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POST 00707E : LOGISTICS TRAINING
Follow-up on Posts 00689E, 00697E and 00703E
18 August 2004
This posting contains two contributions. The first very short is from Søren
Spanner (mailto:[email protected]) and the second from Jean Bomani (no
@ddress available) from EPI Tanzania, a reply to M...
POST 00706E : ACCIDENTAL NEEDLESTICK
Follow-up on Post 00701E
15 August 2004
Two replies were received following Vladimir's Petrovic's posting (00701E).
The first is from Steve Wiersma (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO who
discusses the issue. The second came from Tina Norgard
(mailto:tnorg...
POST 00705E : GLASS SYRINGES DISPOSAL
Follow-up on Posts 00696E, 00700E and 00704E
12 August 2004
Philippe Jaillard (mailto:[email protected]) from AMP replies to Anthony
Battersby's message (Post 00700E)
Dear Anthony,
Thank you for your answer and sorry to react so lately, I was in the f...
POST 00704E : GLASS SYRINGES DISPOSAL
Follow-up on Posts 00696E and 00700E
8 August 2004
Anil Varshney ([log in to unmask]">mailto:[log in to unmask]) from India proposes a solution for glass syringes disposal.
Here is a simple solution, concerning glass syringes of vaccines but comments ...
POST 00703E : LOGISTICS TRAINING
Follow-up on Posts 00689E and 00697E
5 August 2004
Mogens Munck (mailto:[email protected]) from Spain makes a contribution in
agreement with Modibo Dicko and Robert Steinglass.
I am in total agreement with Modibo and Robert Steinglass! I have had
similar exper...
POST 00701E : ACCIDENTAL NEEDLESTICK 28 July 2004
Vladimir Petrovic (mailto:[email protected]) from Serbia-Montenegro, asks a
question that goes far beyond the scope of secondary prevention in public
health. I will let specialists respond to the question of immediate
Hepatitis B risks in the ci...
POST 00700E : GLASS SYRINGES DISPOSAL
Follow-up on Post 00696E
24 July 2004
Two contributions were received on this topic of glass syringes disposal
following Philippe Jaillard's request (Post 00696E).
The first is from
Chambard-Benalleg (mailto:[email protected])
Solution to thi...
POST 00699E : VACCINATION WITH NO SYRINGE BURNED 21 July 2004
Jorge Emmanuel (mailto:[email protected]) is circulating this
press release concerning syringe disposal without incineration during a
measles follow-up campaign. He is one of the authors of the mentioned
report. For those...
POST 00698E : OPINIONS ON THERMOMETERS 19 July 2004
Hello,
For sharp waste management we have installed 51 incinerators De Monfort in
Senegal. Keeping in line with usage instructions, we suggest that each
operator should be equipped with a thermometer. Our research on internet
has yielded the...
POST 00697E : LOGISTICS TRAINING
Follow-up on Post 00689E
15 July 2004
This discussion started on the topic "From HFC/CFC to HC-based
Refrigeration". It progressed by moving towards logistics training which
was essentially the topic of the previous contribution by Modibo Dicko
(Post 00689E)....
POST 00696E : GLASS SYRINGES DISPOSAL 12 July 2004
In middle-income countries, a number of vaccines are proposed in pre-filled
single-dose glass syringes. Such countries do not always have the
infrastructures and financial means of rich countries, and experience some
of the same problems as de...
POST 00695E : APPROACHES TO ELIMINATING FREEZING : HEALTH WORKERS' VIEWS
Follow-up on Post 00684E and 00693E
9 July 2004
Robert Davis (mailto:[email protected]) from UNICEF/ESARO shares results of
an opinion poll carried among Tanzanian health workers on approaches to
prevent vaccine freezi...
POST 00694E : PIS EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK
Follow-up on Posts 00670E, 00676E and 00688E
5 July 2004
Abdoulaye Djigo (mailto:[email protected]) from Sénégal gives his point of view
on the performance of some refrigerators. The example he gives of a private
fridge highlights, in my opinion, a ...
POST 00693E : APPROACHES TO ELIMINATING FREEZING : A STUDY REPORT
Follow-up on Post 00684E
3 July 2004
Alejo Bejemino (mailto:[email protected]) shares the Afghan experience
in the transport of freeze-sensitive vaccines.
Many thanks for sharing the results of the study and the recommen...
POST 00691E : EXPERIENCE WITH VISITEMP DATALOGGER?
27 June 2004
Alasdair Wylie (mailto:[email protected]) from the UK is
interested to know if anyone has used the new VisiTemp data logger produced
by Remonsys which was introduced at Technet, and if so what experience they
had with i...
POST 00690E : WASTE MANAGEMENT EVALUATION
Follow-up on Posts 00665E and 00675E
25 June 2004
It is true that Health Care Waste should be treated in a global and
integrated manner. However, this requires qualified human resources,
sophisticated techniques, and all that with financial implicatio...
POST 00689E : FROM HFC/CFC TO HC-BASED REFRIGERATION
Follow-up on Posts 00513E, 00634E, 00638E, 00644E, 00648E, 00654E, 00663E
and 00673E
24 June 2004
Modibo Dicko (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO AFRO comes in support of
Abdoulaye Djigo's comments on training needs (POST 00663E) and makes...
POST 00688E : PIS EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK
Follow-up on Posts 00670E and 00676E
21 June 2004
Three further contributions were received on this topic. The first is by
Adelaide Shearley (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO Namibia and the
second translated from French is by Ndiouga D...
POST 00687E : PERSISTANT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS
18 June 2004
Yves Chartier (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO is informing us, as well
as SIGNPost members, that the Stockholm Convention on POPs has become
international law last May 17, launching a global campaign to eliminate 12
hazardous che...
POST 00686E : VACCINE MANAGEMENT ILLUSTRATIONS 14 June 2004
A CD containing the vaccine management training cluster illustrations is
available from WHO HQ.
Those who want a copy should apply to Ms. Christine Husser at WHO
HQ (mailto:[email protected]) with their full name and complete postal ad...
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