Dear Colleagues, In the familiar Rivimba Delta, fragile systems, insecurity, and stretched supply lines meet urgent public health demands. One cold chain, one fleet, one community, four simultaneous threats. 📌 This week’s edition of Immunization for Resilience Newsletter explores: 🔻How to run one...

Dear TechNet colleagues, Thank you for the opportunity to share this with the community. In line with TechNet’s promotional policy, I am posting here to introduce my weekly newsletter and invite collaboration and feedback. What it is Immunization for Resilience is a weekly update that synthesizes...

Dear Colleagues,   The Africa Infodemic Response Alliance (AIRA) is Africa’s network to share safe, proven facts on health and to counter dangerous health misinformation.  An infodemic is too much information during a public health crisis - including false ...

I wish to add to the very practical and sensible Robin and Rafael discussions on Covid-19. There should be more specific stability data provided for the candidate vaccines. ULT is really a non-reality for logistics in terms of cost and maintenance for LMIC countries for a country wide pandemic (vers...

Webinar: New guidance for managing health care waste produced by your immunisation program August 20, 2020, 9:00 a.m. EST / 3:00 p.m. CEST (Geneva) REGISTER HERE:  https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_os4B34RiR0mgeELADv7yTQ  Join Gavi and UNICEF for a webinar on health care waste ma...

Dear Partners and Coleagues,   As Haier Biomedical is a manufacturer of medical cold chain for more than 20 years, recently we are always asked what cold chain solution is recommended for the Covid-19, especially for the RT-PCR Kit, virus sample and vaccine transportation and storage. T...

Recent reports [1] of counterfeit yellow fever vaccination certificates in Zambia follow reports of falsified proof of vaccination documents being used in other countries, including Ethiopia [2], India [3], Nigeria [4], Pakistan [5], Sudan [6], Uganda [7], Tanzania [8] and Zimbabwe [9]. While the Wo...

From today's Guardian Health workers face suspicion and a lack of cold storage as they test the Ebola vaccine http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/10/ebola-vaccine-trial-sierra-leone-fear-logistics-immunisations Dr Tamba Manye, who works for the World Health Organisation (WHO) i...

People who delay or refuse vaccines for themselves or their children are presenting a growing challenge for countries seeking to close the immunization gap. Globally, 1 in 5 children still do not receive routine life-saving immunizations, and an estimated 1.5 million children still die each year of ...

I hope that you will disagree with me and tell me that medical waste disposal systems in low-to-middle income countries have advanced dramatically in the last ten years. But I have the impression is that the interest that existed in the first five years of the millennium has declined and that the na...

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 ...

A new WHO Information Note concerning the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now available on the WHO website. http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/ebola/ebola-immunization-afro As a public health emergency of international concern, the recent Ebola outbreak has drawn huge global attent...

Cross-posted from the global.knowledge-gateway.org with thanks! Dear Friends, Could you please share this easy-to-digest message out to the West African public through your various means? It is very well done and provides people with the information they require to stop the spread of Ebola. An...

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