Dear all Routine Immunization programme is rapidly expanding in the country, more and more vaccines are included in the National Immunization Schedule [NIS] in phased manner. Rota Virus Vaccine is being introduced in Karnataka. As customary, in Dakshinakannada district, training programmes were hel...

Dear all During the routine visits to Medical Colleges, opportunistic proactive supportive supervision was provided which helps in updating the practices on the spot to keep pace with the current schedule. It also gives an opportunity to share the successful interventions through on the spot recti...

We are happy to announce the latest version of the Total Cost of Ownership tool for cold chain equipment (v1.7) is now available to download and use. If you have been using an earlier version of the tool, please download the latest version from the *new* link below.   Versi...

Dear friends, Greetings from National Cold Chain Resource Centre,India!!!!!!! Would like to introduce NCCRC in brief. It is joint initiative of GoMH, MoHFW - GoI & UNICEF and with its technical mandate in support of immunization programme,largely instrumental in developing skills of Cold ...

Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur ce point et sur d’autres aspects importants des enquêtes sur la couverture vaccinale post-campagne (ECV post-campagne), nous vous invitons à visionner les diapositives et à visionner l’enregistrement vidéo du webinaire qui s’est déroulé le 15 juillet 2019 ici.&nb...

Nigeria EX-Scholars on the way to creating lasting impact WHO Scholar program a learning approach to bring sharing new innovations and intervention guideline to improving immunization system all over the globe has been widely received by Nigerians and other scholars in different countries across th...

L’événement: Enquêtes de couverture vaccinale post-campagne (après une ASV) Lundi 15 juillet 2019 à 16 heures de Genève (vérifier l'heure) Lien d’inscription | Webinar ID: 146-979-176 Une ASV est toute activité vaccinale conduite en plus des services de vaccinatio...

Dear all Vaccination records from private vaccination service providers give us very good opportunities to passively monitor the quality of the service in terms of timeliness and completeness. Monitoring observations are shared with the specific service provider, corresponding government planning u...

My name is Abdullahi Umar an Immunization Information System and coverage specialist, working with African Field Epidemiology Network deployed to Borno State, Nigeria with the main purpose of supporting the state on the Implementation of DHIS2....

Dear viewers KVG team wishes to share the "mini" successful story of one page with photos for information. Cross learning visit to an established "Demo-Site", practicing the acquired operational knowledge in the home institution on returning, retro visit for further fine tuning is one of the simpl...

Dear TechNet-21 community, As most of you know, countries are focusing on the cold chain expansion, but disposal of old & obsolete cold chain equipment are also one of the identified gaps. Due to this fact we are planning to work on it, could you share with us country experience or gu...

The recently published topic page on dose per container (DPC) provides a range of useful resources from case studies to decision support documents to better understand the effects of DPC on six immunization system components; namely operational costs, timely coverage, safety, wastage, and polic...

EHC is a valuable method of obtaining excess energy from an SDD refrigerator, however an autonomous solar direct system powering USB ports is a simpler, more reliable and less expensive method of providing auxiliary power. USB ports can be powered directly from a solar panel, no batteries are requi...

Dear viewers   Learning is a continuous prosess, attached is one such example applicable for the entire country with ~28000 planning units; presenting the attachment as an evidence for continuous learning.   With best wishes  Holla n Team  ...

What is a typical frequency of outreach operations for EPI vaccinations? Monthly, quarterly, every six months, annually? Are there any prescribed standards for this? On a related note, are outreach operations typically scheduled at the same locations or do they shift these from place to place? Thank...

What are the vaccines that could be given to children who have missed their immunization as scheduled? Some children come at 1 year, 2 years and even at 3 years of age without receiving any vaccine or only a few of them. I would like to know what vaccines could be given at various ages for children ...

On May 31, 2019, HLN released a new version (v1.17.1) 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 Pe...

We are pleased to announce the launch of the topic page for Missed Opportunities for Vaccination (MOV) on TechNet: https://www.technet-21.org/en/topics/mov The MOV topics page includes tables with information about: • MOV publications• MOV training material • Interventions to reduce MOV by address...

Dear All, So pleased to share the great news that yesterday, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines and other health products in an effort to expand access. The draft resolution is on the WHA website: http://apps.who.int/gb/e/...

Dear TechNet-21 Community, Following the WHO PQS statement on the Vestfrost investigation, please find attached guidance on the management of the equipment and vaccines. Thank you. Michelle Seidel Immunization Supply Chain, Programme Division Office: +45 45 33 56 12, Mobile : +45 30 78 ...