WHO recently published a new guidance document: “A practical handbook for planning, implementing and strengthening vaccination in the second year of life” (2YL Handbook). The 2YL Handbook provides detail on the practical steps for planning, managing, implementing, and monitoring vaccinati...

Bula from the Fiji IslandsIm situated in an island here in Fiji and have a problem with my GVR 50 DC solar direct drive refrigerator The refrigerator is working, compressor light is on but the problem is the generator is powerless maintaining the cold in the refrigerator. Hope you would help me ide...

Supply Chain Strategic Focus Area Advance the Market Availability of Solar Energy Harvest Control-Equipped Cold Chain Equipment Date of notice: April 1, 2019   Summary: Manufacturers of World Health Organization (WHO) Performance, Quality and Safety (PQS) prequalified solar direct drive (SD...

WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA JOINT STATEMENT   Appropriate Storage and Management of Oxytocin – a Key Commodity for Maternal Health WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA have issued a joint statement regarding the management of oxytocin, a medicine essential to the prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage as wel...

In Bhutan, opened vaccine in Out Reach Clinic (ORC) and leftover vaccines are discarded at the end of the session as we do not have the open vial policy. Only unopened vaccines are brought back and are used in the subsequent immunization session that are also maintained in proper cold chain. But wha...

Dear TechNet members, I'm trying to work out the best place to go on the Internet to find immunization supply chain-related resources such as guidance documents, eLearning videos, etc. This is the list I could come up with. Please can you share others if you know of any. Many thanks.    ...

Dear Forum, We have continued having measles cases around the world despite the child’s immunization status. I have come across cases were a child was immunized but still gets the disease. I know most people will zero down to poor vaccine management practices, wrong immunization technique / practic...

Hi All, If anyone has conducted a comprehensive vaccine wastage assessment, or knows anyone that has done so please send me a message on [email protected]. We are scouting for such expert for a 3 month assignment. Thanks....

Dear all Context: IAPSMCON – 2019: Symposium on Routine Immunization (RI) In this month, symposium was held at the national level on RI, chaired by National Consultants and senior designated persons from Immunization Technical Support Unit [ITSU] for Government of India implementing the programme ...

Dear all Can i get the simple distribution plan format of vaccine and others logistics commodities?  I am thinking of changing the plan of my own country for district level for immunization program strenghtening.  Thank you Anish Shah...

We are pleased to announce the launch of our Cold Chain Equipment (CCE) area. Are you: A current or future WHO PQS-prequalified product user who needs information to use or maintain a specific PQS device? A trainer in need of specific documents for training purpose? Looking for specific inform...

On March 7, 2019, HLN released a new version (v1.16.1) 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 P...

Does anyone know how many countries in the AFRO region are using vaccine outside of the cold chain or using the controlled temperature chain?...

Technet colleagues may be interested in this leader article in today's Times of London regarding the persistent ant-vaccination campaign. Please see this article: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/its-time-to-get-tough-with-anti-vaxxers-gq8prwcrv   Tom Lewis Remonsys Ltd, UK...

There is a need for immunisation programmes to maintain high vaccine coverage, for which digital technology offers an opportunity. mHealth initiatives are largely in place already, and vaccine mobile applications are one of them. Vaccine apps that I am aware of provide the user with very useful info...

Happy to share our paper "Assessing electronic immunization registries: the Pan American Health Organization [PAHO] experience" Full text available at: http://iris.paho.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/50475/v43e282019.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y  Abstract Objective. To develop a...

Dear all technet Members What should we do when the vaccine expiry date only shows the year and month but not the day ? For example: October 2019, can we use this vaccine until the end of October 2019 or do we have to use it before the first of October 2019. Thank Saleban yusuf...

Dear TechNet members, Bhutan is using Tetanus-Diphtheria (Td) during pregnancy. Guidelines provide clear instruction for women who have no record of previous Td vaccination and those who have received 3, 4 and 5 previous doses of Td containing vaccine. However, I could not find how many doses of Td...

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...