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WHO PQS Immunization Cold Chain Manufacturer Consultation - July, 10th 2018 - Geneva, Switzerland
On Tuesday 10th July 2018, the WHO Performance, Quality and Safety (PQS) Working Group conducted its first face-to-face technical consultation...
June 2018 VIEW-hub Report on Global Introduction and Implementation
The following report displays data and figures on the introduction status of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), rotavirus vaccine, and inactivated...
Home-based record (HBR) ownership and use of HBR recording fields in selected Kenyan communities: Results from the Kenya Missed Opportunities for Vaccination Assessment
Background Home-based records (HBRs), which take many forms, serve as an important tool for frontline health workers by providing a standardized...
Home-based record (HBR) ownership and use of HBR recording fields in selected Kenyan communities: Results from the Kenya Missed Opportunities for Vaccination Assessment
Home-based records (HBRs), which take many forms, serve as an important tool for frontline health workers by providing a standardized...
The District Health Information System (DHIS2): A literature review and meta-synthesis of its strengths and operational challenges based on the experiences of 11 countries
Health information systems offer many potential benefits for healthcare, including financial benefits and for improving the quality of patient care....
Enhancing Workforce Capacity to Improve Vaccination Data Quality, Uganda
In Uganda, vaccine dose administration data are often not available or are of insufficient quality to optimally plan, monitor, and...
Technical Report: Immunisation information systems in the EU and EEA
Results of a survey on implementation and system characteristics
Evaluating the data quality, efficiency and operational cost of MyChild Solution in Uganda: the assessment report
Considering the shortages of health workers and workload in Uganda, the paper-based system is often burdensome, time-consuming and prone to...
Assessment of MyChild Solution in The Gambia: Data quality, administrative time efficiency, operation costs, and users' experiences and perceptions.
Goal of this assessment is to assess: - Data Quality and Verification Time - Administrative Time Efficiency - Annual operating costs - Users'...
Questing the Mychild Solution in Afghanistan
An external evaluation of Data Quality, Operational Cost and Efficiency. Considering the shortages of health workers and workload in Afghanistan, the...
Vaccine products
All topics related to vaccine products, presentation and packaging; also includes temperature indicators such as vaccine vial monitors (VVMs) and vaccine delivery devices.
Yellow fever is a vector-borne disease affecting humans and non-human primates in tropical areas of Africa and South America. While...
An economic evaluation of the controlled temperature
chain approach for vaccine logistics: evidence from a study
conducted during a meningitis...
Countries’ interest in a hepatitis B vaccine licensed for the controlled temperature chain; survey results from African and Western Pacific...
Utilisation du MenAfriVac™ (vaccin contre la méningite A) en chaîne à températtrôlée (CTC) pendant les campagnes - Guide d'adaptation et...Yellow Fever in Africa: estimating the burden of disease and impact of mass vaccination from outbreak and serological data
An economic evaluation of the controlled temperature chain approach for vaccine logistics: evidence from a study conducted during a meningitis A vaccine campaign in Togo
Countries’ interest in a hepatitis B vaccine licensed for the controlled temperature chain; survey results from African and Western Pacific regions
Utilisation du MenAfriVac™ (vaccin contre la méningite A) en chaîne à températtrôlée (CTC) pendant les campagnes - Guide d'adaptation et guide du formateur
Cold chain equipment
All topics related to equipment used to support the immunization cold chain, such as refrigerators, freezers, insulated containers, water-packs, and temperature monitoring devices; covers equipment selection, procurement, installation, repair, maintenance and performance.
On Tuesday 10th July 2018, the WHO Performance, Quality and Safety (PQS) Working Group conducted its first face-to-face technical consultation...
This module of the WHO Vaccine Management Handbook (VMH) is a component of the World Health Organization/United Nations Children’s Fund...
Les objectifs généraux de ce guide sont les suivants :
1. Accroître le niveau de sensibilisation et contribuer au renforcement des...
This guidance's objectives are to:
1. Raise the level of awareness and contribute to capacity building on issues associated with decommissioning...WHO PQS Immunization Cold Chain Manufacturer Consultation - July, 10th 2018 - Geneva, Switzerland
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to develop a repair and maintenance system for cold chain equipment - WHO IVB 17.05
Déclassement et élimination sécurisée des équipements de chaîne de froid
Decommissioning and safe disposal of cold chain equipment
Supply chain and logistics
All topics related to immunization supply chain and logistics, including vaccine forecasting and supply planning, distribution systems, vaccine management, vaccine wastage, and waste management.
