Dear immunization professionals, World Immunization Week (WIW) 2021 is around the corner (24 to 30 April)! The theme ‘Vaccines bring us closer’, has been chosen to urge greater engagement around immunization globally to promote the importance of vaccination in bringing people together, and improvin...

The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are collaborating to strengthen implementation of home-based records. An implementation guide to support countries in reviewing their home-based records is under development; Fuse ForeSight will be supp...

Hello,   Greetings!!   Empower, in collaboration with WHO SEARO, is pleased to announce the launch of the Emergency Outbreak Response Platform for 11 South & Southeast Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, DPR Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailan...

You can already register to the next session of the Webinar series for National/subnational Focal Points on COVID-19 Vaccination Topic: Mobilizing financing resources for scale up of COVID-19 vaccination  When: Tuesday 20 April (12-1PM CET) Registration:  https://echo.zoo...

Please join MOMENTUM on April 27, 2021 from 8:30-10am EDT for a webinar on Maintaining Focus on Routine Immunization through COVID-19 Vaccination. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, vaccinating priority populations against the virus is a top priority for health systems worldwide. Th...

This briefing note calls for the meticulous monitoring, recording, and reporting of COVID-19 vaccine doses, and distribution and consumption across all levels of the supply chain, including at service points. The need for a robust stock management system has been highlighted both in the Guidance on ...

You can already register to the next session of the Webinar series for Health Workers on COVID-19 Vaccination Topic: Supply and logistics When: Tuesday 13 April (12-1PM CET) Registration: https://echo.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_81Wgk82kRcmmMVJ43SNOuA You can find all th...

Did you miss the 2021 GVIRF? Do you want to review the materials presented, relive the conversation, or share the information with a colleague? Video recordings and presentations from GVIRF 2021 are now being posted to the GVIRF Topic Page.  If you do not find what you are looking for, please...

You can already register to the next session of the Webinar series for National/subnational Focal Points on COVID-19 Vaccination: Planning and Implementation Topic: Vaccination strategies for COVID-19 vaccination When: 6 April (12-1PM CET) Registration: https://echo.zoom.us/we...

Dear colleagues, WHO’s interim guidance “Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness” is now available at https://www.who.int/tools/covid-19-vaccine-introduction-toolkit#Evaluation%20of%20COVID-19%20vaccine%20introduction. From the site you’ll find links to the COVID-19 VE guidance, a sample ...

Dear Technet community, I wanted to provide everyone with an update regarding available information resources on the Varo Android app as well as a separate software tool called Pogo LT that works with Varo to provide aggregated performance summaries. The Varo Android application is a free tool tha...

You can already register to the next session of the Webinar series for Health Workers on COVID-19 Vaccination Topic: Reporting on COVID-19 vaccines (monitoring and AEFI) When: 30 March (12-1PM CET) Registration: https://echo.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_81Wgk82kRcmmMVJ43SNOuA You can fi...

The Single-dose HPV Vaccine Evaluation Consortium collates and synthesizes existing evidence and evaluates new data on the potential for single-dose HPV vaccination. Their goal is to inform global policy discussions and program guidance, as well as to raise awareness and understanding of its implica...

UPDATE (5 MAY) This working copy of the document Considerations for optimizing deployment of ChAdOx1-S [recombinant] vaccines in a time-limited constrained supply situation (AstraZeneca/AZD1222-Vaxzevria, AstraZeneca/SK Bioscience and SII/Covishield vaccines) provides an overview of the scientific ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) invites applications for the first cohort of the WHO Scholar Level 1 certification course on Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA 2030). We request your help to share the following course announcement with your trusted colleagues and partners and to recommend the best can...

Deadline extended  Do you work on health or immunization? Are you passionate about new and innovative approaches to improving vaccination coverage? If ‘yes’, then we’d like to hear from YOU! The World Health Organisation (WHO) has developed a set of tools to support immunization programmes ...

The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’s Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) workstream, Project ECHO, Boost, TechNet-21, and the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project invite you to join a series of video-conference-based capacity building webinars. Topic: Generating acceptance and demand for CO...

Français ci-dessous - Español abajo  Dear colleagues, As you may be aware, the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’s Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) workstream, Project ECHO, Boost, TechNet-21, and the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project have been organizing a series of video-con...

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The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’s Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) workstream, Project ECHO, Boost, TechNet-21, and the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project invite you to join a series of video-conference-based capacity building webinars. Topic: Understanding COVID-19 vaccines - safet...