This educational and compelling video conveys the importance of young people receiving the meningococcal meningitis vaccine before going to college. Since adolescents ages 16 to 21 have the highest rates of meningococcal meningitis, the video tells the story of two college students: Jamie Schanbaum,...

Till now, many countries were using relatively cheap vaccines for their EPI program and therefore the issue of vaccine wastage was not given much importance as the focus was on reaching maximum number of beneficiaries. But now given the fact that many countries have now introduced or are in the proc...

We have a very interesting post from Robert Steinglass from JSI on a subject rarely discussed on the forum. Thank you! To address vaccine “hesitancy,” frame the question broadly says Robert Steinglass There has been much legitimate discussion in the past 6 months about a growing problem of v...

With many thanks to John Lloyd for this post. Countries that currently use absorption refrigeration (gas, electric or kerosene-powered) are facing increasing pressure to switch to solar photovoltaic-powered refrigeration for vaccine as manufacture of absorption equipment shrinks. We have a substa...

Tanzania is among the 11 Sub-Saharan (SSA) countries that have recorded significant progress in reducing child mortality through several interventions including immunization services. Sustaining this immunization gains (and the overall reduction of infant mortality) is a major challenge. A critical ...

Vac-4-All and MRTC Launch multi-centre Malaria Vaccine Efficacy Trial in Mali Vac-4-All, a new vaccine development initiative, and the Malaria Research and Training Centre (MRTC), a public research and training facility of the University of Bamako in the Republic of Mali, have completed ...

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Hi all! I'm looking into what health workers/users and health programs like to see in a vaccine carrier and/or what specifications they wish vaccine carriers had. In particular, what are you looking for in a vaccine carrier that is used for outreach activities to remote or hard-to-reach areas f...

Cool Containers, a new company based in Marietta, OH has developed an innovative, active shipping container called the PharmaPort 360. This first product has been designed for pallet-sized shipments of vaccines and other temperature sensitive products by ground and is FAA approved for air transport...

Dear Friends, Sharing with you the PPT by Katie Hampson for comments, that was telecasted world over in a webinar by World Rabies Day....

The topic relates to Advance Market Commitments for whose benefit, the Pharma or the beneficiaries? The issue of Advance Market Commitments need urgent attention as this hs aquired a dangerous trend in industry. Advance Market Commitments is only benefitting pharma companies as there is only all ben...

PATH is investigating the potential of low-cost, post-market modifications to improve the performance of domestic refrigerators for vaccine storage, as an intermediate step to procurement of a WHO PQS pre-qualified vaccine refrigerator. We would like to learn more about the use of domestic vacci...

PQS Data I was recently trying to compare PQS data for direct drive refrigerators. Data for two parameters of prime importance are not always given: - Solar radiation reference period - Power consumption: Stable Running Data is also usually given for 43 deg C and sometimes for 32 deg C. D...

Questionnaire Regarding Measles Vaccine Vial Presentation Would a 5-dose vial of measles vaccine for routine immunization programs improve programme performance? We have received some reports that not all vaccination sessions include measles vaccination. Because the health workers are reluctan...

Cross posted from the 'http://www.who.int/immunization/gin/en/" target="_blank">Global Immunization News' with thanks. Claudio Politi and Daniela Urfer, WHO/HQ The Immunization Financing Database has been updated with cMYPs recently developed by countries and submitted to GAVI in June 2011 for f...

This has been cross-posted from the SABIN website with thanks. Since late 2008, the Sustainable Immunization Financing (SIF) Program has been operating in twelve African, and three Asian pilot countries. Using a collective action approach, SIF invites key stakeholders - especially parliamentar...

Many thanks to Alison Ruth Brunier for sharing this information Please note that we have today posted on the WHO web site an information sheet and questions and answers on thiomersal. - Information sheet - http://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/thiomersal_information_sheet/en/index.html - ...

Recently, I have seen a number of relatively large RFQ’s for direct drive refrigerators. These refrigerators do not have an ice pack freezer. From past feed back from our customers and WHO we have heard that ice packs are necessary to distribute vaccines to more remote areas. We are concerned that t...

This is not a new thing. After delivery requesting for an early discharge is a common high risk practice. There is a rising awareness among the community, thanks to social mobilization by the ASHA and the Govt for introducing "ASHA" who accompanies the precious pregnant women who deliver the future ...

by Sophie Newland, PATH and Gisele Corrêa Miranda, Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz The environmental, social, and economic impact of packaging materials is a growing interest and concern among governments, industry, universities, and regulatory bodies around the world. Innovations in design and material d...