Happy New Year to all TechNet members! I trust that the holiday season was relaxing and peaceful for all. I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued participation in the forum and other areas of the website. It’s been wonderful to hear so many different voices from around th...

Cross-posted from the SIGN newsletter with thanks! The Yves Chartier Award 2014 rewards an NGO, or an actor from civil society, from an African country, who will have elaborated a campaign or achieved an innovative project in the struggle against antimicrobial resistance and climate change, relat...

Here is a summary of interventions made by country delegations during the GVAP discussion at the WHO Executive Board on 21 January. - A number of delegations mentioned the importance of including measles elimination as part of the GVAP (there was some discussion as to whether it should be eradi...

Vac-4-All and MRTC Launch multi-centre Malaria Vaccine Efficacy Trial in Mali Vac-4-All, a new vaccine development initiative, and the Malaria Research and Training Centre (MRTC), a public research and training facility of the University of Bamako in the Republic of Mali, have completed ...

Background: In 2010 the 63rd World Health Assembly called for a comprehensive response to viral hepatitis. As mandated by the WHA, from 2011 onwards, World Hepatitis Day is promoted on 28 July in order to provide an opportunity for awareness raising and greater understanding of viral hepatitis as...

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 ...

Many thanks to Diana Chang Blanc for sharing this with TechNet21 readers. Good day to you all, We are pleased to announce the “Overview Course in Supply Chain Management of Health Commodities", a new training designed to increase professionals of the health sector’s understanding of logistics ...

POST 01401E: RESURGENCE OF MEASLES 11 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** In some countries where measles was near elimination there has been a sudden resurgence of the disease. Low vaccine coverage could have many reasons, including financial impediments, and geographica...

POST 01325E: FUTURE COLD CHAIN TRENDS 19 SEPTEMBER 2008 ******************************************* On 10 and 11 June 2008, a meeting was held on Cool Chain Technologies for the Future (organized by PATH) at Mijoux, France. Prior to the meeting, discussions were held with cold chain equipme...

POST 01226E: COLD CHAIN EQUIPMENT: COMPETITIVE PRICING 14 FEBRUARY 2008 Follow-up on posts: 01225E 01221E, 01218, 01216, 01214E ******************************************* I would like to submit the following in response to Vikram Singh. *************************************************...

POST 01226E: COLD CHAIN EQUIPMENT: COMPETITIVE PRICING 14 FEBRUARY 2008 Follow-up on posts: 01225E 01221E, 01218, 01216, 01214E ******************************************* I would like to submit the following in response to Vikram Singh. *************************************************...

POST 01148E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS Follow-up on Posts 01125E, 01133E and 01141E 27 August 2007 ________________________________________ This posting contains two contributions discussing domestic refrigerators. The first is from Soren Spanner from UNICEF/India and the second from ...

POST 01121E : WASTE MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Post 01111E 13 July 2007 _____________________________________ Modibo Dicko's message generated three contributions. The first is from [log in to unmask]">Henrique Menezes d'Alva, from Angola. [log in to unmask]">John Lloyd, fro...

POST 01070E : BCG EFFICACY QUESTIONED 27 March 2007 ____________________________________ NOTE : Most of you will have picked up the error in the link to the article on the ethics of compulsory vaccination. It is not even the first time I make this same mistake, a "w" instead of an "e" in the...

POST 01019E : SOLAR REFRIGERATOR 2 December 2006 ____________________________________ Last May, Carib Nelson gave an update on a new solar refrigerator (Post 00921E). Today, Rajendra Shende (mailto:[email protected]) from UNEP in France, shares a news item on the same topic. He pla...

POST 00974E : COLD CHAIN CAPACITY ASSESSMENT Follow-up on Posts 00965E and 00971E 13 September 2006 _____________________________________ This posting contains three contributions. The first is from Mohammad Abdullah Kainuwa (mailto:[email protected]) from Nigeria. The second is fr...

POST 00965E : COLD CHAIN CAPACITY ASSESSMENT/REQUEST FOR INFO 23 August 2006 ______________________________________________________________ NOTE : I have inadvertently deleted a message from a member, going too fast in deleting the load of spams... so please, whoever wrote to TechNet on S...

POST 00937E : THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE Follow-up on Posts 00917E, 00923E and 00931E 8 June 2006 __________________________________________________________ This posting contains five contributions to the discussion. The first comes from Patrick Isingoma (mailto:[email protected]...

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:FBA@compus...

POST 00832E : DESTRUCTION OF PLASTIC SYRINGES Follow-up on Posts 00819E, 00824E and 00830E 8 September 2005 _____________________________________ This posting contains three further contributions on this topic. The first is from Jonathan Colton (mailto:[email protected]) and ...