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 Dear all, India is more committed, last case of WPV1 was in Jan 2011, along with other 10 countries got the certificate of eradication in March 2014. But as long as there is wild virus circulating in any part of the world, threat exists and may revert back to pre-eradication era as opined by the ...

Dear viewers  For some long standing problems, solution can be very siimple - we have to just do it. For saving the children from the lethal Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPDs), they are to be vaccinated timely, with all the vaccines included in the National Immunization Schedule (NIS) and also op...

As part of the WHO African region efforts to improve immunization and surveillance performances in terms of quality, effectiveness, efficiency, coverage and equity and in order to strengthen the capacity of policy makers and health providers in countries, there is a need for accurate data in order t...

Dear viewers India is committed. In the last ten years made remarkable achievement in the field of Immunization, to name a few, eradicated polio, introduced Pentavalent, MCV 2 doses and now the MR campaign, Rota and PCV vaccines were introduced, 2012-13 was declared as year of Intensified Immunizat...

A new release of ICE (v1.8.1.0) is now available. (Download ICE v 1.8.2.0) The release includes the following changes: Updates to the Polio Vaccine Group and the Meningococcal ACWY Vaccine Group to better reflect latest guidelines, and addition of Influenza vaccine (CVX 185) to the Influenza Vac...

Dear viewers Short supply of vaciines requiring multiple doses is one of the causes of accentuating negeative dropout rate, making the indicator invalid for programme review. India introduced two fractional doses of 0.1mL intra-dermal IPV in the National Immunization Schedule (NIS) since April 201...

Dear viewers Sharing the following with the viewers who are the true Polio Eradicators / planners / managers / authorized implementers & policy makers of the programme Good intentions alone are not enough for the successful outcome. Intention of healing is always good but it can produce stricture ...

HLN has released a new version of its ICE Open Source Immunization Evaluation and Forecasting software (v 1.7.1.0) on February 24, 2017. As always, the most recent version of open source Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) can be downloaded from the Downloads page on the ICE wiki. This new relea...

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Dear all We are presenting this post for inputs from the viewers which will help us in critically reviewing the programme as an exercise for the post graduates. This may indierectly help in reaching the goals and objectives of GVAP by 2020. Context: Government of India (GOI) has launched Mission ...

Dear all I take this opportunity to share the following with the viewers as many of them are in the authorized post who can daringly and decisively "move faster" than the VPDs can kill our children / resurgence of wild virus & or cVDPVs in polio free Country / States as globally witnessed in the pa...

As many of you know, the switch to bOPV has been completed in all 155 countries and territories that were using tOPV. This has been a great achievement that brings us even closer to polio eradication! Based on the country validation reports that WHO received, approximately 140,000 health facilities...

Dear viewers Out of inquisitiveness, we studied the usage of the First IPV vial of 5 facilities and got many things to learn from the service providers of 3 attached planning units, one First Referral Unit and the vaccination clinic of our own College. These lessons are universal and hence can cert...

From 17 April to 1 May, the globally synchronised switch from trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) is taking place in 155 countries and territories. This will be followed by an intensive monitoring and validation phase through to 18 May. To follow progress as co...

Dear Viewers Dr Rajendra KV, I.A.S, Assistant Commissioner of Puttur, Dakshina Kannada, in his speech on the occasion of Silver Jubilee Celebration of KVG Institute of Nursing, wholeheartedly expressed that he learnt many bedside operational procedures from the staff nurses, expressed his gratitu...

Dear viewers Context: India in collaboration with development partners like WHO/UNICEF/USAID/MCHIP etc has made remarkable advances in the last ten years: introduction of Measles 2nd dose, HepB vaccine including Birth dose vaccine, JE 2 doses, Pentavalent vaccine, year 2012-13 declared as year of ...

A recent article on vaccine wastage from the International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health http://www.ijcmph.com/?mno=214575 Abstract Background: India released its first National Vaccine Policy in 2011. The country is presently developing new strategies to increase immunization...

Dear all Sharing the following with techNet viewers for refining workable definitions of form / format / tool in public health for needful. Tool minimizes fatigue, promotes capacity building, makes the programme self sustained for long term, minimizes HR fatigue, mitigates financial biurden and las...

Dear viewers In one of the Training of Trainers programme in 1990’s at Chennai, a resource person told that ‘ASA’ – Attention, Suspicion and Authority are the 3 important elements of any good surveillance. Through high sensitivity, observational capacity, timely reporting often rare syndromes were...

Twenty-three speakers including 21 representatives from Member States (i.e. 15[2]), and two civil society organizations[4] and took note of the recommendations. While Member States acknowledged successes in a few areas, most notably the absence of wild polio virus cases in the African region and mo...