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Keeping vaccines safe requires more than deploying cold chain equipment. It also requires reliable systems to monitor performance, track temperature data, manage maintenance activities, and support timely decision-making.
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Sharing a video summarizing the first Regional Health Campaign Integration Workshop, held in Kigali, Rwanda, in June 2026.
The workshop brought together health leaders and partners to strengthen the coordination, integration and delivery of health campaigns across the African Region. P...
Some guidelines state that a walk-in cooler that stores vaccines can hold its temperature for 3 to 4 hours without being opened during a power failure.
However, what is the actual holdover time, especially in the summer season?...
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We are pleased to share that the upgraded version of the Immunization Forecasting and Supply Planning Toolbox webpage has been released on TechNet: https://www.technet-21.org/en/immunization-forecasting-and-supply-planning-toolbox
Originally launched by UNICEF in collaboration wit...
Pour renforcer la surveillance et la maintenance des équipements de la chaîne du froid, le ministère sénégalais de la Santé, avec le soutien de PATH, a développé le CCE/EPI Tracker, une solution numérique intégrée à DHIS2.
Rejoignez ce webinaire pour découvrir comment l'outil permet la surveillance...
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Join this TechNet webinar in partnership with UNICEF to hear country experiences with the WHO PQS-prequalified Emvolio (Blackfrog) transportable powered vaccine storage (TPVS) solution.
Speakers from Kenya, India, Tanzania, and other deployment setti...
Vaccines like BCG and Measles must be kept between + 2°C to +8°C. Is there any risk if these vaccines were placed on the bottom shelf of combo/combination refrigerator, where the temperature may drop below sub-zero? In the past these freeze dried vaccine were stored in minus temperature....
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its first Global Youth Competition on Influenza and COVID-19 Prevention and Control, inviting young people aged 18–35 years to submit creative videos on how to protect themselves and their loved ones from influenza and/or COVID-19....
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I am pleased to share a new preprint examining how health-zone-specific transmission may shape the potential impact of ring vaccination during the 2026 Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The analysis found that health zones with the same ope...
Countries across sub-Saharan Africa continue to make progress toward improving routine immunization (RI) coverage, yet significant operational challenges remain in delivering potent vaccines to underserved and hard-to-reach populations. Outreach immunization activities are routinely conducted in env...
How many single-dose IPV vials and 5-dose of measles vaccine vials can be stored in a net one litre space in a combo refrigerator?...
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I want to share with you the experience about packaging vaccines that require to be between -50ºC and -15ºC to maximize the shelf life given by the lab.We prepared a 40% solution of Mono Ethylene Glycol with water inside HDPE bottle (icepacks), freezing at -50ºC for 2 days at least, then ...
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I have read in the Global Immunization Newsletter - July 2026 a special feature with the title Digital tools and WUENIC: strengthening immunization data for better decision-making, leading to the TechNet page https://www.technet-21.org/en/community/blogs-n...
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I am pleased to share a brief analysis of Cameroon’s 2025 WUENIC results. The report highlights encouraging gains in core infant vaccination, alongside major concerns around declining HPV coverage, the absence of a national timely hepatitis B birth-dose estimate, and emergi...
Dear TechNet colleagues, I am pleased to share my brief analysis of the newly released 2025 WHO–UNICEF Estimates of National Immunization Coverage.The report looks beyond global averages to highlight persistent zero-dose inequities, the challenges facing fragile and conflict-affected settings, ...
Which method is best to do the Sero surveillance to see the population immunity: either Conventional Ig assay or the using Magnetic beads assay?...
What works in immunization: Results-driven approaches in resource-constrained settings
Insights from the Routine Immunization Strengthening Program (RISP) Learning Consortium
Wednesday 15 July 2026
9:00 EDT/13:00 GMT/16:00 EAT/21:00 PKT
Register: https://tinyurl.com/RISP-webinar
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The Gavi 6.0 immunisation supply chain (iSC) strategy marks a shift toward more country-led, system-wide strengthening, focusing on the most critical bottlenecks and long-term sustainability. It promotes coordinated improvements across the full delivery system, from data and planning to workforce, i...
I would like to share some materials that the Ministry of Health, Lao PDR used for program review of home-based record for MNCH in Lao PDR. The program review was conducted applying methodology and tools provided in Strengthening implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn and ch...
The 2025 WHO and UNICEF Estimates of National Immunization Coverage (WUENIC) will be officially released on 15 July 2026.
WHO and UNICEF, with the support of TechNet, are pleased to inform you that we will hold a public webinar on the same day to present and discuss the key finding...
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines/special_issues/ZG34DD5E2B
Message from the Guest Editors (U. of Southampton, UK)
This Special Issue focuses on the role of geospatial analysis, artificial intelligence, and mathematical modelling in childhood vaccination strategies within lowand middle-income ...
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