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Dear TechNet-21 Community,
Following the WHO PQS statement on the Vestfrost investigation, please find attached guidance on the management of the equipment and vaccines. Thank you.
Michelle Seidel
Immunization Supply Chain, Programme Division Office: +45 45 33 56 12, Mobile : +45 30 78 76 54, E-mail: mseidel@unicef.org
United Nations Children’s Fund UN City,Marmovej 51,Copenhagen, Denmark
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Dear all Routine Immunization programme is rapidly expanding in the country, more and more vaccines are included in the National Immunization Schedule [NIS] in phased manner. Rota Virus Vaccine is being introduced in Karnataka. As customary, in Dakshinakannada district, training programmes were held in 2 batches on 17th & 19th July 2019 in collaboration with WHO country office, this will be followed by training at block and planning unit level. With additional vaccines, additional cold space is required. Most of the multi dose vials have 10 or more doses e.g. 2mL OPV provides 20 doses, 5mL MR provides 10 doses, 2.5mL fIPV provides 25 doses. Currently supplied RVV is unique in the sense 5mL per vial after reconstitution has 2 doses of 2.5mL each. Hence the storage code is revised to accommodate Vaccine Vials if not the diluents. A Planning Unit in Karnataka is not having more than 30,000 populations, at 20 birth rate; estimated annual target of 0-1year children will be 600, on an...
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During the routine visits to Medical Colleges, opportunistic proactive supportive supervision was provided which helps in updating the practices on the spot to keep pace with the current schedule.
It also gives an opportunity to share the successful interventions through on the spot rectification and presentations.
This being opportunistic and voluntary - it is a zero budget activity which anybody can do.
Attached is one such example happened on 17 July 2019.
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We are happy to announce the latest version of the Total Cost of Ownership tool for cold chain equipment (v1.7) is now available to download and use. If you have been using an earlier version of the tool, please download the latest version from the *new* link below. Version 1.7 of the TCO tool contains all PQS pre-qualified equipment as of July 2019 and is available in English and French. https://www.path.org/resources/total-cost-of-ownership-tool-for-cold-chain-equipment/ Version 1.7 includes a new filter by energy source and type of CCE option which allows users to filter by power (solar, mains, passive) as well as type, such as refrigerator versus refrigerator and freezer combination units. More walk in cold and freezer rooms have also been added to the tool along with the ability to filter for CCEOP eligible equipment and storage segment needs. If you have any questions or would like training/demos please email Matt Mori...
Dear friends, Greetings from National Cold Chain Resource Centre,India!!!!!!! Would like to introduce NCCRC in brief. It is joint initiative of GoMH, MoHFW - GoI & UNICEF and with its technical mandate in support of immunization programme,largely instrumental in developing skills of Cold Chain Technicians and other immunization staff on managing & expanding technical supply chain & training infrastructure and its management, In view of this,delighted to share with you a key initiative to further strengthen the capacity of cold chain technicians on repair and maintenance of cold chain equipments.NCCRC with support from MoHFW-India and UNICEF have developed a hands-on film dealing with various components while repairing equipmentsThe films covers use of checklist/undertaking/major repairs including voltage stabilizer. The concept behind developing these films is to act like a ready reckoner while repairing an equipment. The technician can actually play these fi...
Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur ce point et sur d’autres aspects importants des enquêtes sur la couverture vaccinale post-campagne (ECV post-campagne), nous vous invitons à visionner les diapositives et à visionner l’enregistrement vidéo du webinaire qui s’est déroulé le 15 juillet 2019 ici. https://youtu.be/9i116gjRZZ8 Aussi, nous vous invitons à rejoindre le groupe des ECV en vous enregistrant sur TechNet et en suivant le lien https://www.technet-21.org/en/network/groups/441-enquetes-de-couverture-vaccinale. La conversation du webinaire continue et vous pouvez également poser toutes vos questions ou vous entre aider sur le sujet sur le forum du groupe ECV en cliquant sur l'onglet "discussions" - ou en cliquant directement sur https://www.technet-21.org/en/network/groups/441-enquetes-de-couverture-vaccinale/30-discussions - puis en cliquant sur le bouton "new discussion". Une fois dans le groupe, vous aurez accès à plusieurs ressources...
Vacancies are currently open for two positions in the Vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization team at WHO/Europe, focusing on: Immunization and VPD Surveillance Data http://bit.ly/2YKGjzA Vaccine Quality and Safety http://bit.ly/32fzXdA Application deadline: 29 July 2019
Nigeria EX-Scholars on the way to creating lasting impact WHO Scholar program a learning approach to bring sharing new innovations and intervention guideline to improving immunization system all over the globe has been widely received by Nigerians and other scholars in different countries across the globe. The WHO Scholar Program have deepen our knowledge in immunization system and how to improve in immunizations coverages in our different context and further creating lasting impact. In fact we now thinking differently outside the box towards bringing innovative ideas and strategies that will improve immunization program quality and coverage. This has been possible through having different learning methodology like the open webinars, short videos by experience course contributors from WHO, UNICEF, CDC etc, peer review process, sharing of guidelines by course team, whatsup platform, and other platform created by the Geneva Learning Foundation. Nigeria Ex-scholars who have completed o...
Dear all Vaccination records from private vaccination service providers give us very good opportunities to passively monitor the quality of the service in terms of timeliness and completeness. Monitoring observations are shared with the specific service provider, corresponding government planning unit, stakeholders of both the sectors for appropriate actions. The recent CME workshop arranged by native district IAP in collaboration with Government and WHO country office titled “Confusion to Clarity” is an example of proactive purposive approach by the private sector. Hope the attached one of the several qualitative examples will make it much clearer and justify the CME workshop, providing documentary evidence to replicate and scale up similar workshops in all districts and state level. Being passive monitoring, this is a zero budget programme which all dedicated vaccination clinics can easily do, helping to improve the quality of service delivery to attain the goals and obj...
L’événement: Enquêtes de couverture vaccinale post-campagne (après une ASV) Lundi 15 juillet 2019 à 16 heures de Genève (vérifier l'heure) Lien d’inscription | Webinar ID: 146-979-176 Une ASV est toute activité vaccinale conduite en plus des services de vaccination systématique. Les enquêtes de couverture vaccinale post-campagne: Quelles sont leurs spécificités? Comment utiliser le Manuel de référence de l’OMS pour les enquêtes de couverture vaccinale par sondage en grappes afin de mieux les préparer? Quelles sont les nouvelles ressources disponibles pour améliorer leur qualité? Avec la participation de: Dr. Carolina Danovaro (OMS) Dr. Mamadou Diallo (UNICEF) Dr. David Koffi (ADS) et Dr. Carol Tevi-Benissan (OMS) Cet événement est ouvert à tous, sans condition. Il sera également diffusé via Facebook Live sur cette page. Cliquez ici pour participer à l'év...
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