institute's Boost Community and WHO for a Special 2023 Fellowship Launch Event*Thursday, July 27 1:00 PM UTC/GMT In May 2022, the Sabin Vaccine Institute's Boost Community (Sabin) and World Health Organization (WHO) launched the COVID-19 Recovery for Routine Immunization Programs...
Jeudi 27 juillet, 13:00 UTC/GMT (trouvez votre heure locale) Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant ! En mai 2022, la Sabin Vaccine Institute's Boost Community (Sabin) et l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) ont l...
In May 2022, the Sabin Vaccine Institute's Boost Community (Sabin) and World Health Organization (WHO) launched the COVID-19 Recovery for Routine Immunization Programs Fellowship. The aim of this program was to support a cohort of nationa...
Dear Colleagues, The USAID Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program is seeking to understand the status of national pharmaceutical services units (NPSUs) —i.e., department or directorate or division within the central government usually responsible for pharmaceutical ser...
This new guidance document identifies successful strategies, enablers and examples of successful strategies to identify and offer vaccine doses against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to older adults, especially in low- and middle-income settings. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact o...
The global COVID-19 vaccination response provides many lessons on how to better prepare for and respond to future pandemics that require rapid, large-scale vaccination. This document includes a collection of experiences, best practices, and innovations used during the COVID-19 response that can also...
The HISP Centre at the University of Oslo is pleased to invite you to join the next webinar in our DHIS2 for Immunization webinar series, delivered in partnership with Gavi. *DHIS2 for Immunization webinar: Enhancing Data Utilization and Effective DHIS2 Implementation* Join us for an informative web...
Dear Colleagues, MTaPS https://www.mtapsprogram.org/, is pleased to be hosting a Virtual webinar series on pharmaceutical regulatory systems strengthening (RSS) in the Asian region. This two part series is open to ALL and will facilitate peer-to-peer learning from national (NRAs) and regional (ASEA...
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