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Providing all India solution to all India problems

Dear all Context: IAPSMCON – 2019: Symposium on Routine Immunization (RI) In this month, symposium was held at the national level on RI, chaired by National Consultants and senior designated persons from Immunization Technical Support Unit [ITSU] for Government of India implementing the programme in Medical Colleges and the country. Following are some of the concerns expressed and discussed: Role of medical collegea) Capacity building of nursing staff / undergraduates by including RI in the curriculum,b) Developing communicating skills with parents / care giversc) Establishing dedicated vaccination clinic in the college and tertiary care centresd) Adequate exposure for gaining operational knowledge during internship andd) Taking up research activities in various thematic areas. Establishing inter departmental / inter-sectoral co-ordination / for active participation in respective interwoven thematic areas. Proactive adequate involvement by both public and private sectors fora...

Vaccine and its commodities

Dear all

Can i get the simple distribution plan format of vaccine and others logistics commodities? 

I am thinking of changing the plan of my own country for district level for immunization program strenghtening. 

Thank you

Anish Shah

NEW from MCSP: Community Monitoring of Individual Children’s Vaccinations: Six Country Experiences

USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is pleased to introduce our latest publication, Community Monitoring of Individual Children’s Vaccinations: Six Country Experiences. This brief details MCHIP/MCSP experiences with community monitoring of vaccinations in Timor-Leste, India, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Tanzania. These efforts involve engaging communities to monitor every child’s individual vaccinations, promote vaccination, and refer caregivers with under-vaccinated children, often supported by use of the My Village is My Home (MVMH) tool, initially developed in India as a public tracking tool to motivate families and create the social expectation that they should keep their children up-to-date on vaccinations. Although attributing coverage changes to community monitoring is challenging, countries experienced successes including higher coverage, improved timeliness, and more accurate target populations. In addition, both communities and health staff n...

HLN Releases Update to its Award Winning Open Source Immunization Forecaster

On March 7, 2019, HLN released a new version (v1.16.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE). ICE is a state-of-the-art open-source software system that provides clinical decision support for immunizations for use in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Personal Health Record (PHR) Systems. This version includes: DTP Vaccine Group: Added an update to the "Six by Seven" rule to explicitly state that duplicate shots on the same day do not count towards this rule. The intention of this change is to prevent potentially "bad data" that may be passed into the ICE service from affecting the forecast result. Hib Vaccine Group: Improved handling of duplicate shots administered on the same day. For details, please refer to the Two Shots, Same Vaccine Group, Same Day Exception Rules page. Minor logic changes to the Meningococcal B, Polio, Rotavirus and Pneumococcal vaccine groups. HLN recently demon...

Details of Technet 21conference 2019

Could anybody share the dates, venue and other details of the technet 21 conference in 2019 please 

Upcoming Solar Energy Harvesting Field Evaluation

PATH and the Solar Electric Light Fund are pleased to announce upcoming field evaluations of cold chain equipment with energy harvesting control (EHC) features. EHC appliance features allow solar direct drive refrigerators to power devices such as lights and cell phones while keeping vaccines at appropriate temperatures. EHC must use only excess energy to power devices other than the refrigerator—energy the refrigerator does not need to keep vaccines at appropriate temperatures. Manufacturers that want to participate in the field evaluation are invited to contact PATH if their product meets World Health Organization Performance, Quality and Safety specifications (PQS_E007_EHC1.1). --> If interested, please contact PATH at plennon@path.org by July 31, 2018....

Countries in Africa using vaccine outside of the cold chain

Does anyone know how many countries in the AFRO region are using vaccine outside of the cold chain or using the controlled temperature chain?

Paper about assessing Electronic Immunization Registries

Happy to share our paper "Assessing electronic immunization registries: the Pan American Health Organization [PAHO] experience" Full text available at: http://iris.paho.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/50475/v43e282019.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y ; Abstract Objective. To develop a methodology to assess electronic immunization registries (EIRs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Methods. A team from the Immunization Unit at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reviewed existing methodologies to evaluate health information systems, particularly the Performance of Routine Information System Management (PRISM) framework and methodologies used to assess information systems. In 2014, the PAHO team convened a small working group to develop an evaluation approach to be added to the existing World Health Organization immunization data quality self-assessment (DQS) tool. The resulting DQS with an added EIR component was name...

Vaccine apps

There is a need for immunisation programmes to maintain high vaccine coverage, for which digital technology offers an opportunity. mHealth initiatives are largely in place already, and vaccine mobile applications are one of them. Vaccine apps that I am aware of provide the user with very useful information; however, this one-way type of information flow makes of the user’s experience a static one. Does anyone have experience with more dynamic vaccine apps or more tailored immunization experiences through mobile apps?

Your feedback will be very much appreciated!