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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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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...
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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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I want to share with you the experience about packaging vaccines that require to be between -50ºC and -15ºC to maximize the shelf life given by the lab.We prepared a 40% solution of Mono Ethylene Glycol with water inside HDPE bottle (icepacks), freezing at -50ºC for 2 days at least, then ...
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I have read in the Global Immunization Newsletter - July 2026 a special feature with the title Digital tools and WUENIC: strengthening immunization data for better decision-making, leading to the TechNet page https://www.technet-21.org/en/community/blogs-n...
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I am pleased to share a brief analysis of Cameroon’s 2025 WUENIC results. The report highlights encouraging gains in core infant vaccination, alongside major concerns around declining HPV coverage, the absence of a national timely hepatitis B birth-dose estimate, and emergi...
Dear TechNet colleagues, I am pleased to share my brief analysis of the newly released 2025 WHO–UNICEF Estimates of National Immunization Coverage.The report looks beyond global averages to highlight persistent zero-dose inequities, the challenges facing fragile and conflict-affected settings, ...
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