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POST 01197E : VACCINE FREEZING 7 December 2007 If one single topic has often been discussed on the forum, it is vaccine freezing. Many people may still think that this is a problem restricted to developing countries. Not at all! Read the following article from public media (AP), transmitted by Cr...

POST 01195E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Posts 01114E, 01127E, 01138E, 01164E, 01178E, 01186E and 01191E 4 December 2007 This posting contains two contributions on two different aspects of vaccine stock management. James Cheyne from PATH shares ideas on vaccine needs calculation, an...

POST 01194E : NEW DOCUMENT Follow-up on Post 01188E 1st December 2007 Søren Spanner from UNICEF/India has the following remarks about the Aide-mémoire for prevention of freeze damage to vaccines. Thank you for the posting. A few comments Placing vaccines 5cm away from the evaporator does n...

POST 01191E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Posts 01114E, 01127E, 01138E, 01164E, 01178E and 01186E 25 November 2007 [log in to unmask]">Mogens Munck from Spain has some further questions on the WHO Vaccine Stock Management Package. We strongly encourage all members to share any pra...

POST 01188E : NEW DOCUMENT Aide-memoire for prevention of freeze damage to vaccines Cold chain storage is necessary to prevent damage to vaccine due to heat exposure, but keeping vaccines too cold can be just as harmful as keeping them too warm - many vaccines are damaged by freezing. WHO guidel...

POST 01186E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Posts 01138E, 01164E and 01178E 13 November 2007 This posting contains three contributions. The first is from Modibo Dicko from WHO/AFRO who cofirms that different definitions are used in the AFRO region but plays down consequences. The secon...

POST 01184E : IMMUNIZATION CAPACITY-BUILDING 10 November 2007 Readers might be interested in this, published on line as part of the series on poverty and human development this week, in Education for Health. Strengthening Immunization in a West African Country: Mali You can download the abstr...

POST 01183E : BCG AND LEPROSY 8 November 2007 This posting contains two contributions. Devesh Singh from India asks a question about the protective effect of BCG. Thanks to Uli Fruth from WHO/HQ for providing an answer. The Lancet article to which he refers is surprisingly still available on a p...

POST 01182E : RETRACTABLE SYRINGE Follow-up on Posts 01166E and 01171E 5 November 2007 In response to Vijay Kiran’ contribution, Prabir Chatterjee from India provides the following information. On the same site a would-be interesting link "Disposing Immunization Waste in India" is unavailable b...

POST 01180E : WASTE MANAGEMENT 2 November 2007 Two documents are now available on-line on the WHO Healthcare Waste Management website. "WHO core principles for achieving safe and sustainable management of health care waste". And the final version of the "International health care waste managem...

POST 01179E : ERADICATION EFFORTS Follow-up on Post 001174E 31 October 2007 This long contribution is sent by Robert Steinglass from IMMUNIZATIONbasics in the United States. "Stop the madness!" Dear Moderator, Thank you for posting Bob Davis' thoughtful piece. But at the very end, he asks:...

POST 01178E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Posts 01138E and 01164E 29 October 2007 This posting has been delayed for some technical questions. It contains three contributions. The first is from Henrique Menezes d’Alva from WHO/Mozambique. The second is from Terkula ben Alagh from Niger...

POST 01176E : PIS/PQS 24 October 2007 Dear all, WHO PQS secretariat is happy to announce official release of the PQS E10 "safety box for the disposal of used sharps" product specifications and verification protocol which were approved by the PQS steering group on 28 September 2007. The new prod...

POST 01175E : VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO VIRUS 22 October 2007 We wish to draw your attention to the Weekly Epidemiological Report of 28 September 2007 that featured a "Global update on vaccine-derived polioviruses, January 2006 - August 2007" Since 2000, increasing evidence has affirmed the need for...

POST 01174E : ERADICATION EFFORTS 20 October 2007 Robert Davis from UNICEF/ESARO proposes the following analysis of eradication efforts. Food for thought and discussion! Proof of concept for four eradication efforts: malaria, smallpox, polio, and measles MALARIA The 1955 decision by WHO's g...

POST 01173E : MALARIA VACCINE CANDIDATE 17 October 2007 Early findings from a malaria vaccine trial among African infants are promising, based on a research article published today Oct 17. In a double-blind trial of 214 infants in Mozambique, the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02D was found to be both ...

POST 01171E : RETRACTABLE SYRINGE Follow-up on Post 01166E 14 October 2007 [log in to unmask]">Vijay Kiran from India contributes the following comments raising again an important issue of disposal. We have discussed sharps disposal many times before, as recently as June and July 2007 (Posts...

POST 01167E : PIS/PQS Follow-up on Post 01040E 5 October 2007 WHO PQS secretariat is happy to announce the official release of PQS E01 and PQS E03 product specifications and verification protocols which were approved by the PQS steering group on 14 September 2007. With the approval of PQS E01 ...

POST 01166E : RETRACTABLE SYRINGE 3 October 2007 Carib Nelson from PATH is sending you the summary of the following report "Evaluation of a Retractable Syringe in South Africa". As said in his message, the full report is available upon request. NOTE : The "posting" sub-page of our website will...

POST 01165E : VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES : YOUR OPINION 1st October 2007 Craig Shapiro from WHO requests your opinion. Documents are attached as they are rather small in size. The deadline is short by the end of this week, so you must react fast. NOTE: Feedback requested by Friday, October...