Cold chain and logistics taskforce focuses on interagency cooperationby Osman David Mansoor, UNICEF Programme Division, and Ibrahim El-Ziq, UNICEF Supply Division In November 2009, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosted a workshop of the Cold Chain and Logistics (CCL) Taskforce. The pur...

Tunisia to demonstrate innovative supply chain solutions for the futureby Patrick Lydon and Ibrahim Abdel Rahim, WHO A new era of immunization supply systems officially got under way on Friday, January 22, 2010, in Tunis, when the Ministry of Public Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), and ...

Partners begin effort to envision future supply chain systemsby Brent Burkholder, CDC, and Ibrahim El-Ziq, UNICEF Supply Division In November 2009 at the GAVI Alliance Partners Forum in Hanoi, a group of 43 participants sat down to discuss their vision for future supply chain systems for health. Th...

http://www.timesche nnai.com/ index.php? mod=article&cat=General&article=47839 Now vaccines can be stored at room temperature 02.18.2010 (GMT+5.5) London: For the first time scientists at Oxford University have found a way of keeping vaccines stable without refrigeration, even at tropica...

Dear Sir, The following report on health worker retention for better health indices is very important as in many states the health indices are unachievable due to shortage of staff at the village level. http://www.who.int/hrh/events/report_second_full_expert_meeting.pdf I have also co...

Africa Routine Immunization System Essentials (ARISE) Project [[email protected]][email protected][/email] The ARISE project is a two-year learning initiative, managed by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. JSI is partnering wi...

A few more of the HCWM presentations that were made at the annual meeting of the Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN), which was held from 30 November to 2 December 2009. Thanks once again to Selma Khamassi for sharing them with the forum. Non-Incineration Medical Waste Treatment Pilot Project at Ba...

The annual meeting of the Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN) was held from 30 November to 2 December 2009. The following are some of the presentations on Healthcare Waste Management. Many thanks to Selma Khamassi for sending these to me to be shared with TechNet21 readers. HCWM--10 Years: Yves Cha...

Robert Chen sends in this request. For a study assessing injection site abscesses in a developing country, photos are needed for the training material. The challenge is that injection site abscesses are uncommon in developed world where cameras are common and more common in less developed settings...

Thank you Nahad Sadr-Azodi for sharing this information with TechNet21 readers. The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, in cooperation with United Nations Children’s Fund, is launching the inaugural Vaccination Week in the Eastern Mediterranean Region init...

Many thanks to Tasnim Partapuri for sharing this information from the The Communication Initiative website. Every year since 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) has dedicated one week in April to raising awareness about the importance of immunization as a public health strategy in Europe....

Vaccine Wastage Assessment, India By Ranjit Dhiman / Satish Kumar Gupta- UNICEF India In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Government of India, UNICEF with WHO and partners carried out a vaccine wastage assessment in India. The aim of the study was to understand current vaccine wastage at v...

Since 1994, with USAID funding, JSI has conducted international courses on supply chain management of health commodities. These training activities have been a pivotal part of the supply chain support USAID has funded through the USAID/DELIVER PROJECT and the DELIVER and FPLM projects before that. A...

Dear Moderator, I'd be grateful to know if any of your readers have experience with use of cell phones for transmission of cold chain stock position data from the district level upwards. Kenya has started doing this, using purpose developed software. Best rgds, Bob Davis (email: [email=robert.davi...

It's really a great step in using mobile phones for the welfare of public health. I am looking anxiously to know more about it. Please keep on posting more about this. This is really a great job....

Dear all, Do you have information as to which countries, especially among European countries, require written consent for vaccinating against pandemic flu? I was asked by the ministry to try to find out what the policy in other countries is. In Croatia, the ministry asked vaccination providers to ...

Many thanks to Diana Chang Blanc for sharing this with TechNet21 readers. Good day to you all, We are pleased to announce the “Overview Course in Supply Chain Management of Health Commodities", a new training designed to increase professionals of the health sector’s understanding of logistics ...

Rabies has been one of the most dreaded diseases, often leading to painful death in human beings. Globally, around 55,000 people die of Rabies and, of them, 20,000 die in India alone. The animal bite incidence rate is 17.4/1000 that is 17.4 million bites every year in India. The frequency of animal ...

Dear all, I have a question on multi-dose vial policy for adjuvanted pandemic vaccines. We received Focetria, MF59C.1 adjuvanted vaccine in 10-dose presentations which contains thimerosal as a preservative. Can WHO multi-dose vial policy be applied to this vaccine (to use it four weeks after the...

The Lagos State Waste Management Authority organised their fourth Medical Waste Summit, which was held on 26 and 27 October, 2009 at the National Arts Theatre Iganmu, Lagos with the theme “Safe Management of Healthcare Waste: The Time is Now”. This short report on the proceedings has been shared wit...