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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is pleased to introduce our latest publication, Community Monitoring of Individual Children’s Vaccinations: Six Country Experiences. This brief details MCHIP/MCSP experiences with community monitoring of vaccinations in Timor-Leste, India,...

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!...

  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?...

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 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...

Hello, I am brand new to TechNet-21 so this will be my first posting.  I am trying to find an SDD (Solar Direct Drive) freezer which will maintain -10C and below. The product I need to store in Nigeria is surfactant (injected into the lungs of premature babies with collapsed lungs to give the...

So, where are we now? More than a year has passed since the last TechNet-21 meeting! We have a year ahead of us before the next meeting! As time races by, I feel the need to know more about progress that is being made with the many new initiatives that were described by countries and organisations...

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...

Dear TechNet-21 community, Further to the publication of the English and French versions of the Decommissioning and safe disposal of cold chain equipment guidance earlier this year (available here https://bit.ly/2xTLDYa), we are glad to share with you that the Arabic and Russian versions of the doc...

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 ...

A new issue of Vaccine is now available: Rotavirus Surveillance, Safety and Economic Data before Vaccine Introduction: a Global Perspective from the World Health Organization Global Rotavirus Surveillance Network  Edited by Adam L. Cohen, Negar Aliabadi, Fatima Serhan, Jacqueline E. Tate, Patrick Z...

A textbook from lectures we used to give at the “Ciro de Quadros Vaccinology Course for Latin America” just got published by the Sabin Institute: https://www.sabin.org/programs/training-education/vaccinology-book. The book is available in English and Spanish. My chapter on information systems for ...

A new article Expenditures on vaccine-preventable disease surveillance: Analysis and evaluation of comprehensive multi-year plans (cMYPs) for immunization, recently published,  is available here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30236633...