At B Medical Systems, we use the rotational moulding technique to manufacture vaccine cold chain equipment. It ensures lifetime resistance to corrosion, robustness, and high insulation value.

B Medical Systems is a manufacturer and global distributor of medical refrigeration, blood management and vaccine cold chain equipment. For over 35 years, it has been innovating and creating technologies that help save lives across the globe.

Rotational Moulding / Rotomoulding is a process for producing hollow parts by placing a resin, normally in the powder form into a mould and then rotating the tool in multiple axes in an oven until the powder melts completely and coats the inside of the mould cavity. This is followed by cooling the mould which solidifies the product and is then taken out for further processing. At B Medical Systems, we use the rotational moulding technique to manufacture the precision line refrigerators, freezers and cold chain equipment.

Thanks to quality transportation and storage solutions, as well as a reliable traceability system, health care providers in Nigeria can rest assured that the vaccines administered to children are safe and efficient.

The loggers are small stationary units that monitor the temperature and performance of the vaccine refrigerators and freezers. They act as a guardian angel that makes sure the cold chain is respected under any circumstances, and that every vaccine remains both safe and usable until they are administered to the patients. Not only do they allow healthcare providers to access real-time data of their equipment over the web, they also track the vaccines providing their GPS positioning on Google Maps.

Did you know that in many remote areas of the world, the access to electricity is not reliable or not available? The conditions, in which health care is provided, are sometimes very difficult. That’s why B Medical Systems has developed a Health Center Kit, a new tool that uses excess electricity from solar panels to secure certain needs, such as lighting, mobile phones, ventilation and even DC power supply for any other application.

According to the life course approach to public health, your health today is the result of many different factors, including your previous life experiences and even those of your parents. Likewise, your health today will impact your health in the future, as well as the health of the future generations.

Steve Davis is working to bring an extraordinary vision to reality—the global elimination of the world’s most deadly and debilitating diseases. Davis is the president and CEO of PATH, a 40+ year-old, Seattle-based, global health-focused, non-governmental organization which works on vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations. In this talk, Davis lays out the “how to” of disease elimination calling on his diversity of experience as a former human-rights lawyer, a nationally-recognized technology business innovator, and social activist.

As a district manager, you should make sure that you get reliable, timely and complete monthly reports from each of your health facilities. Learn what criteria to use to evaluate the reports and what to do if there are problems.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

Requisitions and issue vouchers travel with vaccine or safe-injection supplies to make sure that there is a record of their movement. If you request or send supplies, you must know how to fill out a voucher. If you receive supplies, you must know how to review and approve a voucher. Learn how with this video!

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

Some level of vaccine wastage in inevitable. So how can you be sure you have the right amount of vaccines, to avoid stock-outs and overstocking? Learn how to calculate the wastage to expect so that you can order enough vaccine to make sure there is enough to immunize everyone in your target population.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

Is your cold-chain equipment keeping vaccines at the right temperature? Does your refrigerator or freezer have too much downtime? Use data monitoring to find out whether certain cold-chain equipment is creating problems for your budget and your vaccine supply.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

You will need a contingency plan for when things go wrong with your equipment. An inventory list helps technicians plan repairs, manage spare parts, and see which locations may need new or additional equipment. Learn how to fill out an equipment inventory, step-by-step.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has approved US$ 85 million to help people in developing countries receive an innovative protection against typhoid fever.

Immunization registers will help determine if all appropriate vaccines were delivered to everyone in your target population. Find out how to record immunizations.

This EPI training video provides knowledge and skills based on WHO guidance (for example, Mid-Level Manager and Immunization in Practice modules) to support routine immunization in the field. Find more at www.immunizationacademy.com.

Polio is still a critical problem in Pakistan where vaccination efforts have stalled. Khalida Nasreen is on a mission to change that. Every morning at 5 a.m., she hops on a motorbike and makes her way around Karachi, going door-to-door to inoculate the children in town. It’s a dangerous job as healthcare workers have lost their lives in the same pursuit, but that doesn’t stop Khalida. Thanks to her efforts, the prevalence of polio in town has decreased, building a brighter future for the next generation of Pakistani children.

Last Mile Health partners with government to deploy, support, and manage networks of community health professionals and to integrate them into the public health system. With training in maternal and child health, family planning, treatment adherence, and surveillance of epidemics, together with mentoring from nurse supervisors, these community health workers deliver quality healthcare to remote communities. In communities Last Mile Health serves, newborn mortality has decreased and the percentage of children treated for diarrhea, malaria, and pneumonia has increased. On the strength of this success, Last Mile Health is now supporting the Liberian Ministry of Health to implement the approach nationwide, preparing policy documents, training curricula, and impact measurement tools, and coordinating with NGO partners.

Launched at the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, INFUSE seeks tried and tested innovations that have potential to improve vaccine delivery. It then “infuses” them with capital and expertise to help take them to scale. INFUSE 2018 is calling for proven digital technology innovations that provide more effective methods of identity registration and authentication to accelerate and improve immunisation coverage and delivery.

A 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and then a full-length marathon on hot, dry ground -- with no breaks in between: the legendary Ironman triathlon in Kona, Hawaii, is a bucket list goal for champion athletes. But when Minda Dentler decided to take it on, she had bigger aspirations than just another medal around her neck. She tells the story of how she conquered this epic race, and what it inspired her to do next.

