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Cette brève étude de cas illustre les mesures mises en place par l'Inde pour tirer parti de ses solutions de données numériques existantes dans le cadre de sa campagne de vaccination contre la...
This short case study illustrates how India successfully leveraged its existing digital data solutions as part of its COVID-19 vaccination response. It outlines the solutions used by the country and...
India: Description de la plateforme électronique de vaccination contre la COVID-19 pour l’enregistrement et la déclaration
,India: Description de la plateforme électronique de vaccination...
India: Dry run testing Covid-19 vaccine introduction planning and processes
India: Dry run testing Covid-19 vaccine introduction planning and processes
The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 is a threat to various routine healthcare services. India’s routine immunization (RI) campaign is one of largest ever known. In this review, we discuss the...
India_Description of the COVID-19 vaccination electronic platform for registration and reporting
India: Proven and promising strategies for enhancing vaccine confidence and uptake and risk communication and community engagement with an emphasis on high-risk and vulnerable groups
PQS Code : E004/052 Freeze Free Vaccine Carrier. One of the Lightest Carrier with fastest Cooling rate. Using Standard WHO Approved 0.4 L Ice packs
PQS Code : E004/052 Freeze Free Vaccine Carrier. One of the Lightest Carrier with fastest Cooling rate. Using Standard WHO Approved 0.4 L Ice packs
TechNet Conference 2015: Managing the supply chain (2 of 3)
Day 2 Keynote address
Reaching zero-dose children (infants who receive no routine vaccinations) is a global strategic priority. We studied zero-dose children in India over 24 years to clarify aggregate trends and the...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to disruptions to routine immunization programs in India and around the world, setting the stage for potentially serious outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.
This...
This publication offers a glimpse of the chequered journey of the ‘Network’, a public health infrastructure set up with the aim of supporting polio eradication activities in the five...
Despite the concerted efforts of the central and state governments and other immunization stakeholders, full immunization rates in India remains low. This paper outlines the findings of a...
Introduction: Governments around the world suspended immunization outreach to control COVID-19 spread. Many have since resumed services with an emphasis on catch-up vaccinations. This paper...
Emergence of novel coronavirus has resulted in global chaos within days of its first detection in Wuhan, China. To curb the spread of Covid- 19, stringent actions like lockdown and social distancing...
In outpatient clinics (OPC) in 51 primary health care sites across the country [India], there were significant reductions in clinic operations for immunization services (p<0.001) as well as antenatal...
Resource material for capacity building of healthcare professionals for Covid-19 containment
India is currently undergoing extended lockdown phase; however as per MHA order dated 15th April 20201,all health services are deemed essential and need to be functional across the country.
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The WHO declared COVID 19 as a Global Health Emergency in January 2020. It was
declared a “Pandemic” on March 11, 2020. The Government of India declared a
lockdown on March 22, 2020, which was...
This is a chapter from a larger Immunization Handbook for Medical Officers that the Government of India produced as as an in-country guide.
Special Features of Blowkings Freeze Free Carriers
1) Lowest Fully Loaded Weight 5.5 Kgs
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4) Uses Ready to Go Technology
This website is a resource for recycling expanded polystyrene in India.
New design approved mid 2018, a 32 page color-coded booklet (by health division) translated to 15 languages currently.
Rolled out to first states in Q4 2018, will take until end of 2019 to replace...
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the proportion of
time the vaccines in the cold-chain system in India are exposed to
temperatures of < 0 or > 8 °C. METHODS: In each of 10 states,
the largest district and...
BACKGROUND: Immunizations are considered the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions employed today. While immunization coverage in India has improved dramatically in the last...
AOV with R&D support from PATH addressed the
problem of vaccine freezing by incorporating an inner
vaccine box made of engineered phase change material
(EPCM) into vaccine carrier. When used...
Objective: In India, Hepatitis B vaccination is recommended at 6 wk except for hospital-deliveries. The authors examined protection afforded by the birth dose.
Methods: A case-control study was...
Background: Strategies are needed to improve oral rotavirus vaccine (RV), which provides sub-optimal protection in developing countries. Probiotics and zinc supplementation could improve RV...
Home-based record (HBR) for India-Chattisgarh circa 2013
Home-based record (HBR) for India-Chattisgarh circa 2010
Rotavirus is the most common cause of moderate-to-severe infant diarrhoea in developing countries, resulting in enormous morbidity, mortality, and economic burden. A bovine-human reassortant...
