Many thanks to Diana Chang Blanc for sharing this information with the readers! The Immunization Summary is an app for visualizing (tables, graphs, maps) data on policies, activities and impact of national immunization systems. The IPAD/IPHONE app can now be downloaded directly from the iTunes ap...

Dear civil society colleagues working in immunisation, GAMR-Action-Lab.pdf In the spring of 2012, GAVI convened an “action lab” process consisting of Secretariat Staff and Alliance partners to look at how to strengthen GAVI’s work at the country level. One of the recommendations of the group...

One of the interventions required in routine immunization is effective regular universal monitoring and evaluation of Routine Immunization (RI) sessions blended with supportive supervision. Often, this is done through NGOs if financial support is available. To enhance capacity building of grassr...

I have attached a PPT on operational guidelines to introduce the newer pentavalent vaccine for further editing/inputs from the viewers. This will give an opportunity to refresh and re-orient the service providers on DPT and hepatitis B also. Operational-guidelines-New-Pentavalent-Vaccine.pdf...

Introduction Raymond Hutubessy is a senior health economist affiliated to the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) Department of the World Health Organization (WHO), and is the executive secretary of the WHO Immunization and Vaccines related Implementation Research Advisory Committee (IVI...

WHO and PATH have jointly updated the popular Temperature Stability of Vaccines slides that were originally produced by Dr. Julie Milstien for the TechNet21 2006 consultation. This updated version includes vaccines that have become available since the original slide set was created. The slides graph...

Sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Partnership with Liquidnet for Good Rewarding Innovation: Each Winner to Receive $100,000 Grant The social sector is full of passion, intuition, deep experience, and unwavering commitment. Increasingly, social change agents from funders t...

The Quarter 4, 2012 issue of the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) Newsletter focuses on a number of promising mobile supply chain interventions, which are quickly becoming a preferred approach to data collection, tracking, and reporting. Mobile systems such as ILSGateway in Ta...

Health supply chains in developing nations may benefit from new models of performance improvement that link rewards with results. By looking at examples of performance-based financing (PBF) in the commercial sector, the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT has outlined four of the essential components for creati...

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by Dan Brigden, PATH In November 2012, the first immunization campaign to use a controlled temperature chain (CTC) took place in Banikoara in northern Benin. This photo set contains photographs taken during the campaign, where over 155,000 people were vaccinated using the CTC approach. Access ...

by Dao Ding Sang and Vu Minh Huong, PATH Over the last three years, Optimize has been working with Vietnam’s National Expanded Programme on Immunization (NEPI) to pilot a new computerized logistics management information system. The new system, named VaxTrak, is designed to help immunization health...

by Osman Mansoor, UNICEF, and Debra Kristensen, PATH As newer vaccines are introduced in low-income countries, immunization programs are facing difficult challenges related to proper storage, transport, tracking, and delivery of vaccines. While some of these challenges are not new, the importance o...

by Modibo Dicko, WHO, and Motomoke Eomba, John Snow, Inc. In November 2012, more than one hundred logisticians and supply-chain experts from 29 countries met in Kigali, Rwanda, for the fifth annual Global Health Supply Chain Summit. The three-day summit provided a forum for participants to share ...

by Raja Rao and Joseph Torres, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation In November last year, 17 different proposals on how to optimize immunization systems were each awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in round nine of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. Below, Raja R...

by Kirsten Mathieson and Lara Brearley, Save the Children One in five children—those from the poorest families, the most remote areas, and marginalized groups—are still denied their right to immunisation and other essential health services. Save the Children’s new report, Immunisation for All: No...

Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) with mobile technology is in practice in Kodagu District of Karnataka. However on scanning the data with immunogram lapses in the programme were detected in December 2012. Present template developed by providing technical assistance, advocacy, staff meeting, j...

by Simona Zipursky, PATH; Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey, WHO/AFRO; Olivier Ronveaux, WHO/AFRO; Sylvestre Tiendrebeogo, Consultant In November 2012, the first immunization campaign to use a controlled temperature chain (CTC) took place in Banikoara in northern Benin. MenAfriVac is a meningitis A vac...

Four new technical briefs from the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT offer guidance on important ways to strengthen malaria supply chains in developing countries. From techniques for stakeholder collaboration to identifying potential causes of commodity leakage, these publications address critical aspects of ...

The usefulness of 'immunogram and its IgM++ Application in 2 session sites in 2 AWCs of Health Sub centers Peraje of Planning unit PHC Sampaje attached to KVG Medical college with one month intervention is attached with an anticipation of scaling up to other subcenters of the same PHC, later other P...