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Dear colleagues, What are the most important topics in immunization? What immunization subjects interest you most? Please let us know! The TechNet-21 team is planning new webinars for 2022, and we need your feedback to provide you with the most relevant content. Just answer the questions below, so ...

Dear colleagues,  TechNet-21 is pleased to invite you to two new Telegram channels supporting regions, countries, and partners in preparing for COVID-19 vaccine introduction. In these two spaces - one anglophone and one francophone - you will be able to share your experiences, discuss key ques...

Dear TechNet-21 community, You may have heard about National Logistics Working Groups - either because your country has one or wants to have one, or because you came across this concept in your daily job.  A national logistics working group (NLWG) is a mechanism for coordinating national immunizat...

Developed jointly by UNICEF and WHO, this brief Multi-Dose Vial Policy (MDVP) mini-course provides all partners and staff working to support immunization with a better understanding of the 2014 revision of the Multi-Dose Vial Policy and how to apply it in the real world. With the complexity of toda...

Cross-posted from the JSI website with thanks! inSupply, JSI’s regional supply chain consulting center in East Africa, in partnership with Llamasoft and the Nichols Group, recently examined the potential for employing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to deliver life-saving and other commodities with...

Choices, choices, choices – they are both the bane and blessing of our times. As immunization managers, we now have a wide array of PQS-prequalified cold chain equipment to choose from, but how do we make the right choices and get the best value for our bucks? The TechNet Product Reviews area helps ...

Cross-posted from the IAPHL forum with many thanks! Dear IAPHL members, Firstly, thanks to Victoria, Kamran, Gashaw, Wendy, and Prashant for providing their insights.They show the variety of value that GIS provides to logistics, I have categorized them into four different areas; OPERATIONAL/MONI...

Cross-posted from GIN with thanks! In October 2014, an immunization app developed by Chile’s National Immunization Programme in collaboration with a local university, was selected to represent the Ministry of Health (MOH) in a national innovation competition. The app InfoVacunas is free and prov...

This summary has been extracted from the IVAC website. For best viewing, please click here. For the first time in its history, the International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Disease (ISPPD), was held in Asia in March 2014. Nearly 1,000 scientists and public health experts from aroun...

Cross-posted from the SIGN newsletter with thanks! The Yves Chartier Award 2014 rewards an NGO, or an actor from civil society, from an African country, who will have elaborated a campaign or achieved an innovative project in the struggle against antimicrobial resistance and climate change, relat...

Cross-posted from the global.knowledge-gateway.org with thanks! Dear Friends, Could you please share this easy-to-digest message out to the West African public through your various means? It is very well done and provides people with the information they require to stop the spread of Ebola. An...

Cross-posted from the IAPHL forum with thanks! We are pleased to announce that the IAPHL website now provides you with access to a FREE online course, called Lessons in Logistics Management for Health Commodities. This is a self-directed learning course that you can take at your own pace, and all...

I wanted to draw your attention to an article, “An analysis of government immunization program expenditures in lower and lower middle income countries 2006-12,” recently published by Health Policy and Planning. Co-authors include representatives from the Sabin Vaccine Institute’s Sustainable Immuniz...

Cross-posted from GAVI CSO forum with thanks! Dear Colleagues: I would like to draw your attention to an exciting opportunity to seek funding for research projects on life-saving interventions for children under five. Please email [email protected] for additional information and feel f...

This note has been cross-posted from the GAVI CSO forum with many thanks! Dear colleagues, This week on occasion of the World Immunization Week, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has released a call for greater attention to the need for heat-stable vaccines to facilitate acc...