While stethoscope, knee-hammer, tuning fork and the like help in making bedside diagnosis in clinical medicine; Public health uses well designed, field tested forms / formats and tools for: 1) Collecting adequate data for obtaining meaningful “information” 2) Obtaining required indicators for pe...

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 ...

People who delay or refuse vaccines for themselves or their children are presenting a growing challenge for countries seeking to close the immunization gap. Globally, 1 in 5 children still do not receive routine life-saving immunizations, and an estimated 1.5 million children still die each year of ...

Please find the attached summary of "MISSION INDRADHANUSH SIMULATION STUDY" conducted in the Primary Health Centre Samapje which is the Rural Health Training Centre for field practice of KVG Medical College. The baseline coverage >2 years itself is >95% since 2013 and hence we raised...

Sampaje team completed mission indradhanush simulation study(MISS). Lessons learnt with study observations is attached for the technet community for viewing/reviewing. Hoping for CSF (comments / suggestions / feedback) from the viewers....

In the last decade, vaccine information management has slowly evolved from paper at every level in the health system, to Excel-based reports at higher levels (districts or above) that are emailed, to simple stand-alone databases with exported PDF reports, and most recently web forms that capture dat...

Potency of vaccine at the time of administration to the beneficiaries is of utmost importance in preventing morbidity and mortality due to vaccine preventable diseases. Evolution of more and more vaccines against crippling and lethal diseases has made vaccination the most cost-effective and importan...

We are pleased to share the new PtD Newsflash no. 16 with our colleagues.     In this issue of the PtD Newsflash, read more about the: Webinar for the LAC region on systematic approaches to increasing professionalism in health SCM Newgraduates from the Pharmacy Assistant Training...

I was thinking of writing on “ALLOWABLE ALLOWANCE” with regard to the quality of vaccination in terms of timeliness of various antigens and interval between subsequent doses. Meanwhile I had a brain storming session with a SMO from WHO country office on Thursday evening: 09-07-2015 and sharing the s...

“Apps” (computer software applications) are being developed and used as tools to help manage the vaccines and medicines supply chain more and more. But are they directed at challenges that have persisted the longest and would have the greatest impact if resolved? Take, for example, the following two...

Hi all, I am quite new to the CTC adventure. After reading the second draft of the WHO CTC guideline, now ECTC (I also wen through the first version and the discussion in Langen and Ottawa), several questions came to my mind, and I would be extremely grateful if some of the forum members can help ...

The USAID | DELIVER PROJECT and People that Deliver developed theHuman Resource Capacity Development in Public Health Supply Chain Management: Assessment Guide and Toolto help public health supply chain managers in developing countries assess and improve the management of their human resources. It...

I’m delighted to announce the online release of WHO’s new 3-part film on the Controlled Temperature Chain (CTC) produced by IVB/EPI in both English and French. This 3-episode film on CTC serves as an advocacy tool in order to promote the approach among varied stakeholders. The first episode explain...

For reviewing the performance of a programme it is customary to have a target / expected level of achievement as a denominator before launching a programme. From the numerator collected through formats, indicators were obtained for performance review; for e.g. in NID/SIA’s 0 to 5 yr children are the...

Passing along a great blog post written by Erin Fry Sosne at PATH after taking her son to the clinic for his vaccinations earlier today. Would you go back? Today is my son’s six-month birthday, and my husband and I took him in for his six-month pediatric appointment. He was due for his third and...

Thank you to all the countries who have responded so far to the supply chain manager survey (Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Guinea, Tanzania, Tonga, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan). We would like to hear from all the other Gavi countries: your input will be extremely valuable...

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...