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Presently the dose of rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) which is an integral part of rabies post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is calculated based on body weight though the recommendation is to infiltrate the wound(s). This practice demands large quantities of RIG which may be un- affordable to many patients...

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Most ice-lined refrigerators in India are fully functional at 5 - 45 degrees Celsius (ie, they are able to maintain an internal temperature of 2-8 degrees Celsius when the external temperatures are between 5 and 45 degrees Celsius). Some states of India have an extremely cold climate during winters ...

Dear viewers Context: India in collaboration with development partners like WHO/UNICEF/USAID/MCHIP etc has made remarkable advances in the last ten years: introduction of Measles 2nd dose, HepB vaccine including Birth dose vaccine, JE 2 doses, Pentavalent vaccine, year 2012-13 declared as year of ...

A recent article on vaccine wastage from the International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health http://www.ijcmph.com/?mno=214575 Abstract Background: India released its first National Vaccine Policy in 2011. The country is presently developing new strategies to increase immunization...

Dear all Sharing the following with techNet viewers for refining workable definitions of form / format / tool in public health for needful. Tool minimizes fatigue, promotes capacity building, makes the programme self sustained for long term, minimizes HR fatigue, mitigates financial biurden and las...

Dear viewers Govt of India declared 2012-2013 as year of "Intensified Routine Immunization" and 200 districts who were below national coverage of 71% for DPT 3rd dose as per DLHS3 were selected. This gave us an opportunity to conduct this study. 4 Immunization Weeks (IWs), one week per month in 4...

This is motivated by John Lloyd's recent post about a supply chain for outreach immunization, which I found very interesting. My question is somewhat peripherally related though. As some background, I am an academic who focuses on supply chain analysis, and in particular, I have worked a fair bit on...

Twenty-three speakers including 21 representatives from Member States (i.e. 15[2]), and two civil society organizations[4] and took note of the recommendations. While Member States acknowledged successes in a few areas, most notably the absence of wild polio virus cases in the African region and mo...

Sustaining interest in a programme for several years is not an easy task. India conducted 44 rounds of Pulse Polio including the current round in Jan 2016. Many got retired but still proactively involve themselves in the pulse polio programme as national festival. Little creative simplifying cha...

On visiting Gundmi sub centre, vaccination data was collected, analysed and the results were shared as a "brekthrough" with the health care service providers, Taluk Health Officer, RCH Officer, District Health Officer and all the higher officers up to the centre and with the TechNet 21 community. Gu...

Dear all India is committed. Eradicated polio; achieved ~65% Full Immunization Coverage by 2013-14, aims to achieve >90% by 2020 through Mission Indradhanush (MI). MI districts are on war foot and in mission mode to achieve the objectives. Service providers from the government, ANMs/AWWs/ASHAs/USHA...

Background: Rabies is a dreaded disease and an estimated 55,000 people die of rabies every year. Himachal Pradesh is in the North bordering China and is predominantly rural and hilly. Villages are near forests, where wild reservoirs of rabies exist. Since health facilities are not accessible easily,...

Please find the attached summary of "MISSION INDRADHANUSH SIMULATION STUDY" conducted in the Primary Health Centre Samapje which is the Rural Health Training Centre for field practice of KVG Medical College. The baseline coverage >2 years itself is >95% since 2013 and hence we raised...

A week before (on 28-05-2015) when a couple came with an immunization card developed in a tertiary care centre which created confusion as to what all vaccines thier child should receive made Sampaje team to evolve a user frindly immunization card. This card is evolved considering National Immunizati...

Background: Complete and timely childhood immunization is one of the most cost-effective interventions in improving child survival in developing countries. Computerized HMIS has been recently introduced to collect aggregated data on service beneficiaries in Himachal Pradesh. HMIS provides coverage e...

Learning by doing and working together with mutual professional respect and reciprocation takes the team rapidly towrds the goal. Quote from National Health Policy 2015 Draft placed in public domain for CSF (comments/suggestion/feedback): "India today possesses as never before, a sophisticated ars...

Immunization coverage increased by 1% per year – from 61% in 2009 to 65% in 2014. Mission Inndradhanush aims at increasing the coverage by 5% per year to cross 90% by the year 2020. In the year 2012-13, when Intensification of Routine Immunization (IRI) was declared, a simulation study was conducte...

Karnataka completed more than 2 scores of pulse polio rounds (43) since 1995. Learning by doing and working together is a continuous process. Planning unit is a template and hence the lessons learnt from one model unit can benefit 2300+ & 23500+ units of Karnataka & the country respectively...

About 2 decades back, a Director addressed the trainees and told – “in India we have many all India Problems but no all India solution for any single problem”. In surgical field – “intention of healing is always good often with unwanted scars, keloid and strictures”. In public health – as expresse...