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- 2020
This page provides a list of key immunization supply chain (ISC) planning tools created by the WHO Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). In addition, a list of core reference material...
- 2020
Webinar: New guidance for managing health care waste produced by your immunisation program
August 20, 2020, 9:00 a.m. EST / 3:00 p.m. CEST (Geneva)
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- 2020
As most of you know, healthcare waste (HCW) is a growing problem and will likely continue until we have developed materials that can fully breakdown into the environment without harm. Until this...
- 2020
As the global healthcare system expands, including the increasing success of immunization efforts, this inevitably leads to a growing amount of healthcare waste (HCW). Certain types of HCW can pose...
- 2019
One month ago, the LANCET (ScienceDirectRef: “Expanding safe waste management to public health systems” https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32622-9), January 2019, Elsevier Ltd.) published a...
- 2017
This is the fifth and last topic in my six-part Vaccine Supply Chain Futures series focused on the potential to address safety issues related to the management of sharps waste including syringe and...
- 2017
Immunization programs in low-income countries are facing the most ambitious targets of the last four decades: reach every child with existing and many new vaccines. The original immunization supply...
- 2015
This posting is one of four, each discussing a different indicator. This post discusses vaccine utilisation efficiency. Another efficiency indicator measures the level of vaccine administered...
- 2015
I hope that you will disagree with me and tell me that medical waste disposal systems in low-to-middle income countries have advanced dramatically in the last ten years. But I have the impression is...
- 2011
[i]by Yves Chartier, WHO, and Olga Popova, Crucell[/i]
Worldwide immunization programs have had an enormously positive impact on health and health care since 1974 when the World Health Assembly...
- 2010
As a result of our posting on Tech Net we were made aware of a technique for melting syringes and suspending the needles in the innards of a plastic block formed by the melting plastic syringes. This...
- 2010
[i]Many thanks to Ashley Iwanaga for sending in the latest UNDP GEF Healthcare Waste Management Project report.
Dear Colleagues,
The UNDP GEF Project on Healthcare Waste Management is excited...
- 2009
The Lagos State Waste Management Authority organised their fourth Medical Waste Summit, which was held on 26 and 27 October, 2009 at the National Arts Theatre Iganmu, Lagos with the theme...
- 2009
The Supply Chain Management Team within the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT is pleased to announce the availability of a new technical document, Logistics of Health Care Waste Management
Information and...
- 2009
[b]Seychelles injection safety and waste management assessment 25th June-7th July2009[/b]
Seychelles is a multi-ethnic tri-lingual state with its origin from three continents: Africa, Asia and...
- 2009
Hello,
I would like to enquire if someone has worked on setting up a manufacturing plant for safety boxes in Africa. If such an attempt has been made, what have the outcomes been. I am assuming the...
- 2009
Dear Colleagues,
Below please find information on newly devised incineratorfor healthcare waste and immunization waste developed by healthcare wasteexpert in Tanzania.
The incinerator has the...
- 2009
Hello,
With the advent of the new Pneumococcal and Rotavirus vaccines packaged in single dose pre-filled glass syringes, we are likely to be facing a complication in waste management. It's my...
- 2009
POST 01421E: SYRINGE MELTERS
FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01406E & 01411E
24 APRIL 2009
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Joanie Robertson responds to Hans Everts’s questions...
- 2009
POST 01411E: SYRINGE MELTER
FOLLOW-UP ON [url=http://listserv.technet21.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0903&L=TECHNET21E&T=0&O=D&F=&S=&P=8619]POST 01406E[/url]
2 APRIL...
- 2009
POST 01406E: EVALUATION OF SYRINGE MELTER
22 MARCH 2009
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Dear TechNet moderator,
I am forwarding a report of an evaluation of a syringe melter...
- 2008
POST 01307E: HEALTHCARE WASTE MANAGEMENT: NEED FOR TRAINING/SUPERVISION
FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS [url=http://listserv.technet21.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0807&L=TECHNET21E&T=0&O=D&F=&S=&P=8178]01295E[/url],...
- 2008
POST 01305E: HEALTHCARE WASTE MANAGEMENT: WEIGHTED DECISION-MAKING APPROACH
FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS [url=http://listserv.technet21.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0807&L=TECHNET21E&T=0&O=D&F=&S=&P=8178]01295E[/url]...
- 2008
POST 01302E: SYRINGE MELTING DEVICES
FOLLOW-UP ON POST [url=http://listserv.technet21.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0806&L=TECHNET21E&T=0&O=D&F=&S=&P=10036]01285E[/url]
10 AUGUST 2008...
- 2008
POST 01296E: BETTER TO HAVE SOME WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM THAN NONE AT ALL
FOLLOW-UP ON POST...
