Tool
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
CC_EMERGENCY_SM
Title | Author | Year | Type | Language |
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Handbook for Vaccine & Cold Chain Handlers, 2nd edition, India 2016 | Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India | 2016 | Guidance | English |
Management of temperature excursions with Janssen Covid-19 vaccine | National Department of Health, Republic of South Africa | 2021 | Guidance | English |
Responding to errors in vaccine storage, handling and administration | UK Health Security Agency | 2022 | Guidance | English |
The use of vaccines that have been temporarily stored outside the recommended temperature range | UK Health Security Agency | 2019 | Guidance | English |
Vaccine Management Handbook: How to monitor temperatures in the vaccine supply chain | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2015 | Guidance | French |
Vaccine Storage & Handling Toolkit | US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 2024 | Tool | English |