An economic evaluation of the controlled temperature
chain approach for vaccine logistics: evidence from a study
conducted during a meningitis...
Countries’ interest in a hepatitis B vaccine licensed for the controlled temperature chain; survey results from African and Western Pacific...
CTC Frequently Asked Questions
Utilisation du MenAfriVac™ (vaccin contre la méningite A) en chaîne à températtrôlée (CTC) pendant les campagnes - Guide d'adaptation et...An economic evaluation of the controlled temperature chain approach for vaccine logistics: evidence from a study conducted during a meningitis A vaccine campaign in Togo
Countries’ interest in a hepatitis B vaccine licensed for the controlled temperature chain; survey results from African and Western Pacific regions
CTC FAQs
Utilisation du MenAfriVac™ (vaccin contre la méningite A) en chaîne à températtrôlée (CTC) pendant les campagnes - Guide d'adaptation et guide du formateur
Service delivery
All topics related to the delivery of immunization services, including routine and campaign delivery services as well as injection safety.
Despite the uniqueness of each country situation, some commonalities emerged. Inequalities by child’s sex tended to be minimal or non-existent,...
A public health emergency operations centre (PHEOC) integrates traditional public health services and other functions into an emergency management model....
Background: Routine childhood immunization coverage has been low in northern Nigeria. While local authorities and international partners have been working...
BACKGROUND: Immunizations are considered the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions employed today. While immunization coverage in India has...
Explorations of inequality: Childhood Immunization
Framework for a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre
Parents’ preferences for interventions to improve childhood immunization uptake in northern Nigeria
An evaluation of immunization services, using the reaching every district criteria, in two districts of Gujarat, India
Immunization information systems
All topics related to information systems used to support immunization programmes, including electronic immunization registries, logistics management information systems (LMIS), geographic information systems (GIS), integrated health management information systems, and immunization coverage monitoring (administrative and survey data).
Background
Home-based records (HBRs), which take many forms, serve as an important tool for frontline health workers by providing a standardized...
Home-based records (HBRs), which take many forms, serve as an important tool for frontline health workers by providing a standardized...
Health information systems offer many potential benefits for healthcare, including financial benefits and for improving the quality of patient care....
In Uganda, vaccine dose administration data are often not available or are of insufficient quality to optimally plan, monitor, and...Home-based record (HBR) ownership and use of HBR recording fields in selected Kenyan communities: Results from the Kenya Missed Opportunities for Vaccination Assessment
Home-based record (HBR) ownership and use of HBR recording fields in selected Kenyan communities: Results from the Kenya Missed Opportunities for Vaccination Assessment
The District Health Information System (DHIS2): A literature review and meta-synthesis of its strengths and operational challenges based on the experiences of 11 countries
Enhancing Workforce Capacity to Improve Vaccination Data Quality, Uganda
Programme management
All topics related to immunization programme management, including planning, budgeting, financing, performance monitoring, and human resources.
The following report displays data and figures on the introduction status of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), rotavirus vaccine, and inactivated...
Home-based records (HBRs), which take many forms, serve as an important tool for frontline health workers by providing a standardized...
This document provides guidance to countries on how to develop a continuous
immunization supply chain (iSC) improvement plan. Its purpose is...
Zimbabwe Provincial Macroplanning Tool for HPVJune 2018 VIEW-hub Report on Global Introduction and Implementation
Home-based record (HBR) ownership and use of HBR recording fields in selected Kenyan communities: Results from the Kenya Missed Opportunities for Vaccination Assessment
WHO UNICEF Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) – How to develop a Continuous Improvement Plan (cIP)? Guidance Note
Zimbabwe Provincial Macroplanning Tool for HPV
Global initiatives
All topics related to immunization programme management, including planning, budgeting, financing, performance monitoring, and human resources.
Home-based records (HBRs), which take many forms, serve as an important tool for frontline health workers by providing a standardized...
The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) Monitoring and Accountability Framework includes an indicator to reach 90% national vaccination coverage and...
Global efforts to eradicate polio began in 1988, and four of the six World Health Organization (WHO) regions currently have...
The Global Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (GCCPE/GCC) met in February 2018. It noted that although no WPV...Home-based record (HBR) ownership and use of HBR recording fields in selected Kenyan communities: Results from the Kenya Missed Opportunities for Vaccination Assessment
Definition and use of “valid” district level vaccination coverage to monitor Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) achievement: evidence for revisiting the district indicator
Surveillance to track progress toward polio eradication — Worldwide, 2016–2017
Report from the Seventeenth Meeting Global Commission for the Certification of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis