Guidance

Controlled temperature chain: Strategic Roadmap for Priority Vaccines 2017-2020

The “controlled temperature chain" (CTC) is a specific short-term approach to vaccine management that allows vaccines to be kept at temperatures above the long-term +2° to +8° C storage condition for a limited period of time under monitored and controlled conditions appropriate to the stability of the antigen.

The CTC Strategic Roadmap for Priority Vaccines addresses supply and programmatic issues, aiming for CTC priority vaccines to become licensed for CTC use and facilitating uptake of the CTC vaccine delivery approach.  This roadmap focuses primarily on four vaccine types selected by the Working Group (CTC-WG) and endorsed by Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC) in February 2017.

In 2020, the Strategic Roadmap for CTC Priority Vaccines was reviewed by the CTC Working Group. Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) was added as an additional priority vaccine and the CTC-WG confirmed that the commitments outlined in the Roadmap are still relevant and valid for an extended time period through 2024, in view of the many targets still not being met.

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2018

Type

Guidance

Categories

  • Programme management

Organisations

  • World Health Organization (WHO)

Tags

  • Controlled temperature chain (CTC)
  • Vaccine management

Topic references

EPI-CORE-CTC

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Background material and other CTC resourcesWorld Health Organization (WHO)RepositoryFrench
Controlled temperature chain: Strategic Roadmap for Priority Vaccines 2017-2020World Health Organization (WHO)2018GuidanceEnglish
Countries’ interest in a hepatitis B vaccine licensed for the controlled temperature chain; survey results from African and Western Pacific regionsDörte Petit, Carole Tevi-Benissan, Joseph Woodring, Karen Hennessey, Anna-Lea Kahn2017Journal articleEnglish
ECTC infographicWorld Health Organization (WHO)Poster/infographicEnglish
The controlled temperature chain (CTC): frequently asked questionsWorld Health Organization (WHO)2016GuidanceEnglish
What is a controlled temperature chain? (CTC) - InfographicWorld Health Organization (WHO)2015Poster/infographicEnglish

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