POST 01166E : RETRACTABLE SYRINGE 3 October 2007 ________________________________ Carib Nelson from PATH is sending you the summary of the following report "Evaluation of a Retractable Syringe in South Africa". As said in his message, the full report is available upon request. NO...

POST 01165E : VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES : YOUR OPINION 1st October 2007 __________________________________ Craig Shapiro from WHO requests your opinion. Documents are attached as they are rather small in size. The deadline is short by the end of this week, so you must react fast. ____...

POST 01164E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Post 01138E 30 September 2007 ____________________________________ The following contribution comes from Femi Odegbami from Nigeria ____________________________________ Dear Moderator and TechNet21 readers, I would like to than...

POST 01162E : NEEDLE REMOVER ASSESSMENT 26 September 2007 _______________________________________ It is Guyana’s turn to publish a needle removers’ assessment (865K). It was sent by Nicole Dupré of Initiatives Inc., and forwarded with very positive comments by James Cheyne and Carib Nelso...

POST 01161E : MEASLES VACCINATION AND BHS Follow-up on Post 01154E 23 September 2007 ____________________________________ The following comment is from Anthony Battersby from the United Kingdom. I make further comments on this issue below. ____________________________________ Do no...

POST 01160E : QUESTIONS ON CCM CARDS Follow-up on Post 01155E 29 september 2007 ________________________________ The following contribution is from Ümit Kartoglu from WHO in response to Nihal Babalioglu’s request. I apologize to Nihal for having addressed her as him... ____________...

POST 01158E : VACCINE OUT-OF-THE-COLD-CHAIN 17 September 2007 ________________________________________ The following article describes the use of an out-of-the-cold-chain immunization strategy to improve the timeliness of the HB birth dose in rural China. It showed a large improvement ...

POST 01157E : VACCINATION IN SCHOOLS : REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 14 September 2007 ___________________________________ The following request comes from Jhilmil Bahl from WHO. You are invited to share the information with the forum too. It may interest many other members. __________________...

POST 01155E : QUESTIONS ON CCM CARDS 8 September 2007 _____________________________ The following questions come from Nihal Babalioglu presumably from Turkey. Please relpy directly to him with copy to Technet _____________________________ I would appreciate if I can get the answers to my...

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 ...

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 Fren...

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 ...

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-...

TECHNET21 E-FORUM Technical network for strengthening immunization services Contributions to: [email=%3Ca%20href=][log in to unmask][/email]">[log in to unmask] or use your reply button! __________________________________________________________ POST 01145E : VACCINE PREVENTABLE MORT...

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 com...

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 furth...

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_E...

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 docum...

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 m...

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 pi...