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...

Dear Technet 21 Community, We are glad to share the Measles and Measles-Rubella (MR) Vaccine Five-dose vial presentations Facts sheet. This Facts Sheet informs of the availability of Measles vaccine and combined Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccine in both a 10-dose vial and a 5-dose vial presentations th...

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 ...

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...

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...