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POST 01201E : ERADICATION EFFORTS
Follow-up on Posts 01174E and 01179E
14 December 2007
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POST 01198E : MNT ELIMINATION 9 December 2007
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The following 13-page article is an interesting and comprehensive review of the issue posted online by the Lancet in September.
"Maternal and neonatal tetanus" by Martha H Roper, Jos H Vandelaer and Franç...
POST 01197E : VACCINE FREEZING 7 December 2007
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If one single topic has often been discussed on the forum, it is vaccine freezing. Many people may still think that this is a problem restricted to developing countries. Not at all! Read the following article f...
POST 01195E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT
Follow-up on Posts 01114E, 01127E, 01138E, 01164E, 01178E, 01186E and 01191E
4 December 2007
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This posting contains two contributions on two different aspects of vaccine stock management.
James Cheyne from PATH sh...
POST 01194E : NEW DOCUMENT
Follow-up on Post 01188E
1st December 2007
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Søren Spanner from UNICEF/India has the following remarks about the Aide-mémoire for prevention of freeze damage to vaccines.
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Thank you for the posting.
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POST 01191E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT
Follow-up on Posts 01114E, 01127E, 01138E, 01164E, 01178E and 01186E
25 November 2007
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[log in to unmask]">Mogens Munck from Spain has some further questions on the WHO Vaccine Stock Management Package.
We...
POST 01188E : NEW DOCUMENT
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Aide-memoire for prevention of freeze damage to vaccines
Cold chain storage is necessary to prevent damage to vaccine due to heat exposure, but keeping vaccines too cold can be just as harmful as keeping them too warm - many vaccine...
POST 01186E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT
Follow-up on Posts 01138E, 01164E and 01178E
13 November 2007
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This posting contains three contributions. The first is from Modibo Dicko from WHO/AFRO who cofirms that different definitions are used in the AFRO reg...
POST 01184E : IMMUNIZATION CAPACITY-BUILDING
10 November 2007
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Readers might be interested in this, published on line as part of the series on poverty and human development this week, in Education for Health.
Strengthening Immunization in a West African...
POST 01183E : BCG AND LEPROSY
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This posting contains two contributions. Devesh Singh from India asks a question about the protective effect of BCG. Thanks to Uli Fruth from WHO/HQ for providing an answer. The Lancet article to which he refers is...
POST 01182E : RETRACTABLE SYRINGE
Follow-up on Posts 01166E and 01171E
5 November 2007
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In response to Vijay Kiran’ contribution, Prabir Chatterjee from India provides the following information. On the same site a would-be interesting link "Disp...
POST 01180E : WASTE MANAGEMENT
2 November 2007
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Two documents are now available on-line on the WHO Healthcare Waste Management website.
"WHO core principles for achieving safe and sustainable management of health care waste".
And the final ...
POST 01179E : ERADICATION EFFORTS
Follow-up on Post 001174E
31 October 2007
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This long contribution is sent by Robert Steinglass from IMMUNIZATIONbasics in the United States.
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"Stop the madness!"
Dear Mo...
POST 01178E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT
Follow-up on Posts 01138E and 01164E
29 October 2007
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This posting has been delayed for some technical questions. It contains three contributions. The first is from Henrique Menezes d’Alva from WHO/Mozambique. The s...
POST 01176E : PIS/PQS 24 October 2007
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Dear all,
WHO PQS secretariat is happy to announce official release of the PQS E10 "safety box for the disposal of used sharps" product specifications and verification protocol which were approved by the PQ...
POST 01175E : VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO VIRUS 22 October 2007
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We wish to draw your attention to the Weekly Epidemiological Report of 28 September 2007 that featured a "Global update on vaccine-derived polioviruses, January 2006 - August 2007"
Si...
POST 01174E : ERADICATION EFFORTS 20 October 2007
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Robert Davis from UNICEF/ESARO proposes the following analysis of eradication efforts. Food for thought and discussion!
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Pro...
POST 01173E : MALARIA VACCINE CANDIDATE 17 October 2007
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Early findings from a malaria vaccine trial among African infants are promising, based on a research article published today Oct 17. In a double-blind trial of 214 infants in Mozambique, the malari...
POST 01171E : RETRACTABLE SYRINGE
Follow-up on Post 01166E
14 October 2007
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[log in to unmask]">Vijay Kiran from India contributes the following comments raising again an important issue of disposal. We have discussed sharps disposal many times...
POST 01167E : PIS/PQS
Follow-up on Post 01040E
5 October 2007
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WHO PQS secretariat is happy to announce the official release of PQS E01 and PQS E03 product specifications and verification protocols which were approved by the PQS steering group on 14 Septe...
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