Dear Colleagues, The new People that Deliver Newsflash No.12 is now available! In this issue: - Update on the 2nd PtD Global Conference - Public Health Supply Chain Competency Mapping in Namibia - The 7 habits of effective supply chain professionals - Results of the PtD Board elect...

As many of you know, the supply chain strategy developed by WHO, UNICEF, Gates Foundation and GAVI was approved by the GAVI Board in June of this year, and we are beginning to work on implementation planning and communication. At this point, I know the community has more questions than we yet have a...

MCHIP is USAID's flagship program accelerating progress towards achieving MDGs 4 & 5. Since 2008, MCHIP has worked in more than 50 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to improve the health of women and their families. MCHIP has supported programming across the spect...

A new policy paper on the vaccine supply chain, "System Design: Repair or Replace," has recently been released. It's attached and can also be found here: http://villagereach.org/vrsite/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/villagereach-system-design_repair-or-replace.pdf. This paper considers the broader conce...

In case the TechNet community is interested. Global vaccine supply. The increasing role of manufacturers from middle income countries [color=#00bb44]DP Francis, YP Du, AR Precioso - Vaccine, 2014[/color] A design methodology for the economic design of vaccine warehouses in the developing worl...

Dear TechNet Community   Since the endorsement of the decade-long Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) by the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2012, the WHO Secretariat is mandated to produce and disseminate each year an annual report that analyses progress towards achieving the various GVAP goals and ...

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin The goal of the IAPHL e-mentoring program is to provide its members with opportunities to develop a partnership through which the mentor shares knowledge, skills, information and perspective to nurture ...

"Cleanliness is godliness". In implementing routine immunization programme, achieving timeliness/timely completeness is Godliness. By vaccinating close to the schedule through regular outreach sessions at monthly intervals, tracking vaccination status through simple paper documentation ce...

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to update you on the details regarding the 2nd People that Deliver Global Conference on “Human Resources in Supply Chain Management” to be held at UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark on 27-30 October 2014. Under the theme of 'People Must Deliver: Workforce excellenc...

The Measles & Rubella Initiative is a global partnership committed to ensuring no child dies from measles or is born with congenital rubella syndrome. This updated fact sheet provides at a glance information about the importance of eliminating measles and rubella globally. The illustrations by artis...

Cross-posted from the global.knowledge-gateway.org with thanks! Dear Friends, Could you please share this easy-to-digest message out to the West African public through your various means? It is very well done and provides people with the information they require to stop the spread of Ebola. An...

Time to rethink cold rooms. Inspired by johns rethinking. A lot has happened since the first vaccine cold rooms were installed. There is much better access to refrigeration technicians. Butchers and many others are using cold rooms, if something goes wrong it is being repaired. There is some kin...

I'm a student with the University of Washington. We are trying to develop and improve upon cost models for the cold chain. We know that for grid electricity, kerosene and gas we can multiply country energy prices by consumption. Has anyone attempted to model what the cost would be if the refrigerato...

A couple of months ago, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) produced a package of materials in support of their call for wider use of existing vaccines in the “controlled temperature chain” or CTC. An issue brief, Vaccinating Children Beyond the Cold Chain, is available in English and French. It is a...

I want to bring your attention to a new supply chain management resource: the Promising Practices in Supply Chain Management series. The series was commissioned by the Supply and Awareness Technical Reference Team (TRT) of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women’s and Chil...

In the middle of this month (July 14), Kodagu district of Karnataka in its routine RI training of HCWs, introduced the "Extended Immunogram" to promote newborn vaccination. As was rightly expressed in the 67th WHA held in May 2014, promoting Hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine is a global chall...

I am writing to the group in hopes to receive some insight into EVM Assessments. Are countries require to post their results online? Is there are repository of this results somewhere? Thank you for your help, -- Sincerely, Tatiana Viecco University of Cambridge Student Sidney Sussex Col...

The People that Deliver Newsflash No. 11 is now available. Please see attached. You can also access the full Newsflash on our website at http://www.peoplethatdeliver.org . Regards, Andrew N BROWN, BPharm PhD Executive Manager – People that Deliver UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhage...

Interventions promoting hepatitis B birth dose in the Rural Medical College completed one quarter. With simple measures and zero budget, the coverage was raised from 19.14% in April to 91.89% by 30th June 2014. In these three months, timely newborn vaccination has become a part of newborn care proto...

Call for abstracts 2nd PtD Human Resources for Supply Chain Management Conference Copenhagen Denmark 28-30 October 2014 Background: The People that Deliver (PtD) Initiative is a broad global coalition of organizations that strives to improve the health supply chain workforce in developing ...