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Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to share an analysis and discussion on Cameroon’s HPV vaccination crisis as reflected in WUENIC 2024 data. Coverage declined from 68% in 2023 to 36% in 2024, increasing the risk of preventable cervical cancer among adolescent girls. The latest Immunization for Resilie...

Dear Colleaques, The Immunization for Resilience newsletter is delighted to announce our first commentary in the peer-reviewed journal, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, Taylor & Francis Group.“Closing the Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Gap in Cameroon: Global Evidence and Policy Imperatives,” o...

REGISTER HERE: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ArPqP2JCTLeT3WA-0zYSOA   On Wednesday 1 October, 14:00-16:00 CET Protection from birth: Expanding access to hepatitis B birth dose WHO estimates that 254 million people were living with chronic hepatitis B infection (HBV) in 20...

Can respiratory syncytial virus vaccine give life long protection when immunized during pregrancy or need booster dose how many times?...

Dear TechNet colleagues, Thank you for the opportunity to share this with the community. In line with TechNet’s promotional policy, I am posting here to introduce my weekly newsletter and invite collaboration and feedback. What it is Immunization for Resilience is a weekly update that synthesizes...

Dear TechNet community, The World Bank is hosting a webinar on June 17th, 2025, highlighting the key achievements during Uganda's HPV scale up campaign in the 12 poorly performing districts and its linkage to the broader adolescent health improvement strategy. In case this is of interest, I th...

What could be the specific immunization schedule for premature baby considering weight etc.? ...

A new publication in BMC Health Services Research by ThinkWell shows the cost of delivering COVID-19 vaccines in Mozambique during the first year it was introduced. The study covers two time periods: the initial supply constrained period of the rollout in March-April 2021 and a later, higher-volume ...

As the mpox outbreak in the DRC and other African countries continues, it is critical to understand what it may cost to get mpox vaccines to those who are most at risk. In this blog post, Laura Boonstoppel and Flavia Moi at ThinkWell, explain why they think mpox vaccines will be much more expensive ...

Findings from bottom-up costing studies of integrated vaccination campaigns in Nigeria and Sierra Leone have been published in BMC Health Services Research. The research, conducted by ThinkWell and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, estimated the costs of a campaign held in 2019 in Sierra Leone with...

Bonjour à tous, question : un vaccin qui respecte la politique des flacons entamés, un vaccin ouvert qui sera utilisé à cheval entre 2 mois, quelle est la meilleure méthode de comptabiliser de rapporter les doses utilisées et surtout le flacon ? Est-ce avec le mois d'ouverture ou le mois de fermetur...

On October 6, 2023, HLN released a new version (v1.40.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) to several vaccine groups. ICE is a state-of-the-art open source software system that provides clinical decision support for immunizations for use in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electron...

Sharing herewith the “Guidance on routine immunization services during COVID-19 pandemic in the WHO European Region” developed by WHO EURO VPI team in consultation with WHO EURO COVID19 Team, ETAGE experts and UNICEF Regional Office. The document aims to provide pragmatic guidance for national immu...

Dear viewers, we wish to share the attached with the techNet community          This year on 14th November 2019, we celebrated “EuVac award ceremony” in our college to felicitate the parents for getting their children graduated timely with primary vaccination before first b...

Dear all I encountered operational challege were during SIA, specifically OBR using mOPV2 antigen. I observed that the fixed post team were given only bOPV which is the right antigen for routine while ignoring the purpose of the campaign (mOPV2 not given). They were intructed to give both mOPV2 and...

Dear viewers We wish to share the original article -- “Study on Hepatitis B Birth dose Vaccination Coverage, Promoting the same in a Private Rural Medical College”. Though Viral Hepatitis – a silent public health problem of “extraordinary scale” could not feature in MDG goals, got qualified to be ...

Dear viewers Manoor is a SC of Community Health Centre (CHC) Kota of Udupi Taluk and district of Karnataka state. What the country wants to achieve by 2020 is already achieved and sustained. Udupi and the neighboring districts – Dakshinakannada, Kodagu, are all well performing districts. Only constr...

From 17 April to 1 May, the globally synchronised switch from trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) is taking place in 155 countries and territories. This will be followed by an intensive monitoring and validation phase through to 18 May. To follow progress as co...

Dear viewers Context: India in collaboration with development partners like WHO/UNICEF/USAID/MCHIP etc has made remarkable advances in the last ten years: introduction of Measles 2nd dose, HepB vaccine including Birth dose vaccine, JE 2 doses, Pentavalent vaccine, year 2012-13 declared as year of ...

The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on immunization (SAGE) convened by WHO on 20 October 2015 has confirmed that the globally coordinated withdrawal of the type 2 component in the oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) will take place in April 2016. SAGE’s landmark decision follows the endorsement by th...