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Written by: Kevin Pilz, USAID contractor and Bonnie Keith, RHSC Public-health systems everywhere depend upon reliable and efficient supply of medicines and health commodities to ensure positive health outcomes. Despite this, supply chains in low- and middle-income countries are rarely recognized ...

Many thanks to Mojtaba Haghgou for sharing this with our readers. The TechNet21 website will soon have a software depot from which you will be able to download VSSM and other latest software. Vaccination Supply Stock Management (VSSM) version 4.7, is a computer application, now used in the centra...

Many thanks to Diana Chang Blanc for sharing this with TechNet21 readers. Good day to you all, We are pleased to announce the “Overview Course in Supply Chain Management of Health Commodities", a new training designed to increase professionals of the health sector’s understanding of logistics ...

Malaria is recognized as a major cause of death in some parts of India. there have been recent changes in the Indian Malaria Drug Policy (in 2008) and a new Operational Guideline for 2009 is being reviewed. One issue is the reports from field based organizations that show higher slide positivity (SP...

POST 01366E: PUBLIC HEALTH E-LEARNING COURSES 23 DECEMBER 2008 ****************************************** The Global Health eLearning Center offers technical public health information to field staff. It provides Internet-based courses that: Provide useful and timely continuing education for he...

POST 01345E: DURING GLOBAL RECESSION USE SCARCE RESOURCES RESPONSIBLY (POLIO ERADICATION) FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E & 01344E 3 NOVEMBER 2008 ****************************************** FOCUS NEEDS TO SHIFT TO OVERALL WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN Before the eradication pr...

POST 01342E: POLIO ERADICATION VS CONTROL—THE DEBATE CONTINUES FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01339E & 01341E 27 OCTOBER 2008 ****************************************** The topic continues to be hotly debated and perspectives seem to differ widely. For those of you who would like a statistical update ...

POST 01174E : ERADICATION EFFORTS 20 October 2007 Robert Davis from UNICEF/ESARO proposes the following analysis of eradication efforts. Food for thought and discussion! Proof of concept for four eradication efforts: malaria, smallpox, polio, and measles MALARIA The 1955 decision by WHO's g...

POST 01173E : MALARIA VACCINE CANDIDATE 17 October 2007 Early findings from a malaria vaccine trial among African infants are promising, based on a research article published today Oct 17. In a double-blind trial of 214 infants in Mozambique, the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02D was found to be both ...

POST 01146E : IMF AND HEALTH SPENDING 23 August 2007 It is not so often that we discuss macroeconomics. Those of you interested by these questions may find the following report quite interesting. It is rather long (78 pages) and I admit that I didn’t read it all. The 7-page executive summary giv...

POST 01115E : OTHER INTERVENTIONS WITH VACCINATION 2 July 2007 Integration of other child health services with immunization has been discussed on the forum, even as recently as last May (post 01087E). There is also a string of postings on Other Interventions with Vaccination that ended in August ...

POST 00937E : THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE Follow-up on Posts 00917E, 00923E and 00931E 8 June 2006 This posting contains five contributions to the discussion. The first comes from Patrick Isingoma (mailto:[email protected]) from Uganda, followed by that of Anthony Battersby (mailto:FBA...

POST 00931E : THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE Follow-up on Posts 00917E and 00923E 27 May 2006 This posting contains three contributions. First Anthony Battersby (mailto:[email protected]) from the United Kingdom, defends further his ideas. Then Mogens Munck (mailto:[email protected]) from Spai...

POST 00893E : COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING Follow-up on Post 00888E 2 March 2006 This posting contains two contributions. The first is from Robert Steinglass (mailto:[email protected] ) from ImmunizationBasics in the United States. He shares information on another experience with com...

POST 00836E : PHARMACEUTICAL COLONIALISM IN AFRICA 28 September 2005 The article below was originally published in the "Monde diplomatique" of June 2005, and August for the English edition. It was sent by Anthony Battersby (mailto:[email protected]). Quite interesting though a little long...

POST 00817E : THIMEROSAL AND AUTISM Follow-up on Posts 00809E and 00812E 31 July 2005 Julie Milstien (mailto:[email protected]) or (mailto:[email protected]) from the United States but living in France, answers the double-spelling question. Bob Davis (mailto:rdavis@uni...

POST 00806E : MEASLES CAMPAIGN AND ITN DISTRIBUTION Follow-up on Posts 00763E, 00765E, 00767E, 00768E, 00771E, 00774E, 00778E, 00781E, 00784E, 00789E, 00789E, 00792E and 00796E 29 June 2005 This posting contains two contributions. The first, originally in French, from Marie-Christine Balley ...

POST 00796E : MEASLES CAMPAIGN AND ITN DISTRIBUTION Follow-up on Posts 00763E, 00765E, 00767E, 00768E, 00771E, 00774E, 00778E, 00781E, 00784E, 00789E, 00789E and 00792E 3 June 2005 This posting contains four short contributions. The first is from Christian Lengeler (mailto:Christian.Lengeler...

POST 00793E : OTHER INTERVENTIONS WITH VACCINATION Follow-up on Posts 00789E and 00791E 27 May 2005 Robert Steinglass (mailto:[email protected]) from ImmunizationBasics makes some comments on Bob Davis and Juan Ortiz' presentation. You will have noticed that this presentation was no...

POST 00791E : OTHER INTERVENTIONS WITH VACCINATION 21 May 2005 In the previous posting (Post 00790E), we shared a presentation by Juan Ortiz and Bob Davis on "EPI and Accelerated Child Survival". As Bob had circulated the Lancet article quoted in slide 17 through Tech Updates, I though...