Country innovations: Fixing the basics by strengthening vaccine management policies and practices

TechNet Conference 2015: Managing the supply chain (1 of 3)

This publication offers a glimpse of the chequered journey of the ‘Network’, a public health infrastructure set up with the aim of supporting polio eradication activities in the five polio-priority countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region....

This is a report on managing waste safely and appropriately to minimize risks of infection and injury in Myanmar. It summarizes the current Healthcare Waste Management system, and talks about project innovations like the "de-fanging" of sharps.

In Myanmar, UNICEF is supporting the Ministry of Health and Sports (MoHS) in their efforts to improve supply chain performance by strengthening the collection, sharing and use of supply chain data at all levels. This case study highlights the key...

More than 300 million people who live in rural areas of the Mekong region are among the most at-risk for Japanese encephalitis (JE) infection due to changes in the Mekong region’s ecological conditions. This fact sheet describes how PATH helps...

This analysis describes an innovative and successful approach to risk identification and mitigation in relation to the switch from trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV) in the 11 countries of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s)...

The approach to review interagency collaboration in medicines supply chain examined the subject in the context of current literature and evidence in effective collaboration. As such, it did not focus on the technical bottlenecks and responses to...

An estimated 2.7 million children die annually from vaccine-preventable diseases.1 Immunization is one of the most effective existing strategies for preventing illness in children and it is widely seen as a beneficial, low-cost investment.2 The...