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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the new Implementing integrated health campaigns: decision-making and planning guide (available in English and French), which provides a practical framework to help countries assess opportunities for campaign integration and plan integrated health cam...
Gender-related barriers continue to affect equitable access to immunization services and outcomes. Addressing these barriers is essential to improving coverage, reaching zero-dose children, and ensuring that no one is left behind.
Join us on 13 October 2026 for the launch webinar of the n...
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Every year, as part of our vaccine Market Information for Access (MI4A) work, we publish the MI4A Vaccine Purchase Dataset, providing information on every vaccine that each country has purchased, as reported through the eJRF. Each year's data collection gathers information on the purchases mad...
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Sharing our latest analysis of HPV vaccination trends in Cameroon, using the recent WHO/UNICEF immunization coverage estimates, including the 2025 revision.
Title: Transient recovery and renewed decline in HPV vaccination coverage in Cameroon after single-dose and gen...
They fail because technicians don't believe their actions will be supported.Imagine you have to travel 30 km to a facility where the refrigerator has failed. Before you can go, you need a transport allowance, and approval takes several layers of sign-off. The road is bad, so the trip takes three hou...
The position of Team Lead, Vaccine & Immunization Policy (P5), within the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) has just been announced, with an application deadline of 13th October 2026.
This position includes the role of Executive Secretary to SAGE and is cri...
The TB Vaccine Accelerator Working Group on Country Readiness, Advocacy and Community Partnership is hosting a series of webinars in an effort to increase knowledge about new TB vaccines for adolescents and adults, and the role that they are envisaged to play in future efforts by countries to end TB...
The BigCatchUp campaign, recently implemented in the Edea health district, was a crucial initiative to catch up on children who had received no vaccinations (zero dose) as well as those who were under-vaccinated. This programme aims to strengthen vaccination coverage and ensure that every ...
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Pleased to share that the Springer Nature book, AI for Epidemic Preparedness: Innovations and Insights from the Global South, has now been published.
Chapter contribution: Equity-Centered AI for Immunization in Humanitarian Settings: Opportunities and Ethical Dilem...
From Maps to Action in Immunisation Microplanning
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How can geographic information and programme data help immunisation teams develop more practical plans to reach underserved communities?
VaxPlan invites immunisation professionals, digital health practitioners, GIS specialists, re...
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We've developed a lightweight web tool for calculating the net storage capacity of an existing cold room from its installed shelving, and we'd value critique from this community before we take it further.
The gap we're trying to fill
The established tools — the WHO Vaccine Volume...
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Sharing a video summarizing the first Regional Health Campaign Integration Workshop, held in Kigali, Rwanda, in June 2026.
The workshop brought together health leaders and partners to strengthen the coordination, integration and delivery of health campaigns across the African Region. P...
Some guidelines state that a walk-in cooler that stores vaccines can hold its temperature for 3 to 4 hours without being opened during a power failure.
However, what is the actual holdover time, especially in the summer season?...
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We are pleased to share that the upgraded version of the Immunization Forecasting and Supply Planning Toolbox webpage has been released on TechNet: https://www.technet-21.org/en/immunization-forecasting-and-supply-planning-toolbox
Originally launched by UNICEF in collaboration wit...
Pour renforcer la surveillance et la maintenance des équipements de la chaîne du froid, le ministère sénégalais de la Santé, avec le soutien de PATH, a développé le CCE/EPI Tracker, une solution numérique intégrée à DHIS2.
Rejoignez ce webinaire pour découvrir comment l'outil permet la surveillance...
Keeping vaccines safe requires more than deploying cold chain equipment. It also requires reliable systems to monitor performance, track temperature data, manage maintenance activities, and support timely decision-making.
Join us to learn how Senegal's Ministry of Health, with support from PATH, in...
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Join this TechNet webinar in partnership with UNICEF to hear country experiences with the WHO PQS-prequalified Emvolio (Blackfrog) transportable powered vaccine storage (TPVS) solution.
Speakers from Kenya, India, Tanzania, and other deployment setti...
Vaccines like BCG and Measles must be kept between + 2°C to +8°C. Is there any risk if these vaccines were placed on the bottom shelf of combo/combination refrigerator, where the temperature may drop below sub-zero? In the past these freeze dried vaccine were stored in minus temperature....
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its first Global Youth Competition on Influenza and COVID-19 Prevention and Control, inviting young people aged 18–35 years to submit creative videos on how to protect themselves and their loved ones from influenza and/or COVID-19....
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I am pleased to share a new preprint examining how health-zone-specific transmission may shape the potential impact of ring vaccination during the 2026 Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The analysis found that health zones with the same ope...
Countries across sub-Saharan Africa continue to make progress toward improving routine immunization (RI) coverage, yet significant operational challenges remain in delivering potent vaccines to underserved and hard-to-reach populations. Outreach immunization activities are routinely conducted in env...
How many single-dose IPV vials and 5-dose of measles vaccine vials can be stored in a net one litre space in a combo refrigerator?...
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