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Polio virus has been reported in a seven-year-old female child. Polio remains a threat to the children of Baluchistan. Baluchistan has recorded 69 cases in the year 2011 and two at the start of 2012. The worsening situation with regard to polio is a great cause for concern, for foreign donors have ...

We must correct imbalanced global investments within the world of immunization by Robert Steinglass, Immunization Senior Advisor, JSI and Immunization Team Leader, MCHIP (13 June 2012) In recent years, the world of immunization has been dominated by a focus on life-saving vaccines and the prev...

Hi All, After several years of working in Immunization related activities to help others, I find myself on the other side of the fence, with a 2 month old baby, in Senegal, trying to get her shots. She was born in the US, and we opted not do the HEP B at birth and figured to start at 2 months. We w...

by Magda Robert and Laurie Werner, Decade of Vaccines Collaboration Over the past year, the Decade of Vaccines (DoV) Collaboration has been developing a Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP). The plan is now being finalized and will be presented for endorsement at the 65th World Health Assembly, to ...

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 ...

I agree with Mansoor, on many occasions vaccination alone cannot protect children well. Using India's experiences, improving water sanitation and its key messages in polio eradication, we all should use the opportunity of new vaccine introduction to communicate with the community about all preventiv...

Cross posted from http://www.childsurvival.net with many thanks to Robert Davis NOTE FROM ROBERT DAVIS INVITING CONTRIBUTIONS The Expanded Programme on Immunization, now the world's largest public health programme, is approaching its fortieth birthday. It got started in a small suite of offi...

In late 90's we are hearing about '0' OPV . To start with '0' meant one which is not entered in the immunization card. It can be administered on the day of birth ( 0 day) or within 2 weeks so that there will be a gap of 4 weeks between the 2 drops of potent OPV given in this period and the first dos...

Both the care takers and the service providers generally believe that by administering the vaccines one gets protected against the VPD's. But it's well known that neither the vaccine has 100% efficiency nor the immune system of all will respond uniformly. This intrinsic factor becomes the 'Limiting'...

This article appears in the 23 June 2011 issue of Vaccine: "Assessing the potency of oral polio vaccine kept outside of the cold chain during a national immunization campaign in Chad". This study provides proof-of-concept evidence that certain typs of OPV remain potent and thus can be kept, for limi...

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...

VSSM INTRODUCTION AT NATIONAL VACCINE STORE ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (By Ghulam Taqi) Country Background: Pakistan is the largest country in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region: With Four Provinces and three areasThe total population approximately 167 million.Annual Birth Cohort approx...

Dear Sir,Based on the PATH report, we must immediately demand from DCGI office or GOI for use of IPV through Intradermal Route as well, otherwise people would be cheated as they have been with Rabies vaccine. Though I disagree with the report on one point that is a device is required for effective d...

I have one suggestion on a different topic for which I need comments from experts.  In Polio Eradication programs, the Non-Polio Entero virus rates in the stool specimens is taken as a proxy indicator of adequate stools and effective reverse cold chain. This indicator becomes all the more important ...

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...

Many thanks to Emily Griswold, PATH, for sharing this document with TechNet21 readers.  PATH and Working in Tandem, Ltd., recently released a report entitled “Improving the affordability of inactivated poliovirus vaccines (IPV) for use in low- and middle-income countries: an economic analysis ...

In my humble opinion Michel and Robert have asked a useful question. Very often polio or other campaigns displace Measles and Bcg in subdistrict stores. The unwritten convention is to move them to the freezer. Especially since the vials are not as breakable as the old ampoules used earlier Usually f...

Vaccine vial monitor use, policy, and practices in four regionsby Julie Milstien, independent consultant While the benefits of using vaccine vial monitors (VVMs) in immunization programs are widely known, a recently completed study of VVM use and availability shows that their use is still not univer...

Smallpox vaccination-induced immune responses may help combat HIV?BMC IMMUNOLOGY 11:23,doi 10.86/1471-2172-11-23 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2172/11/23/abstract http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7734527/Withdrawal-of-smallpox-vaccine-contributed-to-spread-of-HIV.html Ending smallp...

New bivalent polio vaccine simplifies logistics in hard-to-reach areasby Ian Lewis, UNICEF Supply Division Since 2005, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has increasingly used monovalent oral polio vaccines (OPVs) in the fight against the two wild poliovirus strains still in circulation ...