As you may know, immunization was on the agenda at the World Health Assembly in May. This year, PATH listened specifically for references to immunization supply chains and logistics. A few official statements mentioned supply chain, cold chain or logistics, but usually in a list of issues to be add...

The percent difference between the gross refrigerator (ILRs and SDDs) volumes quoted in the PQS Catalogue and the net vaccine storage volume varies from 29.6% to 88.6 %. This is a wide variation for front opening fridges, due to space for air-circulation. Increasingly, new models of ILR and SDD are...

Thanks to all the organizers of the TechNet Conference for creating a space to share new ideas and experiences and inspire each of us as we continue to work in vaccines. A new blog is posted here with some of the key themes that were mentioned on the last summary day:http://www.villagereach.org/2015...

Dear TechNet members: As a public-private partnership, Gavi believes the private sector can play a key role in advancing its mission to save children's lives and protecting people’s health by increasing access to immunisation. To helpus identify where and how the private sector can best support it...

We launched the above study to prove once again that through a "Simplest one page tool and userfriendly approach of Learning by doing and working together" it is possible to achieve and sustain very high coverage >90% within 20 weeks in a planning unit area and within one year in a District, saving ...

TechNet 2015 Day 3 tackled Managing the System: Human Resources for Supply Chain Management and Data for Management. These two themes are closely linked.People are the sources of data, and people must also have the skills and capacity to use that data for management decisions. In well performing sup...

On day 4 of the TechNet Conference, I facilitated a roundtable discussion on what it takes to generate political will for supply chain improvements. At each table, participants shared their experiences generating political will and discussed in detail what it took to achieve meaningful change. Be...

During the TechNet consultation in Bangkok ten innovation projects that were given special prominence.All the projects are truly impressive in their scope, attention to detail and focused on collecting better data for supply chain management. Two are for system-wide supply chain modelling to help...

A week before (on 28-05-2015) when a couple came with an immunization card developed in a tertiary care centre which created confusion as to what all vaccines thier child should receive made Sampaje team to evolve a user frindly immunization card. This card is evolved considering National Immunizati...

National Technical Advisory group for immunization consisting GOI and development partners, on the basis of epidemiological data, prepare National Immunization Schedule, revise and update time to time either for the whole country or to state / specific districts- say whether to include JE or not, on...

Dear All, Please find attached the article recently published on cost projections of DoV. The costing analysis examines the vaccine costs, supply chain costs, and service delivery costs of immunization programs for routine immunization and for supplemental immunization activities (SIAs) for vaccin...

How about a Buffered Temperature Chain (BTC)? Vaccines which are highly thermally stable can be distributed in the Controlled Temperature Chain (CTC). To be incorporated into the CTC the vaccines must be stable enough to be stored for 3 days at 40 deg C. There are very few vaccines which are this...

Though training workshops are held on cold chain, temperature excursion was not adequately addressed. The guidelines on open vial policy permit 3 trips to outreach from ILR point. The protocol of supervising/ documenting temperature excursion from the manufacturer to regional level may be well matur...

If the answer is “Yes”, you are in luck. Most of the plenary sessions were streamed live and are now available to watch online. For a full list of video recordings, as well as accompanying slides and posters, please refer to this page: www.technet-21.org/home/about/tc2015 The resources on this pag...

Please find below links to recordings of plenary presentations that took place on Wednesday, May 13 2015 at theTechNet Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. These are available for viewing on the USTREAM website. Many thanks and I hope that you find these presentations interesting and useful. Please acce...

Please find below links to recordings of plenary presentations that took place on Tuesday, May 12 2015 at theTechNet Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. These are available for viewing on the USTREAM website. Many thanks and I hope that you find these presentations interesting and useful. Please accept...

Dear Colleagues, Kindly note that the position for Executive Manager (People that Deliver), P-4, TA position # 91378 in Supply Chain Strengthening Centre (I-VN-2015-001050 / E-VN-2015-001052)has been announced through UNICEF's on-line e-Recruitment system. Applications should be submitted before c...

Vaccine vial size – the total number of doses a single vaccine vial contains – can have a significant impact on vaccine distribution, costs, and use, according to a paper recently published in the journalVaccine. In the study titled “One Size Does Not Fit All: The Impact of Primary Vaccine Containe...

PATH wants to better understand how immunization program managers, procurement officers, and other immunization experts view the tradeoffs between liquid and lyophilized presentations ofrotavirus vaccine for use in different settings. To gather feedback from those most knowledgeable about this topic...

Dear Tech Net Colleagues, The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework promotes the development of systems and information specific to responding to public health influenza emergencies. Based on lessons learned from the WHO H1N1 response and other gap analyses, a series of objectives have be...