This video highlights the importance of investing in health supply chains to ensure that medicines and other health products reach the people who need them. The video was produced by the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, managed by JSI.

Monitoring a stock ledger can help you avoid stock-outs or overstocking. Find out how to keep a record of the vaccines that move in and out of your district or health facility. Know your minimum stock level for each vaccine.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

You need a map! Having a current and accurate map can help you plan the delivery of vaccination services, because it shows you all the communities you serve, how many infants and pregnant women are in each community, how far away they are from you, and which mode of transport is required to reach them.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

Spare-parts stock records help managers reorder parts in the right quantity and have the parts they need to keep cold-chain equipment running well. Learn how to keep a spare-parts record, so that you will have the parts and the information you need.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

Learn what equipment and spare parts should be in your cold chain by keeping maintenance and repair records. Learn how to record the right information and analyze that data, so you can better understand how well your cold chain is performing.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

What should you do about coverage problems? Learn how to use the monthly immunization report to identify high-risk areas or those areas where immunization performance may be weak. Find corrective strategies and activities that will lead to increased immunization coverage rates.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

Before you assume that there is a problem with service delivery, first check the quality of the coverage data. If your data on the number of vaccine doses administered is reliable, you will be able to see coverage trends. With good data, you can make better decisions about what to focus on and how to improve your coverage.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

Learn about the four different methods for gathering information and investigating why a coverage problem exists. This video will help you resolve facility coverage problems.

District maps contain the essential information you need to plan all the activities to support immunization efforts in your district. Learn to create a district map to monitor coverage and determine the necessary amount of vaccines and supplies.

James Vesper reviews the critical aspects of documents, records and record management. Documents like procedures, protocols, methods, and specifications provide instructions so people can perform tasks and make decisions safely, effectively, compliantly, and consistently. Records, such as batch manufacturing records, cleaning logs, and laboratory data sheets and notebooks provide evidence that actions were taken and decisions were (hopefully) made in keeping with procedures and GMP expectations. Reports, another type of documentation, provide specific information on a particular topic (like an investigation or one aspect of product development) in a formal, standardized way.

Johns Hopkins University study gives compelling evidence that investing in immunisation is one of the best public health buys.

Gavi’s Deputy CEO Anuradha Gupta gives the lowdown on how a little-known acronym – PEF (Partners' Engagement Framework) – has pioneered new ways of working with development organisations.

Dr Rachel Green, Dancing Gecko Training, discusses how motivational interviewing can improve vaccine uptake. She led a workshop on this topic at the Fondation Merieux vaccine acceptance conference in Annecy, France.

Looking for online information on vaccine safety? The WHO Vaccine Safety Net is a network of websites with more than 50 members in 15 languages worldwide.

Bonaria is being treated for cancer. She is vulnerable to infections - that's why her family is urging others to have all recommended vaccines.
'The risk for people undergoing cancer treatment is to contract common illnesses that may prove to be very dangerous or even deadly,’ explains her husband, Giorgio.
Giorgio's photo of his wife and daughter won the 2017 Vaccines Today Communication Challenge.
Find out the backstory in this short video.

Eugenijus Laurinaitis, University of Vilnius, discusses how health professionals can be given the skills they need to engage with people who have questions about immunisation

Removing barriers to access will allow you to immunize more infants and pregnant women. In this video, we examine some of the most common reasons for access problems, along with some solutions.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com

PATH's Meningitis Vaccine Project director Dr. Marc LaForce describes the relief mothers in sub-Saharan Africa feel when the rainy season begins, putting an end to seasonal meningitis epidemics.

PATH's Meningitis Vaccine Project director Dr. Marc LaForce describes how PATH and the World Health Organization became a virtual vaccine company when they agreed to produce a meningitis A vaccine for Africa at less than US$0.50 per dose. "We didn't have a plant, we didn't have intellectual property, we didn't even have polysaccharide. ..the challenge was to translate that nothingness to a product..."

More than two billion people lack adequate access to essential medical products, often due to challenging terrain and gaps in infrastructure. Because of this, over 2.9 million children under age five die every year. And up to 150,000 pregnancy-related deaths could be avoided each year if mothers had reliable access to safe blood.

Through a partnership with the Government of Rwanda, Zipline will deliver all blood products for twenty hospitals and health centers starting this summer, improving access to healthcare for millions of Rwandans.

