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Pakistan Vaccine Logistics Management Information System (vLMIS) Release 2 went Live this week: vLMIS release 2 is a single web based integrated platform for reporting Routine Immunization, VSSM, CCEM2 and SDMS software. The portal has below modules with respective dashboards, reports, graphs, an...

Unknown gunmen on Saturday the 28th of December 2013 opened indiscriminate fire on entering a hospital and fled from the scene. Subsequently, one polio worker, Zahid Gul, was killed on the spot whereas ward orderly Niqab Khan and a woman sustained severe injuries. Meanwhile, policemen reached the...

Wild Polio virus type 1 (WPV1) stills exists in Quetta as samples collected from the city's sewage system suggested persistence of the virus in the environment. The detection of polio virus has rung alarming bells with potential threat for millions of children of below the age of five in the cit...

Cross-posted from www.childsurvival.net with thanks! I wanted to let you know about an exciting new polio initiative announced last week. In a display of support for the new Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan, more than 400 scientists and technical experts from 80 countries issued the Scient...

by Raja Rao and Joseph Torres, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation In November last year, 17 different proposals on how to optimize immunization systems were each awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in round nine of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. Below, Raja R...

This blog by Judith Kaufmann has been cross-posted from the Health Affairs blog. Many thanks. The week of December 17 was a grim one for the polio eradication effort in Pakistan. Seven Pakistani women health workers and two Pakistani men, all working to ensure the success of the polio campaign, ...

Pentavalent stories: Lucknow deaths subjudice   http://hindu.com/2010/08/24/stories/2010082457281300.htm Initially, it was said that three deaths had occurred due to the anti-measles vaccine and one death due to the BCG shot. Then it was said the children were given BCG vaccine instead of a...

VSSM INTRODUCTION AT NATIONAL VACCINE STORE ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (By Ghulam Taqi) Country Background: Pakistan is the largest country in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region: With Four Provinces and three areasThe total population approximately 167 million.Annual Birth Cohort approx...

Many thanks to Mojtaba Haghgou for sharing this with our readers. The TechNet21 website will soon have a software depot from which you will be able to download VSSM and other latest software. Vaccination Supply Stock Management (VSSM) version 4.7, is a computer application, now used in the centra...

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...

I have one suggestion on a different topic for which I need comments from experts.  In Polio Eradication programs, the Non-Polio Entero virus rates in the stool specimens is taken as a proxy indicator of adequate stools and effective reverse cold chain. This indicator becomes all the more important ...

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...

James Cheyne shares with us the jointly produced (IFRC/GAVI Alliance) advocacy report on immunization, entitled "Unfinished business". The report was pre-released at the UN Palais in Geneva earlier this month and will be more formally launched at the forthcoming MDG Summit. The press re...

As regards prophylaxis you can address only specific group. How long are you going to use the prophylaxis? These are the issues to be addressed and I appreciate your concern. Regards, Nagaraj...

I need an urgent reply on the following questions regarding H1N1 pandemic from the experts: Pakistan is faced with worst floods in its history. Can we start H1N1 vaccination among the affectees specially those in the camps? If yes which groups to target? We have enough doses of TEMIFLU in our stock...

Dear Technet Subscribers, I have attached a study conducted in Pakistan on the use of re-designed immunization cards, in an attempt to provide relief from the almost exclusively CC and logistics focus of Technet's recent discussions (shades of the old Technet, when cold chain ruled!) Cheers, Tasnim ...

Vaccination Supplies Stock Management (VSSM) was first developed in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) in late 2006 and the later versions were developed by receiving support from WHO HQs. VSSM has been used in Sudan and Egypt and recently was installed in Laos, Iran, Uzbekistan and no...

Mojtaba Haghgou and Hailu Kenea write from Islamabad (Pakistan) and share newspaper clippings on the Federal Vaccine Store in Islamabad. The Government of Pakistan is committed to improving the quality parameters of the Federal Vaccine Store located in the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islam...

POST 01345E: DURING GLOBAL RECESSION USE SCARCE RESOURCES RESPONSIBLY (POLIO ERADICATION) FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E & 01344E 3 NOVEMBER 2008 ****************************************** FOCUS NEEDS TO SHIFT TO OVERALL WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN Before the eradication pr...

POST 01342E: POLIO ERADICATION VS CONTROL—THE DEBATE CONTINUES FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01339E & 01341E 27 OCTOBER 2008 ****************************************** The topic continues to be hotly debated and perspectives seem to differ widely. For those of you who would like a statistical update ...