POST 01153E : STOCK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Follow-up on Posts 01138E, 01127E and 01114E 4 September 2007 Dear Technet21 E-Forum, It is very encouraging that UNICEF/WHO have now produced a Vaccine Stock Management tool. At central level and regional levels, where vaccine forecasting is usually don...

POST 01152E : REVISED WHO POSITION PAPER ON ROTAVIRUS VACCINES 2 September 2007 Please note that a revised WHO position paper on rotavirus vaccines has just been published in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record. The paper is available in English and French. It will shortly be translated into A...

POST 01148E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS Follow-up on Posts 01125E, 01133E and 01141E 27 August 2007 This posting contains two contributions discussing domestic refrigerators. The first is from Soren Spanner from UNICEF/India and the second from Olivier Blanchet from Doctors Without Borders in...

POST 01146E : IMF AND HEALTH SPENDING 23 August 2007 It is not so often that we discuss macroeconomics. Those of you interested by these questions may find the following report quite interesting. It is rather long (78 pages) and I admit that I didn’t read it all. The 7-page executive summary giv...

TECHNET21 E-FORUM Technical network for strengthening immunization services Contributions to: [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] or use your reply button! POST 01145E : VACCINE PREVENTABLE MORTALITY Follow-up on Post 01136E 21 August 2007 Please note that an error occurred in Arch...

POST 01142E : PQS DOCUMENTS : DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS 16 August 2007 Dear all, Final drafts of the PQS E10 category performance_ specifications and verification_protocol for safety box for the disposal of used sharps are now available. We would appreciate your comments to finalize the documents. ...

POST 01141E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS Follow-up on Posts 01125E and 01133E 15 August 2007 This posting contains three contributions. The first is from John Lloyd from PATH. Then Dereje Ayalew explains his question further, using a table. Finally Alejo Bejemino from the Philippines, also wit...

POST 01139E : QUESTIONS ON OPV Follow-up on Post 01128E 12 August 2007 This posting contains two contributions in response to André Yaméogo's question. The first comes from Steven_Wassilak of the CDC, and the second is a joint contribution by Hans_Everts and Benjamin_ Nkowane from the Polio Era...

POST 01138E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT 11 August 2007 Vaccine_stock_management:_Guidelines_on_stock_records_for_immunization_programme_and_vaccine_store_managers_(WHO/IVB/06.12) WHO recently published a new document on vaccine stock management. The document was prepared and written by Dr. Ahme...

POST 01137E : CERVICAL CANCER PREVENTION 9 August 2007 The following new materials especially on cervical cancer prevention and HPV vaccine are sent to you by : Scott_Wittet, Advocacy and Communication, Cervical Cancer Vaccine Project, PATH This message is sent in the "forward" mode to preserve...

POST 01136E : VACCINE-PREVENTABLE MORTALITY 7 August 2007 Colleagues, I think this new pie graph from UNICEF/GAVI will be of interest. It shows that 25% of under-5 mortality is still vaccine-preventable. I believe that this pie chart is an improvement over the very familiar pie graph that emer...

POST 01135E : SCIENCE FICTION ?? 5 August 2007 For most of us if not all, computers, softwares and the Internet are such an integral part of our life that we even don't think about this any further. Despite important progress, large areas of the world are nevertheless still excluded. That's why t...

POST 01132E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS Follow-up on Post 01125E 3 August 2007 This posting contains two contributions. The first is from Kaushik_B anerjee from WHO/HQ, and the second from Ian_Tansley from the United Kingdom. This last will likely provoke some reactions. Many if not a majorit...

POST 01131E : TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICES - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Follow-up on Post 01123E 30 July 2007 In response to Idrissa Yalcouyé’s request, [log in to unmask]">Terry [log in to unmask]">Hart from India points out that he made presentations at two separate meetings during the l...

POST 01128E : QUESTIONS ON OPV 26 July 2007 Hello all, For some time now, I have been looking for documentation on monovalent and trivalent OPV. I would like to know if there is a competition between the two types, on administration at a couple-of-days interval. Because of the predominance of ci...

POST 01127E : STOCK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Follow-up on Post 01114E 24 July 2007 The following message is from Mogens Munck, from Spain whose name was quoted in the previous posting on this topic. A few members reported problems in downloading mSupply. Links are functional but communication goes t...

POST 01125E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS 19 July 2007 The following message and questions are from [log in to unmask]">Dereje [log in to unmask]">Ayalew from Ethiopia. Dear all While I discussed with my friend we realized that there is no compression type refrigerator on the PIS which...

POST 01124E : IMPROVED MENINGITIS VACCINE Follow-up on Post 01104E 18 July 2007 In Post 01104E we informed you that an "Improved Meningitis Vaccine for Africa Could Signal Eventual End to Deadly Scourge". Robert Davis and Evelyn Chege from UNICEF/ESARO have circulated since a series of background a...

POST 01123E : TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICES - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 17 July 2007 [log in to unmask]">Idrissa [log in to unmask]">Yalcouye has the following request and we would appreciate that you reply to him directly Hello, For EPI Haïti we are looking for information leading to t...

POST 01122E : VACCINATION ISSUES 15 July 2007 Two articles recently published in the WHO Bulletin (June 2007 issue) will likely interest you if you haven’t seen them already. Our thanks to [log in to unmask]">Andrei [log in to unmask]">Muchnik and [log in to unmask]">Diana Chang[log in t...