Tool
Vaccine Wastage Rates Calculator
A planning tool for improving the accuracy of forecasting vaccine wastage rates based on service delivery settings.
• Estimates, with greater precision, vaccine supply requirements and to improve the planning and management of immunization programmes.
• Automatically calculates the estimated wastage rates for all WHO prequalified vaccines (including Rotavirus, PCV, HPV and TCV), increasing the accuracy and quality of wastage data at country level.
• Computes the total wastage rate, which includes the unavoidable open vial wastage rate, the closed vial wastage rate per storage facility and the avoidable opened vial wastage rate.
Authors
Languages
- English
Type
Tool
Categories
- Supply chain & logistics
Topic references
SUPPLY-TOOLS
| Title | Author | Year | Type | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Chain Equipment Inventory and Gap Analysis Tool (2021) | World Health Organization (WHO) | Tool | English | |
| EPI Logistics Forecasting Tool (2021) | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2021 | Tool | Spanish |
| Outil d'inventaire et analyse de gap de la chaîne du froid | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2021 | Tool | French |
| Outil de prévision de la logistique du PEV | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2021 | Tool | French |
| Temperature Mapping Tool | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2019 | Tool | English |
| Vaccine Volume Calculator | World Health Organization (WHO) | Tool | English | |
| Vaccine Wastage Rates Calculator | World Health Organization (WHO) | Tool | English |