- 2008
POST 01286E: WASTE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES/SOLAR TECHNOLOGY
FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS [url=http://listserv.technet21.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0805&L=TECHNET21E&T=0&O=D&F=&S=&P=10704]01273E[/url],...
- 2008
POST 01285E: REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF IMMUNIZATION SERVICES
FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS [url=http://listserv.technet21.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0805&L=TECHNET21E&T=0&O=D&F=&S=&P=10704]01273E[/url],...
- 2008
POST 01284E: CLIMATE CHANGE/PLASTIC AND PACKAGING
FOLLOW-UP ON...
- 2008
POST 01222E: SMALL-SCALE INCINERATORS FOR SAFETY BOXES 5FEBRUARY 2008
Follow-up on post: POST 01220E
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In response to the...
- 2008
POST 01220E: WANTED-SMALL-SCALE INCINERATORS FOR SAFETY BOXES 31 JANUARY 2008
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Toryalai Hart writes in with a query for SSIs that...
- 2007
POST 01180E : WASTE MANAGEMENT
2 November 2007
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Two documents are now available on-line on the WHO Healthcare Waste Management website.
"WHO core...
- 2007
POST 01121E : WASTE MANAGEMENT
Follow-up on Post 01111E
13 July 2007
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Modibo Dicko's message generated three contributions. The first is from [log in...
- 2007
POST 01111E : WASTE MANAGEMENT 23 June 2007
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[log in to unmask]">Modibo [log in to unmask]"> Dicko, from WHO/AFRO, shares two interesting documents on waste...
- 2007
POST 01077E : WASTE MANAGEMENT REPORT
12 April 2007
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Carib Nelson (mailto:[email protected]) from PATH
is sending the following...
- 2007
POST 01064E : WHO HEALTH CARE WASTE WEBSITE
12 March 2007
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I have the pleasure to announce that the health care waste web site
at WHO has today on...
- 2006
POST 00886E : NEW DOCUMENT ON WASTE MANAGEMENT
8 February 2006
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Yves Chartier (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO, is submitting the following document...
- 2005
POST 00849E : MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT : AN EXAMPLE
31 October 2005
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Carib Nelson (mailto:[email protected]) is sending a document describing the
model of...
- 2005
POST 00846E : DESTRUCTION OF PLASTIC SYRINGES
Follow-up on Posts 00819E, 00824E, 00830E, 00832E, 00835E and 00842E
23 October 2005
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Godiskine...
- 2005
POST 00842E : DESTRUCTION OF PLASTIC SYRINGES
Follow-up on Posts 00819E, 00824E, 00830E, 00832E and 00835E
10 October 2005
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This posting contains five...
- 2005
POST 00839E : COST OF SHARPS WASTE MANAGEMENT
Follow-up on Post 00831E
3 October 2005
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Ville Lehto (mailto:[email protected]) from Finland...
- 2005
POST 00835E : DESTRUCTION OF PLASTIC SYRINGES
Follow-up on Posts 00819E, 00824E, 00830E and 00832E
20 September 2005
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Ville Lehto...
- 2005
POST 00832E : DESTRUCTION OF PLASTIC SYRINGES
Follow-up on Posts 00819E, 00824E and 00830E
8 September 2005
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This posting contains three further...
- 2005
POST 00831E : COST OF SHARPS WASTE MANAGEMENT
5 September 2005
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Bob Chen (mailto:[email protected]) from the United States request information
about the...
- 2005
POST 00830E : DESTRUCTION OF PLASTIC SYRINGES
Follow-up on Posts 00819E and 00824E
3 September 2005
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This posting contains four contributions. Although...
- 2005
POST 00824E : DESTRUCTION OF PLASTIC SYRINGES
Follow-up on Post 00819E
17 August 2005
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A few contributions were received in response to Godiskine...
- 2005
POST 00819E : DESTRUCTION OF PLASTIC SYRINGES
4 August 2005
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Godiskine Attemene (mailto:godiskine[email protected]) from Côte d'Ivoire asks
some specific...
- 2005
POST 00811E : HEALTH CARE WASTE MANAGEMENT 16 July 2005
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Yves Chartier (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO informs us that the
health care waste management...
- 2005
POST 00804E : UNIVERSAL SAFETY BOX
Follow-up on Post 00794E
23 June 2005
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Ville Lehto (mailto:[email protected]) from Finland replies to...