Come learn how implementation research is helping immunization programmes reach zero dose children! Under the MAINSTREAM project, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department at WHO in collaboration with local mentor institutes have...

Request for Expression of Interest (EOI): Development, Manufacturing, and Distribution of Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) and Enzyme Immunoassays (EIAs) for Acute Typhoid Fever Surveillance Typhoid fever (TF) is a severe systemic illness associated with abdominal pain, fever and occasionally can be l...

Join us on 8 December at 15h30 CET for a webinar introducing post market monitoring of cold chain equipment.  Post Market Monitoring (PMM) of immunization cold chain equipment (CCE) involves collecting and analysing performance data from health and storage facilities to support timely correcti...

Join us next Monday for an exciting webinar discussing Lessons Learned from the Big Catch-up!   The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department at WHO in collaboration with local partners have conducted case studies of the BCU i...

Dear Madam/Sir,   This is to inform you that WHO published, on 21 November 2025, an RFP named  Long Term Agreement for the provision of Technical Support to SAGE Executive Secretariat ref [WHO-SHQ-RFP-25-3063] The RFP is published on the United Nations Global Market website here,&n...

If 30 DTR is  kept inside the refrigerator to  monitor the vaccine temperature, do we need to keep freeze alert  or freeze tag also together with 30 DTR or not? Can some one help to respone. Thank you ...

Hello TechNet colleagues, I’m excited to share a new resource from VillageReach that highlights the critical role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in expanding equitable access to immunization services. The resource - Elevating CHWs Role in Immunization: The Key to Equita...

To mark World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day on 17 November, VillageReach invites you to the online premiere of our short film, Peer-to-Peer Learning to Improve HPV Vaccine Coverage. This film highlights how communities in Manica Province, Mozambique are working together to improve HPV v...

The World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Japan International Cooperation Agency are collaborating to strengthen implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health. In 2023, the three organizations jointly published the guide Strengthenin...

VillageReach just published a new brief calling for expanding CHWs' role in immunization services. From outreach to planning to vaccine administration CHWs can help reach more people with vaccines.  What CHW centric approaches have you seen work well in your work? What approaches would y...

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to share the latest edition of the Immunization for Resilience Newsletter, featuring Nigeria’s polio elimination challenge and the unfinished business of interrupting cVDPV2 transmission. Field reality Mid-morning at the Sokoto–Zamfara border. A vaccination team finds...

Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to share the latest edition of my newsletter on immunization in fragile and conflict-affected settings. In 2025, disease control is not just biological, it is geopolitical. When social systems fracture through unrest or war, immunization collapses quickly, zero-dose poc...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released an updated Position Paper on Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) vaccination, introducing new recommendations on dose-reduced schedules, including the 2-dose “1p+1” schedule (one primary dose plus one booster dose). While th...

Dear Colleagues, The Peer Learning Certificate 1: Supply Chain Data for Decision Making is the first of its kind eLearning program designed for supply chain professionals where you will learn alongside your peers and an expert.  Learn with Emmanuel Nfor - who has led supply chains a...

This happened in August 2025 !----------------------------------------------------🌍✨ A Double Milestone for Health and Immunization in Zambia!The DRIVE initiative and the Health Facility Solarization and Electrification Project✨🌍We are proud to celebrate two remarkable achievements that mark a new c...

[Français ci-dessous] Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we announce the upcoming edition of our Virtual KLIC Innovation Agora series - vKIA #10: "From Training to Transformation: Embedding Capacity-Building Systems into the Workplace" We warmly invite you to join u...

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to share an analysis and discussion on Cameroon’s HPV vaccination crisis as reflected in WUENIC 2024 data. Coverage declined from 68% in 2023 to 36% in 2024, increasing the risk of preventable cervical cancer among adolescent girls. The latest Immunization for Resilie...

Sharing our recent publication - my take home message is that we need to do better with the basis of our immunization data systems.   Recording vaccine doses administered: A global analysis of tally sheet design for infant and child immunizations. Higgins-Steele A, Shendale S, Grevendonk J, ...

Dear Colleaques, The Immunization for Resilience newsletter is delighted to announce our first commentary in the peer-reviewed journal, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, Taylor & Francis Group.“Closing the Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Gap in Cameroon: Global Evidence and Policy Imperatives,” o...

🌍 Introducing the WHO Vaccine Evidence Compendium A new one-stop resource to support countries in collecting and accessing reliable evidence for faster, evidence-based decisions on vaccine introduction, prioritization and portfolio optimization. 🔎 What is it? The WHO Vaccine Evidence Compend...