This analysis describes an innovative and successful approach to risk identification and mitigation in relation to the switch from trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV) in the 11 countries...
The Immunization Systems Management Group (IMG) was established to coordinate and oversee objective 2 of the Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013–2018, namely, (1) introduction of ≥1...
India’s full immunisation coverage for infants is 61%. The availability of quality vaccines at session sites is a contributor to low coverage. Weaknesses in the current supply chain include lack of...
OBJECTIVE:
To raise the quality of counselling by community health volunteers resulting in improved uptake of maternal, neonatal and child health services (MNCH), an m-health application was...
Immunization supply chains in low resource settings do not always reach children with necessary vaccines. Digital information systems can enable real time visibility of inventory and improve vaccine...
ackground
While our previous work has shown that replacing existing vaccines with thermostable vaccines can relieve bottlenecks in vaccine supply chains and thus increase vaccine availability, the...
International organisations promise that we can soon hope to live in a polio-free world, but for millions of polio survivors the struggle is not over. Sophie Cousins reports. Ahmedabad,...
Despite its promise, however, the digital health landscape today is highly fragmented. The result is a myriad of digital health projects and applications that rarely reach scale and if they were to...
Improving water and sanitation is the preferred choice for cholera control in the long-term. Nevertheless, vaccination is an available too l that has been shown to be a cost‒effective option for...
Vaccine vial monitor (VVM) is now commonly used for vaccines that are included in the National Immunization Schedule in India. It helps to indicate the viability of the vaccine and of the proper...
BACKGROUND: UNICEF launched the mobile-based Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) system in Bihar in 2014 along with the state government to electronically capture information and identify gaps in the...
This document outlines a plan to develop and roll out an injection safety implementation project in India.
Strong progress continues to be made since the Health Assembly called for the worldwide eradication of poliomyelitis in 1988.1 At the time, poliomyelitis was endemic in more than 125 countries around...
During 2 September–4 October 2016, 4 sewage samples collected in Hyderabad in Telangana state between 3 August and 19 September 2016 and 1 sewage sample collected in Ahmedabad in Gujarat state on...
Cholera is transmitted through the fecal-oral route, and humans are the natural host. It is caused by the ingestion of O1 and less commonly O139 serogroups of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium and...
This is Empower School of Health\'s Annual Training Calendar for 2017 for all public health organizations who wish to attend capacity building trainings in the year 2017. They can plan their schedule...
Respiratory tract infections are prevalent among Hajj pilgrims with pneumonia being a leading cause of hospitalization. Streptococcus pneumoniae is a common pathogen isolated from patients with...
Evidence generated through research studies has guided programmatic actions and fine-tuned strategies for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). However, many gaps still persist in the...
Global Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-18 calls for the ultimate withdrawal of oral polio vaccines (OPV) from all immunization programs across the world. The phased globally...
ACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES:
India\'s Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) is one of the largest programmes in the world in terms of quantities of vaccines administered, number of beneficiaries, number...
Objective To review the data, for 1999–2013, on state-level child vaccination coverage in India and provide estimates of coverage at state
and national levels.
Methods We collated data from...
Objective To quantify the impact on mortality of offering a hypothetical set of technically feasible, high-impact interventions for maternal and child survival during India’s 2010–2013 measles...
In March 2014, India, the country with historically the highest burden of polio, was declared polio free, with no reported cases since January 2011. We estimate the health and economic benefits of...
As the polio endgame progresses, the world will increasingly rely on inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) for protection against polio (wild and
vaccine-related) and for risk mitigation during the phased...
Wild poliovirus type 2 was declared eradicated in September 2015. As part of a
globally-synchronized effort to withdraw Sabin poliovirus type 2 vaccine, India switched from use of trivalent oral...
Abstract
INTRODUCTION:
Routine immunization is a key child survival intervention. Issues related to quality of service delivery pose operational challenges in delivering effective immunization...
Tetanus is an acute, potentially fatal disease caused by a neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium tetani. Maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) are forms of generalized tetanus affecting...
INTRODUCTION:
India has one of the lowest immunization rates worldwide despite a longstanding Universal Immunization Program (UIP) that provides free childhood vaccines. This study characterizes the...
India provided one of the most challenging chapters of the worldwide smallpox eradication program. The campaign was converted from a project in which a handful of officials tried to impose their...
In January 2012, completion of polio eradication was declared a programmatic emergency for global public health by the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) (1). Despite major...