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Training for Mid-level Managers: Evaluate Vaccination Coverage
The first WHO vaccination coverage survey reference manual, circa 1979. Citation: World Health Organization. Training for mid-level managers. Evaluate vaccination coverage....
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to calculate vaccine volumes and cold chain capacity requirements - WHO IVB 17.06
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to calculate vaccine volumes and cold chain capacity requirements
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to develop a repair and maintenance system for cold chain equipment - WHO IVB 17.05
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to develop a repair and maintenance system for cold chain equipment
WHO IVB 15.04
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to monitor temperatures in the vaccine supply chain
WHO IVB 15.03
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to use passive containers and coolant-packs for vaccine transport and outreach operations
WHO Vaccination Coverage Cluster Surveys: Reference Manual
Survey manuel developed by WHO with a step by step guide and detailed annexes
Framework for a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre
A public health emergency operations centre (PHEOC) integrates traditional public health services and other functions into an emergency management model....
Déclassement et élimination sécurisée des équipements de chaîne de froid
Les objectifs généraux de ce guide sont les suivants : 1. Accroître le niveau de sensibilisation et contribuer au renforcement des...
Decommissioning and safe disposal of cold chain equipment
This guidance's objectives are to: 1. Raise the level of awareness and contribute to capacity building on issues associated with decommissioning...
Evaluation of an outside-the-cold-chain vaccine delivery strategy in remote regions of western China
Vaccines are temperature-sensitive biological products. Exposure to heat shortens a vaccine's shelf life,1 while freezing vaccines that should not...
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.
According to manufacturers, inactivated poliovirus vaccines (IPVs) are freeze sensitive and require storage between 2°C and 8°C, whereas oral poliovirus...
This paper summarizes evaluation of whether DPT and DPT-IPV from Connaught Laboratories Ltd. are visually altered by freezing in response...
Neonatal tetanus (NT) is a major cause of mortality in developing countries, with over 400,000 deaths estimated to occur annually....
An estimated 400,000 deaths occur annually from neonatal tetanus (NT). In 1989 WHO adopted the goal of eliminating NT as...Assessing the potency and immunogenicity of inactivated poliovirus vaccine after exposure to freezing temperatures
Effects of freezing on DPT and DPT-IPV vaccines, adsorbed
Performance and potency of tetanus toxoid: implications for eliminating neonatal tetanus
Factors affecting the immunogenicity and potency of tetanus toxoid: implications for the elimination of neonatal and non-neonatal tetanus as public health problems
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.
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to develop a repair and maintenance system for cold chain equipment
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...
Vaccines are temperature-sensitive biological products. Exposure to heat shortens a vaccine's shelf life,1 while freezing vaccines that should not...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
Evaluation of an outside-the-cold-chain vaccine delivery strategy in remote regions of western China
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.
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to calculate vaccine volumes and cold chain capacity requirements
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to monitor temperatures in the vaccine supply chain
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to use passive containers and coolant-packs for vaccine transport and outreach operations
Vaccine exposure to temperatures below recommended ranges in the cold chain may decrease vaccine potency of freeze-sensitive vaccines leading to...Vaccine Management Handbook: How to calculate vaccine volumes and cold chain capacity requirements - WHO IVB 17.06
WHO IVB 15.04
WHO IVB 15.03
Is freezing in the vaccine cold chain an ongoing issue? A literature review
Service delivery
All topics related to the delivery of immunization services, including routine and campaign delivery services as well as injection safety.
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...
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the costs of routine immunization (RI) services in China in 2015, to provide objective data relevant to...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
Routine immunization services costs and financing in China, 2015
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).
Survey manuel developed by WHO with a step by step guide and detailed annexes
To improve the well-being of the population and bridge gaps in health service delivery, it is necessary to guarantee access...
This document is designed to support EPI managers and their teams in the implementation of EIR-related information systems, using the...
The classification of digital health interventions (DHIs) categorizes the different ways in which digital and mobile technologies are being used...WHO Vaccination Coverage Cluster Surveys: Reference Manual
Tools for monitoring the coverage of integrated public health interventions. Vaccination and deworming of soil-transmitted helminthiasis
Electronic Immunization Registry: Practical Considerations for Planning, Development, Implementation and Evaluation
Classification of digital health interventions v1.0 A shared language to describe the uses of digital technology for health
Programme management
All topics related to immunization programme management, including planning, budgeting, financing, performance monitoring, and human resources.
The first WHO vaccination coverage survey reference manual, circa 1979.
Citation: World Health Organization. Training for mid-level managers. Evaluate vaccination coverage....
To the editor: The paper by Francis and associates (1) in this issue shows the safety and efficacy of inactivated...
Recombinant hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) particles derived from Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were stored at various conditions for...
Home based record for HPV vaccination (3 dose) MozambiqueTraining for Mid-level Managers: Evaluate Vaccination Coverage
Hepatitis B vaccine
Physical, chemical and immunological stability of CHO-derived hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) particles
HPV vaccination card
Global initiatives
All topics related to immunization programme management, including planning, budgeting, financing, performance monitoring, and human resources.
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...
Like any milestone, WHO's 70th anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect on its past trajectory and chart the challenges ahead....
Measles, a vaccine-preventable illness, is one of the most infectious diseases known to man. In 2015, an estimated 134,200 measles...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
WHOse health agenda? 70 years of struggle over WHO's mandate
Measles and Rubella Global Strategic Plan 2012-2020 midterm review report: Background and summary