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Learning Collective Initiative in COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership webinar series

Dear colleagues, You are invited to the next session of the ‘Learning Collective Initiative’ in Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership (CoVDP) Webinar Series.  Session 4 – Learnings from One Plan / One Budget DevelopmentSeptember 20, 2022 - 11.30am UTC  A ‘Learning Collective Initiative’ has been established under the CoVDP to provide targeted support to 34 concerted support countries. This workstream will collect, consolidate, and share lessons learned, best practices, and challenges in planning and operationalizing COVID-19 vaccination uptake. This series is primarily directed at national authorities who are responsible for managing or making key decisions on the deployment, implementation and monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines. The secondary target audience includes partners in the one country team who can provide desired technical support. French interpretation will be provided.  Register here: https://echo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqc-uopjoiHdOUcl4uNzIP...

Teach to Reach: Local health practitioners from all over the world will meet on 14 October 2022 to explore how to build back better and prepare for the next pandemic

Teach to Reach: Local health practitioners from all over the world will meet on 14 October 2022 to explore how to build back better and prepare for the next pandemic GENEVA, 5 October 2022 (THE GENEVA LEARNING FOUNDATION) – The seventh edition of Teach to Reach on 14 October 2022 will connect over 13,000 immunization and other Primary Health care (PHC) professionals determined to “build back better”, as the COVID-19 pandemic fuels the largest continued backslide in vaccinations in three decades. 25 million infants missed out on lifesaving vaccines in 2021. Request your invitation for Teach to Reach 7https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach At Teach to Reach, the Women Who Deliver Vaccines collective will lead the Opening Ceremony, sharing their perspective on how women are contributing to “build back better”. Learn more about Women Who Deliver Vaccineshttps://www.learning.foundation/iwd Listening and learning from the experience of women and men who are challenging g...

Launch of Global Compendium of country knowledge on COVID-19 vaccination

The Global Compendium of country knowledge on COVID-19 vaccination is now available. It aims at offering an organized information space that: Facilitates countries, development partners, NGOs and entities supporting vaccine rollout, access to other country’s documented successes and challenges of their COVID-19 vaccination programmes; this would potentially inform about emerging issues in real-time and thus open a pathway for immediate solutions Establishes a knowledge platform that creates an operational legacy to inform planning for expanding and strengthening vaccination across the life-course in non-emergency settings, as well as, in how emergency vaccination could be scaled-up in preparation of a future health crisis Topics areas include COVID19 vaccination country experiences COVID19 vaccination country case studies Country evaluations reviews, reports and publications The Global Compendium is continually under development and country case stud...

TechNet webinar series: Reaching Zero-Dose Children

Dear colleagues, You are invited to a new TechNet webinar series on Reaching Zero-Dose Children. The Zero-Dose Children Webinar series will build understanding of how to reach key populations which are missed by immunisation and other basic health services including communities residing in poor urban areas (informal settlements), those affected by conflict and displacement and residents of remote-rural areas. A final webinar will unpack challenges in health workforce in reaching missed communities with basic health services. The webinars will share specific country experiences on the latest learning and best practices for bringing services to the hard-to-reach. This webinar series is a joint initiative between Technet, the Zero-Dose Community of Practice and the Immunization Agenda 2030 working group on coverage and equity. Session 1: Urban immunization08 Sep 2022 - 3pm CESTSession 2: Immunization in fragile/conflict affected settings15 Sep 2022 - 3pm CESTSession 3: Remote rura...

PATH-IDEAL / TechNet-21 webinar: New webinar session: Digital transformation journey of the national immunization information system in Vietnam

PATH IDEAL and TechNet-21 are happy to invite you for a webinar on "Digital transformation journey of the national immunization information system in Vietnam".  Digital health innovations are changing the way health is delivered worldwide, improving the health equity and accessibility, and accelerating the overall global attainment of health. It has become the inevitable way in our generation and the future to come. However, many digital health innovations do not advance beyond the pilot stage to become institutionalized within health systems. The Vietnam National Immunization Information System (NIIS) has thus proven to stand the test of time and adversity throughout the 12-year journey of digital transformation from the paper-based system. The system journey was certainly not without difficulties, challenges, and even failures at time, and PATH is honored to accompany Vietnam National Expanded Program on Immunization (NEPI) along this past decade from the mere cradle of VaxTr...

Insights Live #5: Learning about COVID-19 vaccination, gender barriers, and neglected diseases

Insights Live #5: Learning about COVID-19 vaccination, gender barriers, and neglected diseases Watch the livestream on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXr64AAmUt8 Insights Live is the Geneva Learning Foundation’s event series in which we share what we are learning through the Foundation’s fast-growing global network reaching, as of July 2022, over 45,000 health professionals. Become an Insights Member to receive the full slide deck with 300+ insights on these topics https://www.learning.foundation/insights Request your invitation to Teach to Reach: Connect 7 https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach In this edition of Insights Live, we focus on what we learned during Teach to Reach: Connect 6, the world’s largest networking event for health professionals, about three key topics: 1. How we build confidence in COVID-19 vaccines 2. Listening and learning from the experience of women and men who are challenging gender barriers in immunization 3. Neglected needs ...

How can we learn from local practitioners’ expertise and experience?

We are pleased to announce that the Teach to Reach: Connect 6 plenaries and workshops are now available. Register for Teach to Reach: Connect 7 on 14 October 2022 https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach Topics covered include: Immunization Agenda 2030, COVID-19 vaccine demand, gender barriers to immunization, and neglected needs of women’s health. CLICK HERE TO GET ACCESS https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGenevaLearningFoundation/videos?view=2&;sort=dd&live_view=502&shelf_id=0&sub_confirmation=1 • TIP: We recommend that you subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications to be advised when each session starts on Friday. No reminders will be sent.• If you miss a session, you can use the links below my message to access the recording.• You can also watch the sessions and find the recordings on the Foundation’s Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Poor connectivity? The individual sessions will then be available in the Foundation’s podcast. Subscribe to th...

Measles Outbreak Guide

Dear colleagues,  The conclusions of the Global Measles and Rubella Strategic Plan 2012–2020 implementation midterm review highlighted the need to update protocols for guiding surveillance and outbreak investigation and response.  To that end, WHO and partners have developed the Measles Outbreak Guideto assist with measles outbreak management in all settings that are striving for and approaching measles elimination,  This English language publication is now online on the IVB measles page: https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/diseases/measles Direct link to document: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/measles-outbreak-guide French translation is in process.    This guide is based on existing WHO documents, including:  Response to measles outbreaks in measles mortality reduction settings;  Guide for clinical case management and infection prevention and control during a measle...

Immunization Supply Chain Sizing Tool

Hi Team, this is Johnson Kisanga from CHAI-Tanzania. 

I was going through the Supply chain sizing tool with aim of understanding key parameters that are required to establish requiments for a standart Dry Storage for storing duluents, syringes and safey boxes. So, I'm kind like trying to make an assessment tool that can be used to assess stores around and see how many have qualified and sufficient dry storage. So, I need someone to help me understand how do I physically establish the current existing dry storage so that I know it's insufficient/sufficient if i compare with the output from Supply chain sizing tool.