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WHO and UNICEF have jointly prepared an information bulletin which addresses varied implications of different types of vaccine vial monitors (VVMs), notably VVM category type 7 (VVM7) and VVM category type 14 (VVM14), on vaccines such as the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) and the fully-liquid Dipht...

"Cleanliness is godliness". In implementing routine immunization programme, achieving timeliness/timely completeness is Godliness. By vaccinating close to the schedule through regular outreach sessions at monthly intervals, tracking vaccination status through simple paper documentation ce...

Interventions promoting hepatitis B birth dose in the Rural Medical College completed one quarter. With simple measures and zero budget, the coverage was raised from 19.14% in April to 91.89% by 30th June 2014. In these three months, timely newborn vaccination has become a part of newborn care proto...

Today we would like to share with you the Measles & Rubella Initiative Annual Report for 2013. The whole EPI team directly or indirectly has contributed to the progress reflected in this report. Specifically we would like to acknowledge Marta & the SIG team for all the data inputs and Robe...

When the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) was established 40 years ago, only around 5% of the world’s children were protected from six diseases — polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, pertussis, measles and tetanus — targeted by four vaccines. Today, that figure is 83%, with some developing ...

High risk vaccination practices: Supportive Supervision for immunizing the vaccinated. Medical Colleges can play a pivotal role in the capacity building of service providers through healthy and effective Partnership. Quantity and the ‘Quality of the quantity’ are the need of the hr/day/week/ month...

With the WHO declaration of ‘polio eradication – a public health emergency – and measles elimination by 2020’, routine immunization is gaining more importance. There is an urgency of closing the population immunity gap (lesson learnt from Syria and other countries). Primary Health Cen...

Unknown gunmen on Saturday the 28th of December 2013 opened indiscriminate fire on entering a hospital and fled from the scene. Subsequently, one polio worker, Zahid Gul, was killed on the spot whereas ward orderly Niqab Khan and a woman sustained severe injuries. Meanwhile, policemen reached the...

Wild Polio virus type 1 (WPV1) stills exists in Quetta as samples collected from the city's sewage system suggested persistence of the virus in the environment. The detection of polio virus has rung alarming bells with potential threat for millions of children of below the age of five in the cit...

I guess some of you would have followed recent developments around wild polio virus circulation in Syria where they are now clinical cases being reported. see http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_10_29/en/index.html I am trying to gather guidances, publications, reports of polio intervention among re...

by Sean Blaschke and Lilian Nabunnya, UNICEF On April 26, 2013, health workers at 3,240 health facilities in Uganda were sent the following short-message service (SMS) text message: Does your Health Unit have a cold chain fridge for vaccines? Please answer YES / NO. If you have a fridge but it is ...

Dear Friends, I must congratulate the GAVI board for taking a decision on introducing IPV. I hope the IPV would be introduced through cost effective intra-dermal method by enhancing its antigenic content and also through cost effective disposable syringe and needle method. Also the decision for inc...

Cross-posted from www.childsurvival.net with thanks! I wanted to let you know about an exciting new polio initiative announced last week. In a display of support for the new Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan, more than 400 scientists and technical experts from 80 countries issued the Scient...

by Simona Zipursky, PATH; Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey, WHO/AFRO; Olivier Ronveaux, WHO/AFRO; Sylvestre Tiendrebeogo, Consultant In November 2012, the first immunization campaign to use a controlled temperature chain (CTC) took place in Banikoara in northern Benin. MenAfriVac is a meningitis A vac...

This blog by Judith Kaufmann has been cross-posted from the Health Affairs blog. Many thanks. The week of December 17 was a grim one for the polio eradication effort in Pakistan. Seven Pakistani women health workers and two Pakistani men, all working to ensure the success of the polio campaign, ...

by Kamel Senouci and Lara Gautier, AMP Many national immunization programs rely on the professional advice of national immunization technical advisory groups (NITAGs) to help them make critical decisions on introducing new vaccines. Implemented in April 2008 by Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP)...

Watch Leema, a polio volunteer, as she goes from house to house vaccinating children in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan under extremely demanding conditions. The biggest concern for the personnel is the security in the region but that doesn't deter them from doing their job. [youtube]http://www.yo...

Many thanks to Mojtaba Haghgou for sharing this article with the forum. Vaccine cold chain functional inventory and gap analysis: Looking at all existing cold chain equipment at one go Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Iran, July 2011 By Dr. Mohsen Zahraei, EPI Manager and Mr. G. Zamani, V...

by Cecily Stokes-Prindle and Lois Privor-Dumm, IVAC It sounds like a pretty mundane question, but the answer has major implications for delivering vaccines in low- and middle-income countries. Having consulted with experts from across the world, researchers at the International Vaccine Access Cen...

by Dr. Thierno Seydou Nourou Guèye, Pharmacie Régionale d’Approvisionnement de Saint-Louis; Madjiguène Ndiaye Coulibaly, SNEIPS*; Ibrahima Leye, consultant A project in Senegal that uses a specially equipped truck to transport vaccine supplies has proven so successful that it is now being expande...