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Dear All, WHO EPELA authentic e-learning courses are accepting applications for 2015 courses. Great opportunity for a lifetime experience... http://http://epela.net/epela_web/index.php PHARMACEUTICAL COLD CHAIN MANAGEMENT 2 February – 24 April 2015 4 May – 24 July 2015 7 September - 27 ...

This summary has been extracted from the IVAC website. For best viewing, please click here. For the first time in its history, the International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Disease (ISPPD), was held in Asia in March 2014. Nearly 1,000 scientists and public health experts from aroun...

An Editorial in Indian Pediatrics the journal of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics has again raised doubts about the usefulness of Hepatitis-B vaccination in India. Results of the pilot study launched in Andhra Pradesh to evaluate the usefulness of the vaccine have been published in the latest issu...

The budget impact of controlling wastage with smaller vials: A data driven model of session sizes in Bangladesh, India (Uttar Pradesh), Mozambique, and Uganda. W Yang, M Parisi, B Lahue, J Uddin, D Bishai - Vaccine, 2014 Link to full Article. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264...

Tool vs. approach: ANMs receive multiple forms/formats/records/registers. Often they have to enter same data multiple times increasing their fatigue and compromising the quality of data and service. Time and again Govt had requested the consultants and development partners to simplify recording and...

MCHIP is USAID's flagship program accelerating progress towards achieving MDGs 4 & 5. Since 2008, MCHIP has worked in more than 50 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to improve the health of women and their families. MCHIP has supported programming across the spect...

"Cleanliness is godliness". In implementing routine immunization programme, achieving timeliness/timely completeness is Godliness. By vaccinating close to the schedule through regular outreach sessions at monthly intervals, tracking vaccination status through simple paper documentation ce...

Interventions promoting hepatitis B birth dose in the Rural Medical College completed one quarter. With simple measures and zero budget, the coverage was raised from 19.14% in April to 91.89% by 30th June 2014. In these three months, timely newborn vaccination has become a part of newborn care proto...

Member States Delegates discuss progress towards global immunization goals at the World Health Assembly, May 2014 Fifty-four speakers including 50 representatives from Member States[1], one Observer[2], Civil Society Organizations[3] and the GAVI Alliance took the floor during the discussion on t...

With the WHO declaration of ‘polio eradication – a public health emergency – and measles elimination by 2020’, routine immunization is gaining more importance. There is an urgency of closing the population immunity gap (lesson learnt from Syria and other countries). Primary Health Cen...

Cross-posted from the IAPHL forum with thanks! The post summarizes the discussion over three weeks. Week 1: Introduction to Supply Chain Design ? Supply Chain Design is about achieving objectives (Reliability, Responsiveness, Agility, Cost, Assets) by configuring infrastructure and process...

Dimagi is pleased to announce that it will support five organizations from various sectors in India and Nepal to explore the use of mobile technology for logistics and supply chain management in low-resource settings. Each organization will be supported to launch a proof of concept of CommTrack, an ...

The need to keep vaccines in a 2°C to 8°C cold chain is a constraining factor for many immunization campaigns due to limited storage capacity and/or limited ice pack freezing capacity; supplementary immunization activities planned across sub-Saharan Africa to introduce MenAfriVac™ are a good example...

Dear Friends, I must congratulate the GAVI board for taking a decision on introducing IPV. I hope the IPV would be introduced through cost effective intra-dermal method by enhancing its antigenic content and also through cost effective disposable syringe and needle method. Also the decision for inc...

by Daniel Thornton and Stefano Malvolti, GAVI Alliance The GAVI Alliance will spend $7 billion on lifesaving vaccines from 2011 to 2015, supporting countries to immunize an additional quarter of a billion children. Until now, although members of the Alliance have worked on particular parts of the...

It is customary to develop and share user-friendly ‘OPERATIONAL GUIDELINES’ for clarity and uniformity among service providers as and when a new vaccine (e.g. H1N1, Pentavalent) is introduced or there is a change in strategy (e.g. from 1 dose measles vaccine to 2 doses). From this month (April 2013)...

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...

Thank you Dr Robert Steinglass for sharing these presentations and films with the forum. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Global Health Program conducted a conference titled "Lives in the...

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...

by Simona Zipursky, PATH; Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey, WHO/AFRO; Olivier Ronveaux, WHO/AFRO; Sylvestre Tiendrebeogo, Consultant In November 2012, the first immunization campaign to use a controlled temperature chain (CTC) took place in Banikoara in northern Benin. MenAfriVac is a meningitis A vac...