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POST 01401E: RESURGENCE OF MEASLES 11 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** In some countries where measles was near elimination there has been a sudden resurgence of the disease. Low vaccine coverage could have many reasons, including financial impediments, and geographical inac...

POST 01226E: COLD CHAIN EQUIPMENT: COMPETITIVE PRICING 14 FEBRUARY 2008 Follow-up on posts: 01225E 01221E, 01218, 01216, 01214E ******************************************* I would like to submit the following in response to Vikram Singh. *********************************************************...

POST 01226E: COLD CHAIN EQUIPMENT: COMPETITIVE PRICING 14 FEBRUARY 2008 Follow-up on posts: 01225E 01221E, 01218, 01216, 01214E ******************************************* I would like to submit the following in response to Vikram Singh. *********************************************************...

POST 01183E : BCG AND LEPROSY 8 November 2007 This posting contains two contributions. Devesh Singh from India asks a question about the protective effect of BCG. Thanks to Uli Fruth from WHO/HQ for providing an answer. The Lancet article to which he refers is surprisingly still available on a p...

POST 01165E : VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES : YOUR OPINION 1st October 2007 Craig Shapiro from WHO requests your opinion. Documents are attached as they are rather small in size. The deadline is short by the end of this week, so you must react fast. NOTE: Feedback requested by Friday, October...

POST 01138E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT 11 August 2007 Vaccine_stock_management:_Guidelines_on_stock_records_for_immunization_programme_and_vaccine_store_managers_(WHO/IVB/06.12) WHO recently published a new document on vaccine stock management. The document was prepared and written by Dr. Ahme...

POST 01083E : POLIO ERADICATION 24 April 2007 Sending two articles through Child Survival Update recently, Robert Davis (mailto:[email protected]) wrote : "The costs of eradicating poliomyelitis from the remaining infected countries, while high in the short term, are much lower than the lo...

POST 01068E : TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICES INTERPRETATION 23 March 2007 Dear all, According to WHO Guidelines on the international packaging and shipping of vaccines (WHO/IVB/05.23) a 10-day electronic temperature monitoring device should be included in each international vaccine shippi...

POST 01040E : PIS/PQS 15 January 2007 WHO PQS Secretariat is happy to announce the official release of the PQS E06 product specifications and verification protocols which were approved by the PQS steering group meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland at WHO HQ on 9 January 2007. The new produc...

POST 1010E : REFRIGERANT GASES Follow-up on Posts 00993E and 00999E 12 November 2006 This posting contains three contributions. from Soren Spanner (mailto:[email protected]) from UNICEF/India. from Michel Zaffran (mailto:[email protected]) from GAVI in Switzerland, and from Terry...

POST 01009E : TEMPERATURE MONITORS 10 November 2006 This posting contains two contributions. The first, from Andrew Garnett (mailto:[email protected]) from the United Kingdom, is a short piece of information. Please note the now functional link to the PQS website at : http://www...

POST 00975E : VVM USE / CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS Follow-up on Posts 00960E, 00962E, 00964E, 00970E and 00973E 16 September 2006 The message below from Ümit Kartoglu (mailto:[email protected]) is self-explanatory. At an appropriate time, a webpage will be added to our site. Those who will not ha...

POST 00893E : COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING Follow-up on Post 00888E 2 March 2006 This posting contains two contributions. The first is from Robert Steinglass (mailto:[email protected] ) from ImmunizationBasics in the United States. He shares information on another experience with com...

POST 00882E : GLOBAL PLAN TO STOP TB 30 January 2006 Last Friday 27 January 2006, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and Bill Gates called on world leaders to rally behind a major new action plan ...

POST 00848E : IMMUNIZATION SAFETY 27 October 2005 The latest issue of Weekly Epidemiological Record contains an article on the global status of immunization safety based on JRF collected for the year 2004. The article can be downloaded from : http://www.who.int/wer/2005/wer8042.pdf The ar...

POST 00847E : SEEKING YOUR OPINION 26 October 2005 Michel Zaffran (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO requests your opinions on the topic below. If you wish your opinion posted, please send a copy to TechNet. COMBINATION VACCINES, LYOPHILIZED VACCINES, DILUENTS AND VVMS WHO recommendatio...

POST 00791E : OTHER INTERVENTIONS WITH VACCINATION 21 May 2005 In the previous posting (Post 00790E), we shared a presentation by Juan Ortiz and Bob Davis on "EPI and Accelerated Child Survival". As Bob had circulated the Lancet article quoted in slide 17 through Tech Updates, I though...

POST 00774E: MEASLES CAMPAIGN AND ITN DISTRIBUTION Follow-up on Posts 00763E, 00765E, 00767E, 00768E and 00771E 11 April 2005 This posting continues the discussion on measles campaign and bednet distribution with two contributions, both from colleagues of the IFRC. The first is from Stefan Ho...

POST 00771E : MEASLES CAMPAIGN AND ITN DISTRIBUTION Follow-up on Posts 00763E, 00765E, 00767E and 00768E : 3 April 2005 This posting contains two contributions. The first is from Richard Hunlédé (mailto:[email protected]) from the IFRC in Switzerland. Interested members could also read...

POST 00768E : MEASLES CAMPAIGN AND ITN DISTRIBUTION Follow-up on Posts 00763E, 00765E and 00767E 27 March 2005 Two more contributions on this debate. The first is from Christian Lengeler (mailto:[email protected]) from the Swiss Tropical Institute in Switzerland, followed by a seco...