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by Olivier Ronveaux, WHO, and Mojtaba Haghgou, Vaccine Management Consultant Maintaining required temperatures in vaccine refrigerators and freezers is one of the more thankless tasks of a cold chain manager as it requires painstaking manual recording of the temperature of each piece of equipment...

Vaccine vial monitor use, policy, and practices in four regionsby Julie Milstien, independent consultant While the benefits of using vaccine vial monitors (VVMs) in immunization programs are widely known, a recently completed study of VVM use and availability shows that their use is still not univer...

The Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning website launched a new module on 7 October to support the World Health Organization's computer-based Measles Strategic Planning (MSP) tool. The MSP was developed to help countries develop measles vaccination strategies to meet their measles contr...

The Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning website recently launched a new module to help decision-making on rotavirus vaccine introduction. The module provides comprehensive information from basic disease characteristics through immunization session planning; this interactive online to...

POST 01406E: EVALUATION OF SYRINGE MELTER 22 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** Dear TechNet moderator, I am forwarding a report of an evaluation of a syringe melter conducted in Andhra Pradesh in 2008. The melter was developed by Mike Werner, then of New Paradigm Automation...

POST 01391E: VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO VIRUS 18 FEBRUARY 2009 ****************************************** In the context of the discussions on polio eradication on our forum (see POSTS: 01354E), these reports hold great interest. Cross-posting yet again from CSU, with a big thank you to Bob Davis and...

POST 01354E: POLIO ERADICATION—LET’S FINISH THE JOB FOLLOW UP ON POSTS: 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E, 01344E, 01345E, 01346E, 01348E, 01350E & 01353E 20 NOVEMBER 2008 ****************************************** NEED TO JUDICIOUSLY USE THE DIFFERENT OPVS There is no single oral poliovirus v...

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 ...

POST 01341E: POLIO ERADICATION VS CONTROL—THE REAL COSTS FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01339E 25 OCTOBER 2008 ****************************************** There was also myresponse to POST 00931E in which I wrote: QUOTE About the switch from eradication to control, imagine the world asking a mountain climb...

POST 01327E: SCHOOL-BASED IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMME EXPERIENCE 25 SEPTEMBER 2008 ******************************************* WHO and partners are collecting experiences from several countries with existing school-based immunization programmes. This information can be useful for other countries that ...

POST 01322E: IMMUNIZATION MIS/TRAINING DOCUMENTS FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS: 01312E, 01314E, 01315E, 01318E 12 SEPTEMBER 2008 ******************************************* Ram Bhui responds to Anil Varshney’s request for a link to the Immunization MIS used in Indonesia, and Tasnim Partapuri very kindly s...

POST 01318E: SIMPLIFICATION OF IMMUNIZATION MIS FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS: 01312E, 01314E & 01315E 6 SEPTEMBER 2008 ******************************************* Dear All Dr Sood has brought out very important facts. It is therefore prudent to work towards simplification of tools, so that they can ...

POST 01315E: MIS IMMUNIZATION—PROBLEM OF MULTIPLE SOFTWARES FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS: 01312E & 01314E 2 SEPTEMBER 2008 ******************************************* Dear forum, I wish to highlight the problem of multiple softwares in place at the same time, and the same information being having to...

POST 01285E: REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF IMMUNIZATION SERVICES FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01273E, 01283E, 01284E 30 JUNE 2008 ******************************************* SYRINGE MELTING DEVICES Dear Moderator, The single biggest issue for climate change in immunization is the destruction of used...

POST 01281E: DARK SPECKS IN THE ACTIVE AREA OF THE VVM 16 JUNE 2008 ******************************************* Umit Kartoglu of WHO responds to Bal Ram Bhui’s question regarding how to interpret specks in the VVM’s active surface. Hi everyone, I would like to bring up a color change of VVM w...

POST 01236E: SCHOOL IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMME— INDONESIA 7 MARCH 2008 ******************************************* Please find attached the final report of a WHO-IMMUNIZATIONbasics mission to document the school-based immunization programme there. Indonesia has been implementing a nationwide school...

POST 01217E: SCHOOL-BASED TT VACCINATION FOLLOW UP ON POSTS POST 01212E AND POST 01214E 20 JANUARY 2008 Robert Steinglass, who has comprehensively documented Indonesia’s experience with school-based TT immunization, spells out the programmatic and scientific rationale behind adopting this strat...

POST 01214E COLD CHAIN MAINTENANCE 8 JANUARY 2008 My apologies for the break in communications; and thank you for putting up with the delay. We are finally up and running! Cheers. I have quite a few contributions queued up for this post. But first, please note the change of address for all fut...

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 01102E : EVALUATION OF SYRINGE MELTING 9 June 2007 PATH conducted a field evaluation of 3 prototype syringe melters in Indonesia. These low-cost approaches to syringe melting used local fuel, such as wood, coconut husks, or stoves, as heat sources. All three were effective in reducing the s...