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Written by: Kevin Pilz, USAID contractor and Bonnie Keith, RHSC Public-health systems everywhere depend upon reliable and efficient supply of medicines and health commodities to ensure positive health outcomes. Despite this, supply chains in low- and middle-income countries are rarely recognized ...

Many thanks to Mojtaba Haghgou for sharing this with our readers. The TechNet21 website will soon have a software depot from which you will be able to download VSSM and other latest software. Vaccination Supply Stock Management (VSSM) version 4.7, is a computer application, now used in the centra...

James Cheyne shares with us the jointly produced (IFRC/GAVI Alliance) advocacy report on immunization, entitled "Unfinished business". The report was pre-released at the UN Palais in Geneva earlier this month and will be more formally launched at the forthcoming MDG Summit. The press re...

http://www.timesche nnai.com/ index.php? mod=article&cat=General&article=47839 Now vaccines can be stored at room temperature 02.18.2010 (GMT+5.5) London: For the first time scientists at Oxford University have found a way of keeping vaccines stable without refrigeration, even at tropica...

Dear Sir, The following report on health worker retention for better health indices is very important as in many states the health indices are unachievable due to shortage of staff at the village level. http://www.who.int/hrh/events/report_second_full_expert_meeting.pdf I have also co...

Dear Friends, A Modeling Study concludes that new vaccines could substantially reduce TB incidence and mortality. Similarily, I strongly feel that the recent 31% success with the new HIV vaccine could have been further enhanced if given in conjunction with ART. Please see the link below: http://www...

Michel and others, Thanks for suggesting two different discussion tracks. Pioneers in EPI logistics such as yourself, James Cheyne, Modibo Dicko, John Lloyd have done and continue to do a formidable job of improving storage conditions, creating VVMs, creating transportation systems to reach geo...

Temperature Monitoring Study To Commence in Vietnam and Uganda by Joanie Robertson, Huong Vu and James Cheyne, PATH While some vaccines will lose their potency if they are stored at temperatures above or below the standard 2° to 8°C, many vaccines are quite heat stable and can tolerate temperatures...

POST 01405E: OPTIMUM AGE FOR MEASLES VACCINATION FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01403E 21 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** The WHO position paper on measles vaccine says that, "The optimum age for measles vaccination depends on the local epidemiological situation and on programmatic cons...

POST 01403E: MEASLES VACCINATION SCHEDULE 17 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** Riadh Karem ([email protected]), a public health doctor from Iraq, has a question regarding the measles vaccination schedule: He says that at present there is a measles outbreak in Iraq, and that so...

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 geographical inac...

POST 01395E: SEARCH ENGINES FOR SURVEILLANCE/SMS FOR DOTS MONITORING 26 FEBRUARY 2009 ****************************************** USING SEARCH ENGINE DATA FOR SURVEILLANCE The two articles talk about how Google can be used to predict flu epidemics by analyzing search statistics in terms of IP a...

POST 01391E: VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO VIRUS 18 FEBRUARY 2009 ****************************************** In the context of the discussions on polio eradication on our forum (see POSTS: 01354E), these reports hold great interest. Cross-posting yet again from CSU, with a big thank you to Bob Davis and...

POST 01366E: PUBLIC HEALTH E-LEARNING COURSES 23 DECEMBER 2008 ****************************************** The Global Health eLearning Center offers technical public health information to field staff. It provides Internet-based courses that: Provide useful and timely continuing education for he...

POST 01356E: VACCINE RESEARCH AND INTRODUCING NEW VACCINES 25 NOVEMBER 2008 ****************************************** A Boost for Vaccine Research: (Science, Emma Hitt: 28 March 2008) A recent estimate of the global vaccine business by Lehman Brothers predicts that the vaccine industry will...

POST 01354E: POLIO ERADICATION—LET’S FINISH THE JOB FOLLOW UP ON POSTS: 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E, 01344E, 01345E, 01346E, 01348E, 01350E & 01353E 20 NOVEMBER 2008 ****************************************** NEED TO JUDICIOUSLY USE THE DIFFERENT OPVS There is no single oral poliovirus v...

POST 01353E: STOPPING POLIO ERADICATION WILL BE A HUGE BLOW TO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH FOLLOW UP ON POSTS: 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E, 01344E, 01345E, 01346E, 01348E, 01350E 19 NOVEMBER 2008 ****************************************** I apologize if I have to repeat points I thought I had made r...

POST 01345E: DURING GLOBAL RECESSION USE SCARCE RESOURCES RESPONSIBLY (POLIO ERADICATION) FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E & 01344E 3 NOVEMBER 2008 ****************************************** FOCUS NEEDS TO SHIFT TO OVERALL WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN Before the eradication pr...

POST 01341E: POLIO ERADICATION VS CONTROL—THE REAL COSTS FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01339E 25 OCTOBER 2008 ****************************************** There was also myresponse to POST 00931E in which I wrote: QUOTE About the switch from eradication to control, imagine the world asking a mountain climb...

POST 01293E: MANAGING POLIO VIRUS 23 JULY 2008 ******************************************* Both the contributions have been cross-posted from CSU. A big thank you to Bob Davis and Evelyn Chege. Meeting in Geneva in May, the governing body of the World Health Organization passed an unusual...