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What we can learn from other health areas to improve vaccine forecasts for zero-dose children.
Experience and lessons learned from Ghana's immunization program.
AMÉLIORATION DE LA COUVERTURE VACCINALE CONTRE LA COVID-19 PARMI LES POPULATIONS RÉFUGIÉES AU PAKISTAN
The costs and financing of the national immunization programs have been evaluated since 1980s, particularly as part of Universal Childhood Immunization Initiative. However, available information is...
Persistent gaps in the availability of essential medicines have slowed the achievement of global health targets. Despite the supply chain knowledge and expertise that ministries of health might glean...
At the end of 2013, the Government of Benin and Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP) launched a demonstration project in Comé Health Zone (HZ) to optimize the vaccine supply chain. A key part of...
Background
The introduction of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) represents a crucial step in the polio eradication endgame. This trial examined the safety and immunogenicity of IPV given...
Collection of timely and accurate immunization information is essential for effective immunization programs. Current immunization information systems have important limitations that impact the...
This Findings Report includes an overview of the MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project’s global mapping of private sector interventions supporting COVID-19 efforts,...
This project Optimize document summarizes a laboratory report on performance testing of four models of domestic refrigerators that are available on the Tunisian market. Project Optimize contracted...
APPROCHE DÉDIÉE À LA PRESTATION DES SERVICES DE VACCINATION CONTRE LA COVID-19 DE LA ZAMBIE: UTILISER LA GÉNÉRATION DE DEMANDE ASCENDANTE POUR ATTEINDRE CHAQUE PERSONNE ADMISSIBLE
Since the first reported case in March 2020, Zambia has endured four waves of COVID-19. As of December 31, 2022, the country had recorded more than 330,000 infections and 4,000 deaths. With the...
RIPOSTE À LA PANDÉMIE DE COVID-19 PAR LA SANTÉ NUMÉRIQUE : DES ENSEIGNEMENTS POUR GUIDER LES INVESTISSEMENTS ACTUELS ET FUTURS DANS LA SANTÉ NUMÉRIQUE
DIGITAL HEALTH RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: LESSONS TO INFORM ONGOING AND FUTURE DIGITAL HEALTH INVESTMENTS
The effort towards improving the health of the population in Kenya continues to produce results driven by accurate and timely data. Over the past three decades, the country has witnessed impressive...
Immunization saves millions of lives against vaccine-preventable diseases. Yet, 24 million children born every year do not receive proper immunization during their first year. UNICEF and WHO have...
PROBLEM: Field trials require extensive data preparation and complex logistics. The use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) can bypass
many of the traditional steps that are necessary in a...
The use of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) in routine immunization to replace Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) is crucial in eradicating polio. In June 2014, Nigeria launched an IPV campaign in the...
Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a critical role bridging the gap between local communities and public health authorities, providing communities with trusted health information and services and...
Vaccine coverage is routinely used as a performance indicator for immunization programs both at local and global levels. For many national immunization programs, there are challenges with accurately...
A post on ensuring equitable vaccination in lower income countries. The post highlights key areas including strengthening data systems, supporting immunization supply chain improvements and driving...
BACKGROUND: Access to mobile phone technology has rapidly expanded in developing countries. In Africa- mHealth is a relatively new concept and questions arise regarding reliability of the technology...
Synthesis report covering a cross-country analysis of data review teams interventions carried out by CHAI, John Snow, Inc., and VillageReach. Surfaces three principles and eight recommendations for...
This brief describes the lessons learned by the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), JSI and VillageReach through developing and implementing different types of data review teams across multiple...
OBJECTIVE:
Currently available measles vaccines are administered by subcutaneous injections and require reconstitution with a diluent and a cold chain, which is resource intensive and challenging to...
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into its third year, an ongoing challenge has been conveying the continued risk of the disease and the benefits of vaccination as media outlets have shifted their...
BACKGROUND: To achieve a measles free world, effective communication must be part of all elimination plans. The choice of communication approaches must be evidence based, locally appropriate,...
This case study documents the benefits and challenges in partnership identification, development and maintenance between Mobile Network Operator Viettel, the Ministry of Health and PATH in Vietnam....
This case study from Colombia presents the activities carried out to mainstream the delivery of COVID-19 vaccination into the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) through planning and...
Documented lessons learnt
Documenting the change of approach in Cote d’Ivoire from a single fixed site to multiple outreach sites
UTILISATION D’UNE APPROCHE SANS INCINÉRATION POUR LA GESTION DES DÉCHETS CONTAMINÉS (OBJETS POINTUS ET TRANCHANTS) GÉNÉRÉS PAR LA VACCINATION CONTRE LA COVID-19 DANS LA VALLÉE DE KATMANDOU
UTILISATION D’UNE APPROCHE SANS INCINÉRATION POUR LA GESTION DES DÉCHETS CONTAMINÉS (OBJETS POINTUS ET TRANCHANTS) GÉNÉRÉS PAR LA VACCINATION CONTRE LA COVID-19 DANS LA VALLÉE DE KATMANDOU
JSI, VillageReach (VR) and CHAI collaborated across several countries and
supply chains to explore the challenges of dissemination, interpretation and
use of global technical goods.
Highlighting Rwanda’s Experience Scaling Real-time Monitoring Approaches Using Digital Solutions to Support COVID-19 Surveillance, COVID-19 Vaccination and Case Management
Ce document présente les principales considérations programmatiques essentielles pour passer des campagnes de masse pour la vaccination contre la COVID-19 à l'intégration de la vaccination contre...
Le présent manuel accompagne l’utilisation des outils sur les facteurs comportementaux et sociaux de la vaccination pour comprendre ce qui incite à se faire vacciner. Il s’adresse aux...
WHO and partners have developed a new strategic framework with the National Immunization Strategy (NIS) project, following adoption of the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) to guide immunization...
1. Global updates: Network design, system optimization and vaccine management best practice 2. Country innovations: Designing for the future and rethinking more
fundamental design elements
The strategy provides content on the three steps of humanitarian intervention;
1) assessing the local epidemiological risk of VPDs among the affected population,
2) assessing vaccine selection and...
5 operational components (outreach, supervision, linking services to communities, monitoring and use of data for action and planning and management for resources).
TAn overview of the principle of integration as expressed in the GVAP and IA2030. Provides links to the integration resource guide, illustrative examples of delivery platforms that can be used for...
Highlights some best practices and common mistakes that have been learnt from reviewing of past assessments. It comes with a CEA report template and suggestions on the components and activities that...
Dado que COVID exige tamaños de sesión más pequeños, es más importante que nunca considerar un tamaño de vial de vacuna más pequeño para adaptarse mejor a los tamaños de las sesiones.Esta...
Le COVID exigeant des sessions de plus petite taille, il est plus important que jamais de réduire la taille des flacons de vaccins pour mieux les adapter à la taille des sessions.
Cette...
With COVID demanding smaller session sizes, it is more important than ever to consider smaller vaccine vial size to better tailor to session sizes.This presentation will share results from an...
This note is based on the experience of several technical partners and consultants who have supported the preparations for the introduction of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine1 across sub-Saharan Africa...
Remplacer un vaccin par un autre peut impacter significativement le budget national alloué à la vaccination. Pour le programme palestinien de vaccination contre le rotavirus, ce choix s’est...