Background Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been disruptions to essential health services affecting countries of all regions. Immunization programs were impacted in multiple ways, and those disruptions extended to fixed sites, outreach sessions and vaccination campaigns. As a re...

Contexte Depuis le début de la pandémie de COVID-19, des perturbations des services de santé essentiels ont affecté des pays de toutes les régions et de tous les niveaux de revenu. Les programmes d’immunisation ont été affectés de multiples façons, et ces perturbations se sont étendues aux sites fi...

Join Sabin Vaccine Institute's Boost Community and WHO for a Special 2023 Fellowship Launch Event*Thursday, July 27 1:00 PM UTC/GMT In May 2022, the Sabin Vaccine Institute's Boost Community (Sabin) and World Health Organization (WHO) launched the COVID-19 Recovery for Routine Immunization Programs...

Storytelling for Change A Self-Paced Online Training for Immunization & Other Health Care Professionals Sign Me Up! [use invite code: sfchange2021] Deadline to Register: Monday, September 13 “The day I finished this course, I was asked to present at a national executive meeting. Using the...

Improving supply chain data visibility and data use are showing real impact in Tanzania's integrated logistics system. A study has just been published in the peer-reviewed journal Global Health: Science and Practice Global Health: Science and Practice Advance Access articles for September 6, 2017 ...

A case study has been published to share information about some of the change management and motivational strategies deployed by UNICEF and WHO to support high levels of participation in the Immunization eLearning Initiative. The case study can be helpful for learning leaders looking for ways to inc...

As supply chain professionals working in the global health sector, we have heard countless requests and statements over the years to integrate data from HMIS and LMIS tools. This is partly to streamline reporting channels and to reduce the reporting burden, and partly to attempt to compare informati...

Presently the dose of rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) which is an integral part of rabies post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is calculated based on body weight though the recommendation is to infiltrate the wound(s). This practice demands large quantities of RIG which may be un- affordable to many patients...

In cooperation with the Uganda Ministry of Health, PATH recently conducted a pilot study to document equipment failures in the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization cold chain. Due to our use of purposeful sampling to locate a subset of failed cold chain equipment in Uganda, conclusion...

Dear viewers The Academic Society Meet scheduled on 23rd March 2016 is held today as the local Govt officials were unable to attend on 23rd March 2016 due to series of IPV & Bivalent switch training. On presenting the comparative study in the Academic Society Meet, we are sharing the same w...

Many thanks to Mojtaba Haghgou for sharing this article with the forum. Vaccine cold chain functional inventory and gap analysis: Looking at all existing cold chain equipment at one go Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Iran, July 2011 By Dr. Mohsen Zahraei, EPI Manager and Mr. G. Zamani, V...