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Written by: Philippe Jaillard and Aristide Aplogan, AMP Over the past eight years, almost 400 district medical officers in 11 African countries[sup][1][/sup] have earned professional (masters level) diplomas through a unique practical inter-university program called EPIVAC. The program’s name is ...

Written by: Madjiguène Ndiaye, SNEIPS; Ibrahima Leye, Consultant; and Mariama Gueye, PATH On October 27, 2010, the Government of Senegal officially launched a new project to demonstrate the impact of various changes and upgrades to the vaccine supply chain including the use of mobile warehouses to...

UPDATE ON MATERNAL NEONATAL TETANUS ELIMINATION AS OF OCTOBER 2010 WHO/CHERG estimates for causes of child mortality show that Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) was responsible for 59,000 neonatal deaths in 2008.Though the figure shows a 92% reduction in mortality from the 800,000 deaths estima...

The first global training on effective vaccine management by Hailu Makonnen Kenea, Souleymane Kone, and Modibo Dicko from WHO; and Andrew Garnett, consultant. On July 29, 2010, after ten days of intensive and interactive training, 29 global, regional, country, and independent cold chain and log...

Toward a global framework for e-health information systems by David Lubinski and Jan Grevendonk, PATH Improving health outcomes through strengthened platforms and systems has emerged as a guiding principle of donors and multilateral agencies. A key building block for this effort will be the develop...

Many thanks to Ashley Iwanaga for sending in the latest UNDP GEF Healthcare Waste Management Project report. Dear Colleagues, The UNDP GEF Project on Healthcare Waste Management is excited to share its first Project Update report (in English, French, and Spanish). The goal of the project is ...

Senegal To Explore Integrated Supply Chains and New Delivery Models by Modibo Dicko, WHO; Dr. Aboubakry Fall, Ministry of Public Health Senegal; and Dr. Ndiouga Diallo, PATH Optimize is discussing an agreement with the Ministry of Health in Senegal to explore several new approaches to supply chai...

Are Vertical Supply Chains Still Necessary?by Modibo Dicko, Coordinator, Project Optimize, WHO For the past 30 years, immunization—like many other health programs—has been managed as a vertical program with its own management team, reporting requirements, personnel, and supply chain. Attempts to li...

POST 01405E: OPTIMUM AGE FOR MEASLES VACCINATION FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01403E 21 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** The WHO position paper on measles vaccine says that, "The optimum age for measles vaccination depends on the local epidemiological situation and on programmatic cons...

TECHNET21 E-FORUM Technical network for strengthening immunization services Contributions to: mailto:[email protected] or use your reply button! POST 01089E : NEEDLE REMOVER EVALUATION 6 May 2007 Carib Nelson (mailto:[email protected]) from PATH is sending this report of a new needle-re...

POST 01045E : SOLAR REFRIGERATOR Follow-up on Posts 01019E, 01027E, 01032E and 01037E 25 January 2007 This posting contains a record number of six contributions, coming from : Robyn McIntyre (mailto:[email protected]) from Fiji Nasim Ahmed (mailto:[email protected]) John Pott (mail...

POST 00989E : VVM USE AND FREEZE INDICATORS Follow-up on Posts 00960E, 00962E, 00964E, 00970E, 00973E, 00975E and 00978E 11 October 2006 This posting contains two short contributions. The first, originally in French, is from Abdoulaye Djigo (mailto:[email protected]) from Senegal if...

POST 00921E : UPDATE ON SOLAR REFRIGERATOR 5 May 2006 The following update on SolarChill battery-free solar regrigerators is sent by Carib Nelson (mailto:[email protected]) from PATH. SolarChill update --- April 2006 The SolarChill vaccine refrigerator is an innovative approach to solar re...

POST 00836E : PHARMACEUTICAL COLONIALISM IN AFRICA 28 September 2005 The article below was originally published in the "Monde diplomatique" of June 2005, and August for the English edition. It was sent by Anthony Battersby (mailto:[email protected]). Quite interesting though a little long...

POST 00826E : NEEDLE-REMOVER STUDY Follow-up on Post 00818E 23 August 2005 This posting contains two contributions. The first is from Mary Catlin (mailto:[email protected]) from The United States, followed by that of Ville Lehto (mailto:[email protected]) from Finland. The ...

POST 00818E : NEEDLE-REMOVER STUDY 2 August 2005 Carib Nelson (mailto:[email protected]) from PATH informs us of the following needle-remover study that you can download from the TechNet site at : http://www.technet21.org/pdf_file/SenegalNR-barrelstudy-FinalReport.pdf (550KB) A needle rem...

POST 00780E : INFORMATION ON SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS? Follow-up on Posts 00762E and 00769E 21 April 2005 Below are comments by Abdoulaye Oumar Djigo (mailto:[email protected]) from Sénégal supporting those by Bibata Paré previously posted. I would like to support what Mrs Bibata said...

POST 00698E : OPINIONS ON THERMOMETERS 19 July 2004 Hello, For sharp waste management we have installed 51 incinerators De Monfort in Senegal. Keeping in line with usage instructions, we suggest that each operator should be equipped with a thermometer. Our research on internet has yielded the...

POST 00694E : PIS EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK Follow-up on Posts 00670E, 00676E and 00688E 5 July 2004 Abdoulaye Djigo (mailto:[email protected]) from Sénégal gives his point of view on the performance of some refrigerators. The example he gives of a private fridge highlights, in my opinion, a ...

POST 00690E : WASTE MANAGEMENT EVALUATION Follow-up on Posts 00665E and 00675E 25 June 2004 It is true that Health Care Waste should be treated in a global and integrated manner. However, this requires qualified human resources, sophisticated techniques, and all that with financial implicatio...