The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) sets out an array of targets for a world in which all individuals and communities enjoy lives free from vaccine-preventable diseases. As requested by Member States at the World Health Assembly in 2012, an annual review of the progress with the implementation of ...

The meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization took place in Geneva from the 21-23 October 2014. The full SAGE meeting summary is available online at: http://www.who.int/immunization/sage/meetings/2014/october/summary_meeting_oct2014 For more information on SAGE,...

Last week marked the second occasion that a Controlled Temperature Chain (CTC) has been officially used with a vaccine licensed, pre-qualified, and labelled accordingly. Mauritania has just completed a Meningitis A immunization campaign (scheduled from October 14th to the 23rd) using the Meningococ...

Please find at the link below the revised WHO multi-dose vial policy. Please disseminate widely to all EPI staff. Thank you. Veuillez trouver au lien ci-dessous la nouvelle politique de l'OMS en ce qui concerne la manipulation correcte des flacons de vaccin multidoses entamés. Je vous prie de bien ...

The NVAC Global Immunization Supplement is now available online and published in Public Heath Reports (Public Health Reports / 2014 Supplement 3 / Volume 129) http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac/reports/nvac-global-report-supplement.pdf This 90 page report includes a commentary from Margaret Chan (Dire...

New interesting articles from the folks at MIT/Zaragoza Logistics Centre in press for Operations Research for Health Care. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211692314200002# Abstract In the battle for global health, supply chains are often found wanting. Yet most of what is kn...

The budget impact of controlling wastage with smaller vials: A data driven model of session sizes in Bangladesh, India (Uttar Pradesh), Mozambique, and Uganda. W Yang, M Parisi, B Lahue, J Uddin, D Bishai - Vaccine, 2014 Link to full Article. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264...

We are pleased to announce that Gavi will be hosting our next moderated discussion starting Thursday, October 9th. During this conversation Daniel Thornton, the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Gavi, will be sharing the new global immunisation supply chain strategy which Gavi has developed in co...

The results of a study conducted by Epicentre /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) assessing the immunogenicity and safety of a tetanus toxoid vaccine have been recently published in Vaccine.[sup]1 [/sup] The study was conducted in collaboration with the Project Optimize, the Belgian Institute of Public...

The 'Moving Warehouse' (MW) system of vaccine distribution issues vaccine as needed from a mobile stock to a series of stores situated on a pre-planned delivery circuit. MW has proved to be the best of the available choices in countries of three regions, by achieving the following comparative advant...

World Health Organization provides technical support in the form of "Position paper" on all vaccines for guiding the member countries to formulate their own country specific "National Immunization schedule (NIS)" by the central level technical committee on the basis of epidemiolo...

Two solar direct drive ice pack freezers have been successfully tested for seven months in Columbia. The F-1 was manufactured by Sun Frost and a second freezer was produced by Sun Danzer. The freezers were tested by Steve McCarney of SELF and the project was supported by BMGF grant. The tests result...

With the possible exception of disposal, transport is the most neglected aspect of the vaccine supply chain in spite of its reputation for accidental freezing of vaccines, unreliable availability and high operational costs. So, I hope you will join us in discussing work in progress: At the vacc...

Pakistan Vaccine Logistics Management Information System (vLMIS) Release 2 went Live this week: vLMIS release 2 is a single web based integrated platform for reporting Routine Immunization, VSSM, CCEM2 and SDMS software. The portal has below modules with respective dashboards, reports, graphs, an...

Cross-posted from the SIGN newsletter with thanks! The Yves Chartier Award 2014 rewards an NGO, or an actor from civil society, from an African country, who will have elaborated a campaign or achieved an innovative project in the struggle against antimicrobial resistance and climate change, relat...

Dear experts, I have two questions for you. 1/ On most of blistered and non blistered medicine monograph, there is written that medicines should be kept in a cool and dry place. WHO guidance on temperature is well explained. Fine. It is very hard to find anything around humidity. Except that ...

Tool vs. approach: ANMs receive multiple forms/formats/records/registers. Often they have to enter same data multiple times increasing their fatigue and compromising the quality of data and service. Time and again Govt had requested the consultants and development partners to simplify recording and...

PATH is conducting this survey to learn how vaccine carriers are currently used in the vaccine supply chain and whether they are meeting the needs of the health system. We are interested in global trends as well as examples from individual countries. We welcome any comments or feedback. The survey w...

WHO and UNICEF have jointly prepared an information bulletin which addresses varied implications of different types of vaccine vial monitors (VVMs), notably VVM category type 7 (VVM7) and VVM category type 14 (VVM14), on vaccines such as the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) and the fully-liquid Dipht...

We are pleased to inform you that the latest IPAC Meeting Report is now available online through the following link:   http://www.who.int/immunization/programmes_systems/policies_strategies/ipac/en/ The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC) has been supporting and advising the Di...