This revision to the multi-dose vial policy provides updated guidance on how to handle all opened multi-dose vials of WHO pre-qualified vaccines. It outlines the conditions under which opened multi-dose vials can be kept for 28 days and which must be discarded after 6 hours or at the end of the immunization session, whichever comes first, along with a description of the visual triggers that can be used to guide vaccine handling by vaccinators.
Organisations
- World Health Organisation (WHO)
Topic references
EPI-CORE-SCL
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Cold room temperature mapping studies | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2018 | Guidance | English |
EVM assessment tools and user guides | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2019 | Repository | English |
EVM Global Data Analysis | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2018 | Guidance | English |
EVM Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) | UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO) | | Guidance | English, French |
How to Develop a Continuous Improvement Plan (cIP) | UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO) | 2018 | Guidance | Arabic, English, French |
Immunization supply chain and logistics - A neglected but essential system for national immunization programmes | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2014 | Guidance | English, French |
Off-label use of vaccines | Pieter Neels et al. | 2017 | Journal article | English |
Perception of health workers on the use of 30-day temperature recorders | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2018 | Guidance | English |
Perception of health workers on the use of remote temperature monitoring systems | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2018 | Guidance | English |
Solar direct-drive vaccine refrigerators and freezers | | 2017 | Guidance | English |
System design approach to improve the immunization supply chain | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2018 | Guidance | English |
Temperature monitoring study: a fully documented process to detect weaknesses in the supply chain | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2018 | Guidance | English |
Vaccine Management Handbook | UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO) | 2015 | Guidance | French |
WHO guidance note: Vaccine diluents, revision 2015 | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2015 | Guidance | English, French |
WHO policy on the use of opened multi-dose vaccine vials (2014 Revision) | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2014 | Guidance | French |
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