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New E-Course Update - National Logistics Working Group (NLWG)

Dear colleagues, The updated e-course on National Logistics Working Group is now live on UNICEF AGORA!. Access course here:https://agora.unicef.org/course/info.php?id=12571 Several countries acknowledge the National Logistics Working Groups (NLWGs) as an effective in-country coordination mechanism for improving supply and logistics management within immunization and health programmes. The NLWG plays an active role in  developing appropriate terms of reference and standard operating procedures to coordinate COVID-19 vaccines and ancillary products deployment at all levels in collaboration with partners.  This course offers opportunities to learn how to establish the NLWG and strengthen its operations at national and sub-national levels. The update covers the importance of data-driven decision making and the role of sub-national logistics working groups (SNLWG) working in tandem with the NLWG. It is useful for  EPI personnel, Ministry of Health representatives, supply c...

Project Last Mile LCO2/Dry Ice Supply Feasibility Assessment for UCC vaccine storage/distribution in 70 Countries

Project Last Mile (PLM) is an innovative public-private partnership launched in 2010 between The Coca-Cola Company, The Coca-Cola Foundation, United States Agency for International Development (USAID),President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), The Global Fund and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to draw private sector lessons from across the Coca-Cola value chain to benefit health systems strengthening in Africa. Given the need for ultra-cold chain (UCC) for an initial leading COVID-19 vaccine candidate, PLM was asked to conduct an analysis on the availability of liquid CO2 (LCO2) in the Coca-Cola value chain in 47countries in Africa to assist in meeting potential dry ice needs to support ultra-cold chain vaccine distribution. This was then expanded to include COVAX countries in Latin America and the Pacific Islands. PLM completed a rapid assessment examining the feasibility of procuring LCO2 in 70 countries from Coca-Cola partners and suppliers across the three regions....

Vaccine Cost Calculators webinar

PATH, in collaboration with TechNet-21, the East African Community (EAC) Immunitzation Group, and The Vaccine Procurement Practitioners Network (VPPN), are delighted to invite you to join a webinar on using PATH's Vaccine Cost Calculators to inform immunization decision-making.  Webinar title: Using PATH’s Vaccine Cost Calculators to inform immunization decision-making Description: For country-level policymakers, the opportunity to introduce a new vaccine comes with many considerations. Is the vaccine needed? What are the benefits? Is there enough capacity in the cold chain system? Often most important—what will it cost, and can our country afford it? Adding complexity to complexity, new vaccine products and new formulations of existing vaccines continue to be developed and commercialized, which can make decisions more daunting when a country is choosing which vaccine product to introduce or switch to. PATH’s new ...

Webinar on DHIS2 COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Toolkit

Hi all! For those of you who are interested, the DHIS2 team at the University of Oslo is hosting a webinar on Thursday, 28 January from 14-15:00 Oslo time (UTC+1) on the DHIS2 COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Toolkit. Registration is open via this online form: https://forms.gle/P1YC8QHD4UjFjMWU9 The webinar will cover the following topics: - WHO metadata & dashboard packages for monitoring vaccine delivery - Electronic Immunization Registry for COVID-19 - Vaccine stock management - Adverse events/vaccine safety monitoring - Digital vaccine certificates & local innovations - Implementation planning & integration with existing systems More information on the toolkit is available on our website: https://www.dhis2.org/covid-vaccine-delivery We hope you're able to join us! ...

Suspected Unexpected Serious Adverse Reaction

Hello everyone! Im Charisse Tan from Philippines. I would like to know if there are official publication or established SUSAR for any of the covid-19 vaccine? What is the difference between SUSAR and serious AEFI? Thank you

SHARING FOR EXTRA-CARING

Dear viewers I am happy to share the attached ppt which is the 11th protocol written by the author starting from H1N1. This I circulated in my country with potential program supporters for editing as a draft following which I got circulars from MoHFW shared through media and updated with key points and re shared with the same group of viewers. Some of the professors from medical colleges who are actively involved in delivering COVID-19 vaccination services acknowledged for sharing as a comprehensive presentation and used in the sensitization programme in their college. As “epidemiology is dynamic”; very much so for COVID-19, revising the ppt also should happen in due course for betterment of subsequent rounds. In this, we tailored the ppt to suit our college [system approved beneficiaries/logistics/booth locations..], we included screening component prior to vaccination for deriving one of the indicators – rejection/exclusion at the vaccination site [e.g. aged above 65; preg...

[Webinar] Join us this Thursday: Public Private Partnership in Immunization Data Strengthening

Vietnam’s National Immunization Information System (NIIS) is an ongoing story of a sustainably planned, government-run, nationwide electronic immunization registry (EIR) and vaccine tracking system that demonstrates a public-private partnership that both built the infrastructure and provided the service delivery. The NIIS is the product of a partnership between the Vietnam Ministry of Health and one of the country’s largest mobile network operators (MNOs), Viettel Business Solutions Corporation. Nationwide implementation of the NIIS entails essential engagement of private, fee-based immunization facilities that help to expand the reach of immunization services to the population. Throughout the decade-long evolution of the EIR in Vietnam, PATH has played the role of a catalyst to accelerate coordination and bridge the gap between the two sectors. The IDEAL Vietnam project (Introducing Digital Immunization information systems–Exchange And Learning from Vietnam, funded by the Bill ...

Independent consultants sought for bid

Hi,

An ex-colleague wrote me trying to identify independent consulalnts, with expertise in cold chain logistics and technology, to include in a bid by an organization focusedo on electrification. 

That's all I know. 

But would be happy to pass along your details to the interested party. 

 

Thanks,

 

Raja

Raja Rao
Director, Cold Chain Strategy & Markets

B Medical Systems S.a r.l.
17, op der Hei
L - 9809 Hosingen

The challenge of global covid-19 vaccine distribution demands a new approach

The paper I authored together with my dear friend Alan Kennedy, analyzes a more resilient transport mode, ocean freight, to supplement road and air freight.   “There is little doubt that the long-haul transportation of COVID-19 vaccines and other vital pharmaceuticals needs to be conducted in a manner that is coordinated, integrated, multi-modal, affordable, sustainable, and reliable. Practically speaking, this will require a shift from airfreight to sea freight for a proportion of COVID-19 vaccines and other medicines.“   To download the paper http://kartoglu.ch/papers/2020-IPI-Winter.pdf    To download the IPI Journal Winter 2020 issue https://issuu.com/mark123/docs/2020-ipi-winter-web_compressed?fbclid=IwAR1DGpmZgpRZPlKHvDq5h4RdZaDFe2joLSAf6buTAG1c4947oopy0xABle4...