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Dear Colleagues, Paper immunization registers and register books are critical components of health information systems (HIS) for immunization programs across the globe. Even as many HIS for immunization programs and other health domains move toward electronic and mobile data collection systems, p...

Today we would like to share with you the Measles & Rubella Initiative Annual Report for 2013. The whole EPI team directly or indirectly has contributed to the progress reflected in this report. Specifically we would like to acknowledge Marta & the SIG team for all the data inputs and Robe...

When the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) was established 40 years ago, only around 5% of the world’s children were protected from six diseases — polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, pertussis, measles and tetanus — targeted by four vaccines. Today, that figure is 83%, with some developing ...

High risk vaccination practices: Supportive Supervision for immunizing the vaccinated. Medical Colleges can play a pivotal role in the capacity building of service providers through healthy and effective Partnership. Quantity and the ‘Quality of the quantity’ are the need of the hr/day/week/ month...

Unknown gunmen on Saturday the 28th of December 2013 opened indiscriminate fire on entering a hospital and fled from the scene. Subsequently, one polio worker, Zahid Gul, was killed on the spot whereas ward orderly Niqab Khan and a woman sustained severe injuries. Meanwhile, policemen reached the...

Immunogram (IgM) 2+ is completing one year from Xmas 2012 to Xmas 2013. The following is a brief write-up. On Christmas Eve of 2012, Immunogram, IgM++ was posted as a ‘gift’ to the viewers of Technet. It is completing one year by this Christmas 2013. It started with 2 session sites of one sub-cen...

Wild Polio virus type 1 (WPV1) stills exists in Quetta as samples collected from the city's sewage system suggested persistence of the virus in the environment. The detection of polio virus has rung alarming bells with potential threat for millions of children of below the age of five in the cit...

With the launch of a new Decade of Vaccines (DoV) as outlined in the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2012, the world will be embarking on ambitious strategies to introduce the next generation of new vaccines and raise vaccination coverage to desired levels,...

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 Modibo Dicko, WHO, and Motomoke Eomba, John Snow, Inc. In November 2012, more than one hundred logisticians and supply-chain experts from 29 countries met in Kigali, Rwanda, for the fifth annual Global Health Supply Chain Summit. The three-day summit provided a forum for participants to share ...

This blog by Judith Kaufmann has been cross-posted from the Health Affairs blog. Many thanks. The week of December 17 was a grim one for the polio eradication effort in Pakistan. Seven Pakistani women health workers and two Pakistani men, all working to ensure the success of the polio campaign, ...

by Dr. Thierno Seydou Nourou Guèye, Pharmacie Régionale d’Approvisionnement de Saint-Louis; Madjiguène Ndiaye Coulibaly, SNEIPS*; Ibrahima Leye, consultant A project in Senegal that uses a specially equipped truck to transport vaccine supplies has proven so successful that it is now being expande...

India has been taken off the polio endemic list. This short film, uploaded by the Gates Foundation, acknowledges the people in the field who made it possible. [youtube]FeuApCaX-o8&feature=plcp&context=C3d05e73UDOEgsToPDskKx3MV45kovP1M0bAtb6Hbj[/youtube] In a related article, T Jacob ...

by Patrick Lydon, World Health Organization; Chutima Suraratdecha, PATH; Michelle Arnot, Western Cape Department of Health; Ticky Raubenheimer, Collaborative Centre for Cold Chain Management; Arthorn Riewpaiboon, Mahidol University; and Cha-oncin Sooksriwong, Mahidol University In recent years, ...

Rationale for introducing 5-dose vials of measles vaccine for routine immunization programs. Robert Steinglass of JSI/MCHIP challenges each of us to give our opinion on our preferences for measles vaccine vial size. At the just-completed Measles Partnership Annual Meeting at the American Red C...

Many thanks! A dozen updates this week as the new vaccine pledging meeting approaches. Will the funds pledged next month cover the needs for introduction of rotavirus, pneumococcal and HPV vaccines? ‘The doubt is permitted,’ as they say in French. Here are the titles of the new technical upda...

by Steve McCarney, John Lloyd, and Joanie Robertson, PATH A group of public- and private-sector partners are collaborating with project Optimize to evaluate a range of innovative transportation and storage containers for heat-sensitive drugs and vaccines that operate in environments with or without...

Claude Letarte reminds us that 24 March 2011 was World Tuberculosis Day and shares with us links to the free BCG World Atlas published by McGill University and partners in Montreal. The Atlas is: "a first-of-its-kind, easy-to-use, searchable website that provides free detailed information on current...

Epidemiologists and public health researchers from multiple institutions are collaborating to gather and analyze the best available data on deaths and sick days caused by over 100 diseases and injuries around the world. The culmination of their work is the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. RT...

A news brief about the ongoing Measles SIA in Cambodia follows. Also attached with this post are a presentation on the SIA and the Implementation Guidelines. For further information, please contact Aun Chum, Health Officer, UNICEF Cambodia ([email protected]). Cambodia's Ministry of Health launche...