PATH's Meningitis Vaccine Project director Dr. Marc LaForce tells the story of Jean-François, a promising young student who survived meningitis, but with hearing loss. The story motivates LaForce to press on when times are difficult. Find out more about this important global health milestone on the PATH website: http://www.path.org/menafrivac/index.php.

For children in Burkina Faso, the first shots of a new meningitis vaccine on December 6, 2010, mark a day they no longer have to live in fear of meningitis epidemics.

This 4-minute animated video emphasizes the difficulty and importance of maintaining proper temperatures in the vaccine cold chain. The risk of exposing vaccines to freezing temperatures are now known to be significant. These risks can be reduced through health worker training, temperature monitoring, investing in new freeze-safe cold chain equipment, and in vaccine formulations that can withstand cooler temperatures.

Fifty years have passed since the United States government pledged its political, financial, and technical resources to end smallpox—catalyzing the international effort, sparking CDC’s work as a global leader, and accelerating decades of vaccine innovation.
Join PATH in celebrating the impact of US government efforts in immunization around the world.

As a district manager, you should make sure that you get reliable, timely and complete monthly reports from each of your health facilities. Learn what criteria to use to evaluate the reports and what to do if there are problems.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

A chat about polio eradication in Pakistan with Chris Maher, Manager of WHO’s polio eradication efforts in the Eastern Mediterranean

The Controlled Temperature Chain, CTC, is an innovative approach to vaccine management allowing vaccines to be kept at temperatures outside of the traditional cold chain of +2°C to +8°C for a limited period of time under monitored and controlled conditions, as appropriate to the stability of the antigen. This episode gives an outlook on the options for countries and what manufacturers can do to support countries.

Let’s look at a monthly immunization report and fill it out together. This data is essential for determining which health facilities, districts, or regions n...

Some level of vaccine wastage in inevitable. So how can you be sure you have the right amount of vaccines, to avoid stock-outs and overstocking? Learn how to...

This training addresses how to prepare vaccine from a multidose vial (MDV). A MDV contains more than one dose of vaccine. CDC recommends that providers draw ...

Zambia is committed to building a smarter country with innovative tools to help improve the health and well-being of its people. The BID Initiative is one ex...

Painting a picture of the benefits of polio vaccination. Adding creativity and colour to polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan.

Despite global healthcare innovation, some communities remain out of reach. Village Reach works toward a world where all communities, no matter where they ar...

Kevin O'Donnell reviews the role of VVM and how it can be the answer to increase access and ensure quality of vaccine was not compromised due to unacceptable...

PATH is proud to partner with The World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa to highlight the commitment of African leaders closing the immunizat...

UNICEF has developed a video to show you just what it takes to deliver two drops of the polio vaccine to a child in the most remote corners of the world.

Health workers can be vaccine heroes and help keep measles and rubella out of their communities by never missing an opportunity to vaccinate and immediately ...

Beyond the Data Beyond brings you "take home" messages for you to use in your practice, in your classroom and in your home. In this video, Lauri E. Markowitz...

Burundi became on December 16, 2013 the 19th GAVI eligible country to introduce in its routine immunisation programme antirotavirus vaccine. Rotavirus is the...

Dr Melissa Stockwell, Columbia University, discusses the role of text messages in encouraging adolescents and pregnancy women to have recommended vaccines. S...

Global public health worker and communications expert Christine McNab illuminates the story of how she combined her passions and partnered with the Gates Foundation to create what might be the most artistically crafted vaccine promotion campaign ever.

Since 1990, the world has saved 122 million children's lives. We can save more in the years ahead. Learn more: www.gatesletter.com

In 1916 the first U.S. outbreak of polio happened in New York City. Thousands died or were paralyzed as this mysterious disease spread quickly and unchalleng...

In order to secure a polio-free world for all future generations, we must eradicate all strains of the virus. Learn about wild polioviruses and vaccine-deriv...

Learn about the switch from trivalent bivalent oral polio vaccine in April 2016 - the biggest, globally-synchronised project in the history of vaccines - and...

Learn about the safety nets being put in place to make sure that the phased withdrawal of the oral polio vaccine will speed up our journey towards a polio-fr...

An important part of securing a polio-free world is making sure that laboratories and vaccine manufacturing facilities handle and store polioviruses safely a...