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POST 01164E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Post 01138E 30 September 2007 The following contribution comes from Femi Odegbami from Nigeria Dear Moderator and TechNet21 readers, I would like to thank to Dr Asfar and Dr Kartoglu for this important document. Naturally this publication ...

POST 01162E : NEEDLE REMOVER ASSESSMENT 26 September 2007 It is Guyana’s turn to publish a needle removers’ assessment (865K). It was sent by Nicole Dupré of Initiatives Inc., and forwarded with very positive comments by James Cheyne and Carib Nelson both from PATH.. I think this may be the br...

POST 01161E : MEASLES VACCINATION AND BHS Follow-up on Post 01154E 23 September 2007 The following comment is from Anthony Battersby from the United Kingdom. I make further comments on this issue below. Do not even think of selecting measles immunisation as a proxy for access to basic health...

POST 01160E : QUESTIONS ON CCM CARDS Follow-up on Post 01155E 29 september 2007 The following contribution is from Ümit Kartoglu from WHO in response to Nihal Babalioglu’s request. I apologize to Nihal for having addressed her as him... Dear Dr Babalioglu, I am not clear whether this is a t...

POST 01158E : VACCINE OUT-OF-THE-COLD-CHAIN 17 September 2007 The following article describes the use of an out-of-the-cold-chain immunization strategy to improve the timeliness of the HB birth dose in rural China. It showed a large improvement in the ability to reach newborns within 24 hours of...

POST 01157E : VACCINATION IN SCHOOLS : REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 14 September 2007 The following request comes from Jhilmil Bahl from WHO. You are invited to share the information with the forum too. It may interest many other members. We (in WHO/IVB) have been trying to collect data on countri...

POST 01155E : QUESTIONS ON CCM CARDS 8 September 2007 The following questions come from Nihal Babalioglu presumably from Turkey. Please relpy directly to him with copy to Technet I would appreciate if I can get the answers to my questions as soon as possible. 1.) Ideally, how many vaccine col...

POST 01153E : STOCK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Follow-up on Posts 01138E, 01127E and 01114E 4 September 2007 Dear Technet21 E-Forum, It is very encouraging that UNICEF/WHO have now produced a Vaccine Stock Management tool. At central level and regional levels, where vaccine forecasting is usually don...

POST 01152E : REVISED WHO POSITION PAPER ON ROTAVIRUS VACCINES 2 September 2007 Please note that a revised WHO position paper on rotavirus vaccines has just been published in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record. The paper is available in English and French. It will shortly be translated into A...

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 Olivier Blanchet from Doctors Without Borders in...

POST 01146E : IMF AND HEALTH SPENDING 23 August 2007 It is not so often that we discuss macroeconomics. Those of you interested by these questions may find the following report quite interesting. It is rather long (78 pages) and I admit that I didn’t read it all. The 7-page executive summary giv...

TECHNET21 E-FORUM Technical network for strengthening immunization services Contributions to: [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] or use your reply button! POST 01145E : VACCINE PREVENTABLE MORTALITY Follow-up on Post 01136E 21 August 2007 Please note that an error occurred in Arch...

POST 01142E : PQS DOCUMENTS : DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS 16 August 2007 Dear all, Final drafts of the PQS E10 category performance_ specifications and verification_protocol for safety box for the disposal of used sharps are now available. We would appreciate your comments to finalize the documents. ...

POST 01141E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS Follow-up on Posts 01125E and 01133E 15 August 2007 This posting contains three contributions. The first is from John Lloyd from PATH. Then Dereje Ayalew explains his question further, using a table. Finally Alejo Bejemino from the Philippines, also wit...

POST 01139E : QUESTIONS ON OPV Follow-up on Post 01128E 12 August 2007 This posting contains two contributions in response to André Yaméogo's question. The first comes from Steven_Wassilak of the CDC, and the second is a joint contribution by Hans_Everts and Benjamin_ Nkowane from the Polio Era...

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 01137E : CERVICAL CANCER PREVENTION 9 August 2007 The following new materials especially on cervical cancer prevention and HPV vaccine are sent to you by : Scott_Wittet, Advocacy and Communication, Cervical Cancer Vaccine Project, PATH This message is sent in the "forward" mode to preserve...

POST 01136E : VACCINE-PREVENTABLE MORTALITY 7 August 2007 Colleagues, I think this new pie graph from UNICEF/GAVI will be of interest. It shows that 25% of under-5 mortality is still vaccine-preventable. I believe that this pie chart is an improvement over the very familiar pie graph that emer...

POST 01132E : FRONT-OPENING REFRIGERATORS Follow-up on Post 01125E 3 August 2007 This posting contains two contributions. The first is from Kaushik_B anerjee from WHO/HQ, and the second from Ian_Tansley from the United Kingdom. This last will likely provoke some reactions. Many if not a majorit...

POST 01131E : TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICES - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Follow-up on Post 01123E 30 July 2007 In response to Idrissa Yalcouyé’s request, [log in to unmask]">Terry [log in to unmask]">Hart from India points out that he made presentations at two separate meetings during the l...