Polio can’t be cured, but it can be prevented. Two important tools help to prevent polio – two safe, effective vaccines. Find out about the oral polio vaccine and the inactivated poliovirus vaccine and their roles in the polio eradication effort.

To eradicate polio, we need to stop all strains of the virus, including vaccine-derived polioviruses. This short video explains how these rare virus strains emerge and how to stop them.

Twenty years ago, in February 1998, one of the most serious public health scandals of the 20th century was born, when researcher, Andrew Wakefield and his co-authors published a paper in the medical journal The Lancet suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. As we know, in the years that followed, Wakefield's paper was completely discredited as "an elaborate fraud" and retracted. Attempts by many other researchers to replicate his "findings" have all failed and investigations unearthed commercial links and conflicts of interests underpinning his original work. Wakefield himself was struck off the medical register. And yet, the ripples of that episode are still being felt today all over the world as a resurgent anti-vaccine movement continues to drive down inoculation rates, particularly in developed Western societies, where measles rates have rocketed particularly in Europe and the United States. But the Wakefield scandal hasn't just fostered the current ant-vax movement but has played a key role in helping to undermine trust in a host of scientific disciplines from public health research to climate science and GM technology. Through the archive, science journalist Adam Rutherford explores the continuing legacy of the anti-vaccine movement on the anniversary of one of its most notorious episodes, and explore its impact on health, on research and on culture both at home and abroad.

Today’s youth are tomorrow’s economic prosperity. What can governments do now to help young people transform the future?

How an outbreak of diphtheria in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh makes it clear that these people were living in substandard conditions before they fled Myanmar.

NFID animated public service announcement on the two types of vaccines available to prevent meningococcal disease among adolescents and young adults

"My child, my choice" is the public cry of parents who are against vaccinating their children. But that choice may be endangering thousands of others who can't receive vaccinations because they are too young or suffer from health conditions that compromise their immune systems. This video exposes the dangerous hypocrisy behind the anti-vaxxer movement in under six minutes.

This talk was given at a local TEDx event. The speaker talks about preventing chronic diseases in developing countries, with a particular focus on diabetes, one of the fastest growing health challenges in Africa.

Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the achievements of the global polio programme and the way head, focussing on India's efforts.

On September 28, CSIS hosted a major international conference that brought together polio eradication leaders for a full day of panels and discussion. Here is an interview with Michel Zaffra

MenAfriVac, a new vaccine against Meningococcal Meningitis seroptype Nm A, is expected to prevent meningitis epidemics in Africa's "meningitis belt" of 25 countries that stretch from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east. Hit by epidemics every few years, the meningitis belt accounts for 95 percent of the world's meningococcal meningitis disease burden. The region's worst epidemic in recent times, the 1996 epidemic, hit more than 250,000 people in the region, killing 25,000 people and causing residual disability for 50,000 others. Besides the death and disability though, meningitis epidemics have a profound socio-political significance too. Epidemics frighten people away from work and cost large amounts of money to handle. Developed by the Meningitis Vaccine Project, a joint project of PATH and WHO, the vaccine was launched in Burkina Faso in November 2010. MenAfriVac costs less than 50 US cents per dose and is 95 percent effective. The GAVI Alliance is paying the overwhelming majority of costs to roll the vaccine out. If fully funded, GAVI expects to see 236 million people vaccinated with MenAfriVac in all 25 countries of the meningitis belt.

This documentary examines the remarkable global response to devastating meningitis A outbreaks in Africa and the rapid development of an affordable vaccine to eliminate these recurring epidemics.

'Main Bhi ASHA' explores the journey of an ASHA and ANM working to fully immunzing every child as part of Mission Indradhanush

Clinical research funded by Gavi partners at Patan Hospital in Kathmandu is helping shape Nepal’s immunisation policy against its biggest child killer: pneumonia. This video shows how disease burden and impact studies at Patan have guided the national introduction of Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal vaccines, which protect children against the two main causes of pneumonia.

Internationally recognized experts give research updates on vaccine work for worldwide problems, such as HIV and Ebola, as well as updates on vaccine efforts of particular relevance to Montana, such as in brucellosis. Research efforts led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Merck & Co., Inc., are also summarized.

Everybody is talking about Measles – but what does the virus actually do in the body? Is it really so harmful that you need a vaccination? We go deep into the body of an infected person and see what Measles does and how the immune system reacts to it!

ealth Ministry launched single vaccine for dual protection against measles and rubella as part of Universal Immunization Programme

The next epidemic could start anywhere, reach anyone, and wipe out millions. But together we can #OutsmartEpidemics. Please like, comment and share this video to help spread the word

In rural Rajasthan, a simple necklace - which contains a child's vaccination records in a computer chip - is helping boost the numbers protected.

From firefighter to scientist, pilot to doctor, these children have big dreams. But without vaccines, those dreams will be out of reach. Today, vaccines are protecting more children than ever before. But 1.5 million more could be saved each year if we close the gap by reaching the most disadvantaged children.

George Washington students interview LMI’s Roger Miller & Shanta Whitaker regarding their recent publication in Health Affairs, "Reorganizing Nigeria’s Vaccine Supply Chain Reduces Need For Additional Storage Facilities, But More Storage Is Required.”

The eradication of polio has served as a model for many efforts to contain and eliminate other diseases, Mike McGovern, chair of Rotary International’s PolioPlus Committee, tells Devex Impact associate editor Adva Saldinger in this video interview.