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Vaccine Storage & Handling Toolkit

This toolkit provides information, recommendations, and resources to assist you in properly storing and handling your vaccine supply. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vaccine Storage and Handling Toolkit brings together best practices from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) General Best Practice. Guidelines for Immunization,* product information from vaccine manufacturers, and results of scientific studies. Implementing these best practices and recommendations will help protect your patients, safeguard your vaccine supply, and avoid the unnecessary costs of revaccinating patients and replacing expensive vaccines.

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2024

Type

Tool

Categories

  • Supply chain & logistics

Organisations

  • United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC)

Tags

  • Vaccine supply

By EVM criterion

  • E2 Temperature management
  • E4 Facility infrastructure and equipment
  • E6 Stock management
  • E7 Distribution of vaccines and dry goods
  • R4 Human resources management

Topic references

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TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Handbook for Vaccine & Cold Chain Handlers, 2nd edition, India 2016Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India2016GuidanceEnglish
Management of temperature excursions with Janssen Covid-19 vaccineNational Department of Health, Republic of South Africa2021GuidanceEnglish
Responding to errors in vaccine storage, handling and administrationUK Health Security Agency2022GuidanceEnglish
The use of vaccines that have been temporarily stored outside the recommended temperature rangeUK Health Security Agency2019GuidanceEnglish
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to monitor temperatures in the vaccine supply chainWorld Health Organization (WHO)2015GuidanceFrench
Vaccine Storage & Handling ToolkitUS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)2024ToolEnglish