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UNICEF
This guidance manual provides an overview of the steps involved in assessing forecasting and supply planning (FSP) and developing an improvement plan. It also introduces UNICEF’s FSP assessment...
UNICEF
This guidance manual explains why it is important to consider the key activities required to initiate the operationalization of the forecast and supply plan and briefly discusses them.
UNICEF
This guidance manual provides an overview as to why it is important to monitor the performance of forecasting and supply planning (FSP), the steps involved in monitoring FSP performance, the key...
UNICEF
This guidance manual provides an overview of the steps involved in conducting a forecasting and supply planning (FSP) review.
UNICEF
Following the development of the forecast and supply plan using the ratified data and assumptions, the next activity is presenting results to key stakeholders. This section discusses why the...
UNICEF
This guidance manual provides an overview of the supply planning concept, including the steps involved in estimating and costing commodity requirements. An example illustrating how commodity...
UNICEF
This guidance manual provides an overview of the various forecasting methods, including the steps involved in implementing each method. Examples illustrating how each method can be applied are also...
UNICEF
This guidance manual provides an overview of the forecasting and supply planning (FSP) preparatory phase. It covers the key activities that should be completed, including describing the programme,...
UNICEF
This guidance manual provides an overview of the forecasting and supply planning (FSP) team, including the roles and responsibilities of the team, governance structure, operational procedures, and...
UNICEF
This guidance manual provides an overview of forecasting and supply planning (FSP). It covers the definition of FSP, vaccine FSP processes, benefits of FSP and the strategic pillars central to the...
EYE Strategy Laboratory Technical Working group (EYE-LTWG)
Yellow Fever Confirmatory Testing Algorithm for Regional Reference Laboratories
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Instructions on Gavi’s process for the renewal and multi-year approval of vaccine support
UNICEF
This guidance manual is developed in response to the need to strengthen national-level Forecasting and Supply Planning (FSP) processes with particular emphasis on achieving equity and reaching...
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Eligible countries can access detailed guidelines to manage the support they receive from Gavi. These include Gavi vaccine funding guidelines, application process guidelines, programme funding...
Fox et al.
This collection seeks to elucidate the practical methods necessary for successful adjuvant development, with a particular focus on the synthesis, formulation, manufacturing, and characterization...
World Health Organization (WHO)
This document summarizes current technical and programmatic information on WHO prequalified PCV products to facilitate informed country choices for PCV introduction or product switch for...
Folake Olayinka, Leah Ewald, Robert Steinglass
The number of vaccines available to low-income countries has increased dramatically over the last decade. Overall infant immunization coverage in the WHO African region has stagnated in the past few...
Erin Fry Sosne, Kelly Healy, Heather Ignatius
This paper—designed for use by US executive branch officials, members of Congress, advocates, and other stakeholders— presents an analysis of the USG’s role in global immunization and offers...
CHOICES
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) catch-up vaccination at the time of PCV introduction in children aged 12 to 59 months of age has been recommended by WHO as reflected in the 2019 WHO position...
Elisabetta De Vito, Paolo Parente, Chiara de Waure, Andrea Poscia, Walter Ricciardi
This review focuses on existing immunization policies and practices for migrants and refugees and provides an overview of barriers and facilitators for access to and utilization of immunization...
World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, JSI, PATH
A guide to decide on adopting single dose schedule
World Health Organization (WHO)
Job aid on how to verify the expiration date of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent (Original and Omicron BA.4/BA.5) using based on the manufacturing date printed on the primary and secondary...
Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe
Field guide for vaccinators and teachers for HPV vaccine introduction in Zimbabwe
Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health, Zambia
Guide for health managers and service providers on HPV vaccination in the context of a (3 doe schedule ) demonstration programme in Zambia
Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health, Zambia
Guidelines for the health works involved in the HPV vaccination in the Zambian demonstration programme (Note: 3 dose schedule)
National Emergency Operation Centre, Pakistan
In this National Emergency Action Plan (NEAP) for 2016 - 2017, the main objective is to stop transmission in the core reservoirs and maintain or increase population immunity against polio in the rest...
PATH, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, VillageReach
An actionable guide to processes and standards for cold chain stakeholders. This document provides guidance and rationale for key stakeholders throughout the cold chain (such as EPI managers, cold...
University of Washington, William Davidson Institute (University of Michigan), VillageReach
VillageReach worked with partners – William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI) and University of Washington (UW) – to adapt and create “light touch” tools that allow users...
Nexleaf Analytics, Mozambique Ministry of Health, VillageReach
A cold chain expert and a Ministry of Health (MOH) technician used Nexleaf Analytics’ ColdTrace remote temperature monitoring (RTM) dashboard data to remotely identify every failing fridge...
MICS
Vaccination coverage surveys - This document contains a spreadsheet template for a MICS budget
MAHAD IBRAHIM
A short article on data management during the ebola outbreak in 2014-2015, and some new perspectives and lessons learned from working with weak health management information systems during health...
Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP), USAID
This document provides a summary of MCSP/JSI’s experience in the adaptation of the regional Reaching Every District (RED) guideline to country-specific contexts in order to inform other countries...
World Health Organization (WHO)
This article presents the World Health Organization\'s (WHO) recommendations for the use of vaccines against Bordetella pertussis from the WHO position paper on Pertussis vaccines: WHO position...
JSI, VillageReach, Acasus
Health supply chains in low-income countries have improved markedly thanks to major investments in recent years. Yet the failure to finance last-mile delivery too often prevents products from...
USAID
Immunization is at the very core of health programs around the world yet its performance is commonly measured by just a single number, namely coverage with a third dose of a vaccine that protects...
USAID
Using high-quality routine immunization data is critical to helping health officials and managers plan services and make decisions that enable them to reach every child with immunization. As the...
UNICEF, JSI Research & Training Institute
This document recommends supply chain and related performance indicators for health programs to use to monitor and improve the availability of the 13 key life-saving commodities of the UN Commission...
ISO
Update ISO 10781:2015 provides a reference list of functions that may be present in an Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S). The function list is described from a user perspective with the intent...
World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF
Integration of COVID-19 vaccination into routine immunization and primary health care
African Ministers of Health
The Addis Declaration on Immunization calls for countries to increase political and financial investments in their immunization programmes. It includes 10 commitments, including increasing...
Chris Wright, Sidharth Rupani, Kameko Nichols, Yasmin Chandani, Matiko Machagge
As more low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) explore opportunities to improve efficiency and performance in their public health supply chains and diagnostics networks, they face myriad choices...
PATH, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
To aid decision-makers interested in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine introduction or scale-up, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and PATH completed the first comprehensive review of...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), UNICEF, Ghana Health Service
Example of an immunization flip-chart from Ghana
Hamadou M. Dicko
The primary objectives of this document are to provide a step-by-step approach of a successful acquisition/introduction of solar cold chain equipment for vaccines management, and to share the lessons...
Isao Arita, Donald A. Henderson, Frank Fenner, Zdenek Jezek, Ivan Danilovich Ladnyi
The definitive history of the worlds most triumphant achievement in medicine and public health. In 31 chapters, this monumental work recounts the history of one of humanity\'s worst diseases, moving...
United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, Gender & Health Hub, Global Financing Facility, UNICEF, UNAIDS, A. A. Adeyemo, UNDP, UN women, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
This checklist provides a set of practical actions for countries to implement and ensure gender equality and equity in the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines towards the aim of “leaving no one...