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Update on Maternal Neonatal Tetanus Elimination: October 2010
UPDATE ON MATERNAL NEONATAL TETANUS ELIMINATION AS OF OCTOBER 2010
WHO/CHERG estimates for causes of child mortality show that Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) was responsible for 59,000 neonatal deaths in 2008.Though the figure shows a 92% reduction in mortality from the 800,000 deaths estima...
Vaccine video by Penn & Teller
James Cheyne shares with us a film on immunnization. It comes with a cautionary note that the video contains language that some may find offensive. Another weapon in our armoury against immunization naysayers!
Please use the following link to see the film, which has been uploaded on YouTube:
http:...
Empty polio vaccine vials in stool carriers--effective monitor of reverse cold chain?
I have one suggestion on a different topic for which I need comments from experts.
In Polio Eradication programs, the Non-Polio Entero virus rates in the stool specimens is taken as a proxy indicator of adequate stools and effective reverse cold chain. This indicator becomes all the more important ...
MDG 4: Delivering on the Promise of Immunization
Cross posted from http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog with many thanks.
MDG 4: Delivering on the Promise of Immunization
09/14/2010
Rebecca Fields and Robert Steinglass: Make vaccination a reality for all children (image:http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/delive...
Are you working on immunization or logistics project??
Under the auspices of the UNICEF-led Cold Chain and Logistics Task Force (http://www.unicef.org/immunization/index_42071.html), with a temporary secretariat housed at Project Optimize (http://www.who.int/immunization_delivery/systems_policy/optimize/en/index.html), a group of partners and stakeholde...
New committee to advise the World Health Organization on immunization practices
New committee to advise the World Health Organization on immunization practices
by Shelley Deeks, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion and IPAC Chairperson, and Rudi Eggers, WHO/IVB
In late June, Dr. Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Director of Immunization, Vaccinations and Biologicals (IVB) a...
The first global training on effective vaccine management
The first global training on effective vaccine management by Hailu Makonnen Kenea, Souleymane Kone, and Modibo Dicko from WHO; and Andrew Garnett, consultant.
On July 29, 2010, after ten days of intensive and interactive training, 29 global, regional, country, and independent cold chain and log...
China considers VVMs
China considers VVMs
by Qiyou Xiao, China National Biotec Group; Shuyan Zuo, WHO China; and Jack Zhang, PATH China
In June, the first national seminar and information session about the necessity and feasibility of using vaccine vial monitors (VVMs) on domestically produced vaccines used in China w...
Using mobile phones to track immunizations
Using mobile phones to track immunizations by Jørn Ivar Klungsøyr on behalf of http://www.openXdata.org (http://www.openXdata.org) and Jan Grevendonk, PATH In August 2010, the Norwegian Research Council approved funding for a new project that will allow countries to manage immunization programs wit...
The Unfinished Business of Immunization
James Cheyne shares with us the jointly produced (IFRC/GAVI Alliance) advocacy report on immunization, entitled "Unfinished business". The report was pre-released at the UN Palais in Geneva earlier this month and will be more formally launched at the forthcoming MDG Summit.
The press re...
Global Health eLearning Center: Online Self-Instructional Materials
Dear Mr. James,
Good day and thanks for this information. It is a welcome idea.
Kind regards
Pearl...
Health eLearning Center: Online Self-Instructional Materials
Global Health eLearning Center: New Homepage and Certificate Programs For TechNet21 readers who do not receive Bob Davis's regular and informative Child Survival Updates, we suggest you look into the following:
We are excited to announce that the USAID Global Health eLearning Center (http://www.glo...
Pakistan floods: H1N1 vaccination--urgent questions
As regards prophylaxis you can address only specific group. How long are you going to use the prophylaxis? These are the issues to be addressed and I appreciate your concern.
Regards,
Nagaraj...
Pakistan floods: H1N1 vaccination--urgent questions
I need an urgent reply on the following questions regarding H1N1 pandemic from the experts:
Pakistan is faced with worst floods in its history. Can we start H1N1 vaccination among the affectees specially those in the camps? If yes which groups to target? We have enough doses of TEMIFLU in our stock...
Temperature Monitoring Study To Commence in Vietnam and Uganda
Temperature Monitoring Study To Commence in Vietnam and Uganda
by Joanie Robertson, Huong Vu and James Cheyne, PATH
While some vaccines will lose their potency if they are stored at temperatures above or below the standard 2° to 8°C, many vaccines are quite heat stable and can tolerate temperatures...
Economic comparison of cold chain storage and transportation assets
Hi,
I am working with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and we started looking at ways to help a few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to increase speed and efficiency in introducing the new rota and/or pneumo vaccines. It is fairly clear that the cold chain capacity needs to be upgraded due to th...
Improving the affordability of inactivated poliovirus vaccines (IPV) for use in low- and middle-income countries
Many thanks to Emily Griswold, PATH, for sharing this document with TechNet21 readers.
PATH and Working in Tandem, Ltd., recently released a report entitled “Improving the affordability of inactivated poliovirus vaccines (IPV) for use in low- and middle-income countries: an economic analysis of ...
Vaccine wastage rates
As a part of study aimed towards assessing the magnitude and key drivers of vaccine wastage rate, the general understanding is that wastage rates are typically higher for multi-dose vial vaccines in comparison to single dose vial vaccines. Also, while key drivers of wastage such as expiry, freezing,...
Technical and commercial feasibility of stabilizing vaccines: PATH study
Dear Colleagues,
PATH is pleased to share with you key findings on the technical and commercial feasibility of stabilizing vaccines. These findings are outlined in a recent guest editorial published in the journal Human Vaccines.
In the editorial, PATH's Debra Kristensen, group leader of Vaccin...
Technical and commercial feasibility of stabilizing vaccines: PATH study
Thanks Julian. It really helped. I stress so much on anti freezing the H1N1 vaccine during my country wide lectures that I needed to be sure of my claims.
Frankly it would have been better for a H1N1 vccine without VVM to be freeze resistant, as opertaionally it is much easier for vaccinators in ...