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Sustaining interest in a programme for several years is not an easy task. India conducted 44 rounds of Pulse Polio including the current round in Jan 2016. Many got retired but still proactively involve themselves in the pulse polio programme as national festival. Little creative simplifying cha...

We have shared the ‘Power of Peer Education’ to be followed by two write-ups on 1. 3 ‘D’s Affect: Duelist – the Determinant of Denominators and 2. Making of All Time Mission Mode [ATM(M)] outreach sessions. Background: Following the first round of Intensification of Routine Immunization (IRI) i...

The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on immunization (SAGE) convened by WHO on 20 October 2015 has confirmed that the globally coordinated withdrawal of the type 2 component in the oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) will take place in April 2016. SAGE’s landmark decision follows the endorsement by th...

Dear all India is committed. Eradicated polio; achieved ~65% Full Immunization Coverage by 2013-14, aims to achieve >90% by 2020 through Mission Indradhanush (MI). MI districts are on war foot and in mission mode to achieve the objectives. Service providers from the government, ANMs/AWWs/ASHAs/USHA...

WHO recommends 2 temperature ranges for keeping all vaccines at health facilities (+2C +8C) and (-15C -25C) for OPV above district level. The rationale for using first range is explained in “Thermostability of vaccines”. What is the reason for use of second range (-15C -25C) for OPV and some freez...

Thirty countries have now introduced IPV vaccine as part of objective 2 of the Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan. In August, the second of the polio endemic countries, Pakistan, introduced IPV nationally. There are now 30 countries that have introduced the vaccine. Nigeria, the other ende...

As you may know, immunization was on the agenda at the World Health Assembly in May. This year, PATH listened specifically for references to immunization supply chains and logistics. A few official statements mentioned supply chain, cold chain or logistics, but usually in a list of issues to be add...

A week before (on 28-05-2015) when a couple came with an immunization card developed in a tertiary care centre which created confusion as to what all vaccines thier child should receive made Sampaje team to evolve a user frindly immunization card. This card is evolved considering National Immunizati...

Well-planned, adequately funded communications affect the success of immunization services and are particularly needed to achieve vaccination coverage goals and maintain trust in vaccines. A communications plan and its activities – such as media briefings, stakeholder engagement, and social mobil...

Karnataka completed more than 2 scores of pulse polio rounds (43) since 1995. Learning by doing and working together is a continuous process. Planning unit is a template and hence the lessons learnt from one model unit can benefit 2300+ & 23500+ units of Karnataka & the country respectively...

In its January 2015 meeting, the WHO Executive Board called on all Member States to accelerate preparation for a globally coordinated switch from trivalent to bivalent OPV in April 2016. The Board’s request follows the WHO SAGE announcement in October 2014 that preparations are on track for this imp...

The January 2015 edition of the IVAC VIMS Report on Global Vaccine Introduction is now available at http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/ivac/vims/IVAC-VIMS-Report-2015-Jan.pdf New in the January edition is the addition of an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) section in the report....

Twenty-seven speakers including 22 representatives from Member States (i.e. 16 Executive Board Members and 6 non-Executive Board Members), four civil society organizations and one pharmaceutical manufacturer association took the floor during the discussion on the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP)....

Thinking Globally: On 06th Nov 2014, in the training workshop on MDVP/Open vaccine vial policy, the PHC staff were sensitized about two rounds of pulse polio (NID 2015); shared the global concerns of polio eradication programme: 1. closing the population immunity gap 2. reaching the unreached espe...

Global commitment eradicated polio in 4 regions. Before eradication, globally an estimated 959 cases used to occur per day which is now reduced to...

This is the third posting I have made on in-country transport of vaccine. The first two postings opened issues for discussion on vaccine storage temperatures and on optimizing inter-store transfers. This posting focuses on transport for outreach immunization in the context of a passive-cooled supply...

WHO's “Guidelines on the international packing and shipping of vaccines” clearly defines the temperature conditions for vaccines in three groups of stability up to a maximum travel duration of 48 hours. Guidelines for in-country transport cannot yet be found in a single document but are scattered am...

Interesting article from Bloomberg. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-17/ebola-vaccine-challenge-motorbikes-and-kerosene-fridges.html This section on the supply chain challenges is particularly interesting: Muddy Roads “Even if we decide not to use the vaccine during this outbreak and ...

The budget impact of controlling wastage with smaller vials: A data driven model of session sizes in Bangladesh, India (Uttar Pradesh), Mozambique, and Uganda. W Yang, M Parisi, B Lahue, J Uddin, D Bishai - Vaccine, 2014 Link to full Article. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264...

Pakistan Vaccine Logistics Management Information System (vLMIS) Release 2 went Live this week: vLMIS release 2 is a single web based integrated platform for reporting Routine Immunization, VSSM, CCEM2 and SDMS software. The portal has below modules with respective dashboards, reports, graphs, an...