Dear TechNet colleagues, JSI in collaboration with SNTL Publishing and with support from Gavi the Vaccine Alliance are pleased to introduce to you Gaming Week! During the week of February 18th 2019, you will get a chance to play a System Design Game for Immunization Supply Chains which is based on ...

Article above by Minal K Patel and Walter A Oreinstein - available here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30492-3/fulltext Summary Background Despite improvements in reported coverage of measles-containing vaccine (MCV) and progress towards elimination of measles,...

Dear Technet 21 Community, We are pleased to share the WHO-UNICEF Joint Statement on promoting the exclusive use of injection safety devices for all immunization activities. Please find the link : https://www.technet-21.org/en/?option=com_sobipro&sid=5051&pid=57&Itemid=2586 On be...

One month ago, the LANCET (ScienceDirectRef: “Expanding safe waste management to public health systems” https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32622-9), January 2019, Elsevier Ltd.) published a letter to the editor (see also attached). The letter points to the failure to sustain or expand immunizatio...

On February 1, 2019, HLN Consulting released a new version (v1.15.1) 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 Reco...

Sharing a summary table with important core EPI material with links and sorted by topic. Please note that this is for information only, and not an official WHO document....

  A child had a 1st dose of Pentavalent vaccine at 6 weeks, a 2nd dose at 18 Weeks and a 3rd dose at 30 weeks. Is this a valid or invalid dose?...

I was recently looking at a sample print out of a 30 day data logger. The high temperature alarm went off 4 times in a 30 day period. Having this information what does the health worker typically do with the vaccines? Some possibilities are: - Throw away the vaccines. - Ignore the alarms and use the...

Dear colleagues, Does anybody have any information about Cholera Vaccine availability? Especially around Asia/South East Asia? Anybody have any information why we have cholera vaccine shortage of supply now?   Thanks for your help!...

Dear Colleagues, You are invited to contribute to a new discussion on 'When should Ministries of Health use refrigerated vehicle to deliver vaccines?'. Discussion co-moderated by James Cheyne and John Lloyd: There are at least four good reasons for using refrigerated vehicles to replace the class...

Dear colleagues, I am looking for a template of cold chain equipment repair & maintenance record, a template of CCE spare parts record etc which can be used as specimen in training materials on CCE repair and maintenance in the immunization programme. Links, reference documents etc will be highly a...

We have recently used the WHO Immunization Session Checklist (Figure 5.11 in the 2015 edition of Immunization in Practice) as part of a set of observational research tools looking at routine immunization practices in Papua New Guinea. We are looking for benchmarks on compliance with the checklist a...

Hi folks, This is Johnson Kisanga from CHAI. Many thanks to the team who prepares this handbook as it is very helpful. My question goes back to you, do you ever think of having a regrigerator service Tag, like a maintenance card that will be used store historics maintenance that has happened to a ce...

Hi everyone,  Is any short training on Immunization data management available in 2019? Please let me know. I am interested to participate.  Thank you and best regards.  Chadralal...

Recent reports [1] of counterfeit yellow fever vaccination certificates in Zambia follow reports of falsified proof of vaccination documents being used in other countries, including Ethiopia [2], India [3], Nigeria [4], Pakistan [5], Sudan [6], Uganda [7], Tanzania [8] and Zimbabwe [9]. While the Wo...

Dear colleagues, I am working on a new book project on VVM. I would like to include examples of the following and shall be grateful if you could kindly contact me. Your help is much appreciated! If you have any of the following, besides sending the material, I'd appreciate it if you could kindly ...

New materials are available on the "Coverage Surveys" page of TechNet-21 (https://www.technet-21.org/en/topics/vaccination-coverage-surveys) on the "17 Steps to do a Coverage Survey". This collection contains a series of documents & presentations outlining the basic steps of a vaccination coverage ...

Dear viewers, A merry Christmas and a Happy new year 2019! On Christmas Eve of 2012, we shared the first write up on Immunogram as “Xmas gift”. Today, 6 years later, we wish to share it again because it can potentially achieve and sustain ≥90% Full Immunization Coverage (FIC) below one year and bo...

The BID Initiative is featured in the most recent issue (December 2018) of the MMS Bulletin #148 "Digital Health - A Blessing or Curse for Global Health." "Marrying engineering with health policy to bring digital health to scale," by Steven C. Uggowitzer, Sima C. Newell, Dykki Settle, A...

Hi TechNeters! It was brought to my attention by one of you that USC researchers have developed a new polio vaccine that doesn't require refrigeration. Check out here: https://news.usc.edu/151694/polio-vaccine-breakthrough-brings-researchers-closer-to-eliminating-disease-worldwide/ "By removing m...