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- 2020
Please join us for a webinar on vaccine vial monitor (VVM)-based vaccine management, on the occasion of publishing of “The Book of VVM: Yesterday-today-and-tomorrow” by Umit Kartoglu. The webinar...
- 2018
The controlled temperature chain (CTC) is an innovative approach to vaccine management that allows vaccines to be kept at temperatures outside of the traditional cold chain of +2°C to +8°C for a...
- 2017
PATH is pleased to present “Building Next Generation Immunization Supply Chains” a special edition of Vaccine journal which brings together evidence from global experts in 31 articles...
- 2016
Dear all,
I would like to share with you a position statement from the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC) on the Controlled Temperature Chain (CTC) and the use of vaccines out of cold...
- 2016
Immunization outreach services depend on a protective, affordable and efficient supply chain to benefit rather than obstruct outreach operations. Four potential cold-chain solutions are on offer but...
- 2015
Hi all,
I am quite new to the CTC adventure.
After reading the second draft of the WHO CTC guideline, now ECTC (I also wen through the first version and the discussion in Langen and Ottawa),...
- 2015
I’m delighted to announce the online release of WHO’s new 3-part film on the Controlled Temperature Chain (CTC) produced by IVB/EPI in both English and French.
This 3-episode film on CTC serves...
- 2015
How about a Buffered Temperature Chain (BTC)?
Vaccines which are highly thermally stable can be distributed in the Controlled Temperature Chain (CTC). To be incorporated into the CTC the vaccines...
- 2015
A new infographic that explains "What is a controlled temperature chain (CTC)?" is available on the WHO...
- 2014
In recognition that an increasing number of vaccines are able to tolerate temperatures well above those officially stated on their labels, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been supporting...
- 2014
Last week marked the second occasion that a [b]Controlled Temperature Chain (CTC) [/b]has been officially used with a vaccine licensed, pre-qualified, and labelled accordingly. [b]Mauritania [/b]has...
- 2014
The results of a study conducted by Epicentre /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) assessing the immunogenicity and safety of a tetanus toxoid vaccine have been recently published in...
- 2014
A couple of months ago, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) produced a package of materials in support of their call for wider use of existing vaccines in the “controlled temperature chain” or CTC....
World Immunization Week: MSF calling for heat-stable vaccines to help reach the one in five children
- 2014
[i]This note has been cross-posted from the GAVI CSO forum with many thanks![/i]
Dear colleagues,
This week on occasion of the World Immunization Week, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors...
- 2013
The need to keep vaccines in a 2°C to 8°C cold chain is a constraining factor for many immunization campaigns due to limited storage capacity and/or limited ice pack freezing capacity;...
- 2013
by Dan Brigden, PATH
In November 2012, the first immunization campaign to use a controlled temperature chain (CTC) took place in Banikoara in northern Benin....
- 2013
by Simona Zipursky, PATH; Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey, WHO/AFRO; Olivier Ronveaux, WHO/AFRO; Sylvestre Tiendrebeogo, Consultant
In November 2012, the first immunization campaign to use a controlled...
- 2010
[url=http://www.timeschennai.com/index.php?mod=article&cat=General&article=47839]http://www.timesche nnai.com/ index.php? mod=article&cat=General&article=47839[/url]
Now vaccines can be stored at...
- 2009
[i]by Michel Zaffran, WHO; Julie Milstien, consultant; and Modibo Dicko, WHO [/i]
It has long been known that...
- 2009
Today, most vaccines are licensed for storage between 2-8°C, regardless of their true stability. While there are some vaccines that do need to be kept at this specific temperature range, studies...
- 2009
[b]Oral Polio Delivered Safely Without Icepacks in Recent Study[/b]
[i]by Ariane Halm, [url=http://www.epiet.org/]EPIET[/url] (European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training), and Olivier...
- 2004
POST 00724E : COOL TECHNOLOGY : THE END OF THE COLD-CHAIN?
8 November 2004
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Below is an article published in "The Economist". The delay in posting it
was...