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POST 00646E : IMPROVING COVERAGE Follow-up on Post 00642E 5 March 2004 This posting contains two contributions. The first is from Gasse (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from UNICEF Headquarters. It is likely to generate much discussion. The PowerPoint presentation to which GASSE refers is i...

POST 00647E : COMBATING RUMOURS Follow-up on Post 00619E and 00643E 8 March 2004 Note : Following the posting of the TechNet21 Annual Report, some members asked the meaning of the various terms in the statistics tables about use of our site. True that I should have put these in the repor...

POST 00643E : COMBATING RUMOURS Follow-up on Post 00619E 27 February 2004 A massive polio immunization effort has just been completed where 63 million children were vaccinated in a synchronized manner across 10 West African countries. This was highly critical for reaching the goal of eradica...

POST 00633E : POLIO ERADICATION 14 January 2004 Tomorrow (already today for many of you) at 13:50pm in WHO, Ministers of Health from Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Niger, Nigeria and Pakistan will sign the historical Geneva Declaration for the Eradication of Poliomyelitis. The declaration has...

POST 00633E : POLIO ERADICATION 14 January 2004 Tomorrow (already today for many of you) at 13:50pm in WHO, Ministers of Health from Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Niger, Nigeria and Pakistan will sign the historical Geneva Declaration for the Eradication of Poliomyelitis. The declaration has...

POST 00630E : END OF POLIO 11 January 2004 Already a few months ago, UNICEF Press Center had announced that the famous Brazilian journalist and Special Representative Sebastião Salgado was publishing his latest book "The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease". Many of you may already...

POST 00619E : COMBATING RUMOURS 13 December 2003 UNICEF Regional Office for East and Southern Africa (ESARO) has produced a report two years ago with the help of Joyce Kramer, on antivaccination rumours and how to combat them. The topics has lost no relevance and this popular document is regul...

POST 00494E : PROTECTION OF MORE COLD-SENSITIVE VACCINES Follow-up on Posts 00400E, 00412E, 00419E, 00428E, 00475E, 00480E, 00482E, 00484E, 00490E and 00491E 31 August 2002 Anthony Battersby (mailto:[log in to unmask]) from FBA Health Systems Analysts, UK makes two contributions about the tw...

POST 00468E : ELIMINATION OF POLIO FROM AFRICA BY 2005 2 July 2002 Many of you have followed with interest the meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the Group of Eight (G8) recently held in Kananaskis, Canada. The initiative taken by African States in adopting the New Partnership fo...

POST 00465E : EUROPE POLIO-FREE 21 June 2002 Claudia Drake (mailto:[email protected]) from WHO's Global Polio Eradication Initiative, is pleased to share with us the news that the European Region of WHO has been certified polio-free. Attached are the press releases issued for the occasion, bot...

POST 00433E: IMPACT OF VACCINE VIAL MONITORS (VVM) ON THE USE and DELIVERY OF MEASLES VACCINE 5 MARCH 2002 Umit Kartoglu, WHO/Vaccine and Biologicals/Access to Technologies informs us with a recently planned VVM impact study on the use and delivery of measles vaccine in Vietnam. The study pr...

POST 00433E: IMPACT OF VACCINE VIAL MONITORS (VVM) ON THE USE and DELIVERY OF MEASLES VACCINE 5 MARCH 2002 Umit Kartoglu, WHO/Vaccine and Biologicals/Access to Technologies informs us with a recently planned VVM impact study on the use and delivery of measles vaccine in Vietnam. The study pr...

POST 00433E: IMPACT OF VACCINE VIAL MONITORS (VVM) ON THE USE and DELIVERY OF MEASLES VACCINE 5 MARCH 2002 Umit Kartoglu, WHO/Vaccine and Biologicals/Access to Technologies informs us with a recently planned VVM impact study on the use and delivery of measles vaccine in Vietnam. The study pr...

POST 00426E : Needle-free injector for mass immunization campaigns 16 February 2002 Follow-up discussion on TechNet21 Postings 00405E, 00408E, 00411E, 00147E and 00420E The recent dialogue on how and where to license a new needle-free injector illustrates a larger generic problem with adoption an...

POST 00422E : FREEZE PROTECTION IN VACCINE REFRIGERATORS Follow-up to Post 00416E 15 February 2002 Robert Davis of UNICEF thinks that Carib Nelson raises a very interesting question. "My first take", he says "is that it's a promising idea. We have to consider : will both big and small fr...

POST 00422E : FREEZE PROTECTION IN VACCINE REFRIGERATORS Follow-up to Post 00416E 15 February 2002 Robert Davis of UNICEF thinks that Carib Nelson raises a very interesting question. "My first take", he says "is that it's a promising idea. We have to consider : will both big and small fr...

POST 00422E : FREEZE PROTECTION IN VACCINE REFRIGERATORS Follow-up to Post 00416E 15 February 2002 Robert Davis of UNICEF thinks that Carib Nelson raises a very interesting question. "My first take", he says "is that it's a promising idea. We have to consider : will both big and small fr...

POST 00422E : FREEZE PROTECTION IN VACCINE REFRIGERATORS Follow-up to Post 00416E 15 February 2002 Robert Davis of UNICEF thinks that Carib Nelson raises a very interesting question. "My first take", he says "is that it's a promising idea. We have to consider : will both big and small fr...

POST 00417E : NEEDLE-FREE INJECTOR FOR MASS IMMUNIZATION CAMPAIGN Follow-up on Posts 00405E, 00408E and 00411E 22 January 2002 Hans Everts of WHO, tells us that some ten years ago he has worked extensively with now outlawed models of jet injectors in the field. The ethical question raised by M...

POST 00400E : PROTECTION OF MORE COLD SENSITIVE VACCINES Follow-up to Post00391E (26 November 2001) and Post00386 (23 October 2001) 19 December 2001 CAN CURRENT VVMs BE USED TO PREVENT FREEZING? Post00391E, point 3 In Post 00391E, James Cheynes from PATH had suggested that WHO calls for in...