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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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Due to ongoing problems with the WHO website, and increased demand caused by the COVID-19 response, I have created a new topic page that lists the key ISC planning tools created by the WHO Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).  Cold Chain Equipment Inventory and Gap Analys...
Hello everyone! Im Charisse Tan from Philippines. I would like to know if there are official publication or established SUSAR for any of the covid-19 vaccine? What is the difference between SUSAR and serious AEFI? Thank you :)...
NEW PAGE ALERT!!! TechNet-21 Page on Human Resources & Leadership Access page here - https://www.technet-21.org/en/topics/immunization-workforce 2021 is designated as the International Year of the Health and Care Workers. The health workforce plays a crucial role in ensuring availability of q...
Project Last Mile (PLM) is an innovative public-private partnership launched in 2010 between The Coca-Cola Company, The Coca-Cola Foundation, United States Agency for International Development (USAID),President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), The Global Fund and Bill & Melinda Gates F...
PATH, in collaboration with TechNet-21, the East African Community (EAC) Immunitzation Group, and The Vaccine Procurement Practitioners Network (VPPN), are delighted to invite you to join a webinar on using PATH's Vaccine Cost Calculators to inform immuni...
Vietnam’s National Immunization Information System (NIIS) is an ongoing story of a sustainably planned, government-run, nationwide electronic immunization registry (EIR) and vaccine tracking system that demonstrates a public-private partnership that both built the infrastructure and provided the ser...
We ask for your opinion and assessment: We are pleased to announce that some days ago we were able to hand over our series-ready Solar-Hybrid PCM Reefer (island solution) SUNTAINER. Please watch the video here (90 seconds): https://youtu.be/hFN9o2wvEJ4 The production took place in technical inf...
There are now two COVID-19 vaccine introduction courses available. The Orientation to national deployment and vaccination planning for COVID-19 vaccines OpenWHO course is intended to help national and sub-national focal points in countries develop the NDVP and prepare for COVID-19 vaccine introduct...
Bonsoir  Je souhaite lancer un appel d'offre pour l'achat de réfrigérateurs spécifiques pour les vaccins ( à compression fonctionant à l'électricité) respectant les normes de l'OMS (PQS) Pouvez vous partager les spécificités techniques que je vais soumettre pour l'appel d'offre ? Je vous rem...
Dear Colleagues, As you may know, WHO is in the midst of establishing an expert panel and working groups to support the development of specifications and data interoperability standards for a digitally-enhanced  Smart Vaccination Certificate to facilitate COVID-19 vaccination plannin...
I tried to obtain new registration for EVM assessment as assessor in extranet.who.int/evm2/web but the portal opens with extranet.who.int/evm2/web/public . It made me difficult to request for assessor. I would like to request for way to reqeust for assess. The country manager could not permit to con...
On December 23, 2020, HLN released a new version (v1.27.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) in support of both the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines, as well as the COVD-19 unspecified vaccine code. ICE is a state-of-the-art open source software system that provides clinical decision sup...
UNDP is seeking experts and senior experts with experience is vaccine supply chains and immunization programs for their roster of procurement and supply chain (PSM) consultants. Based on country demand, the selected consultants are expected to provide consultancy services to support national stakeho...
 Dear all, I am looking for sampling in EVM 2. Please help me know the sampling process , sampling frame ....
December 15, 2020, HLN released a new version (v1.26.2) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) in support of the Pfizer COVID vaccine. ICE is a state-of-the-art open source software system that provides clinical decision support for immunizations for use in Immunization Information Systems (II...
 OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES AND ADOPTION FOR NEW USERS IN ELECTRONIC IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY IMPLEMENTATION - A CASE STUDY FROM VIETNAM -   Immunization staffs have a central role with EIRs as they are the ones who input data into the system that the systems need to function, as well as uti...
Dear colleagues, After COVID-19 vaccines are introduced into countries, it will be vital to generate real-world data on vaccine effectiveness and impact, as many questions will remain unanswered by the clinical trials. Studies will likely be done in a variety of countries, in a variety of population...
Dear colleagues, Do you use the Telegram app on your phone or desktop? TechNet-21 just created 2 Telegram groups, one in English and one in French, where immunization professionals can enjoy the opportunity to chat, connect, learn, share information, etc with colleagues from various fields of immun...
Hi network, I’m looking for some reference documents (papers, studies, guideline, etc.) that demonstrate that the current trend is to have less and less negative cold chain at operational level since it’s only needed for OPV and rota vaccine and since more and more countries avoid the use of frozen...
I wish to add to the very practical and sensible Robin and Rafael discussions on Covid-19. There should be more specific stability data provided for the candidate vaccines. ULT is really a non-reality for logistics in terms of cost and maintenance for LMIC countries for a country wide pandemic (vers...
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