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Commentary paper authored by me, Kelly Lynn Moore and John Lloyd "Logistical challenges for potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and a call to research institutions, developers and manufacturers" is now available online in VACCINE journal. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/p...

The challenge before us is an enormous one – many lives hang in the balance. But never in the history of the world have we had as many resources available to craft solutions as we do today. When a Covid-19 vaccination is developed, we have the benefit of innovative homegrown tech that already exists...

Dear colleagues, As we start the process of planning for re-start of campaigns, I wanted to highlight a new app developed by the WHO academy to providehealth workers with mobile access to a wealth of COVID-19 knowledge resources, that include up-to-the-minute guidance, tools, training, and vir...

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...

Chers collègues, Nous sommes tous préoccupés par l'impact de la Covid-19 sur la vaccination au fur et à mesure de l'évolution de la pandémie. Le besoin de données actualisées est important. Notre objectif est d'harmoniser les efforts actuels de collecte de données sur l'impact dans toutes les régio...

Dear colleagues, We are all concerned about the impact of Covid on immunization as the pandemic evolves. The need for up-to-date data is high. Going forward our goal is to harmonize the ongoing efforts of data collection on the impact from all regions, but to have a quick idea of how immunization s...

An Immunization Pulse Poll in the context of COVID-19 conducted between 14 and 24 April, with 801 responses from 107 countries, showed that disruption to the routine immunization program are widespread and affect all WHO regions. 64% of countries represented in the poll indicated that routine immuni...

PROMOTING EQUITY THROUGH SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN June 3, 2020, 4:00-5:00pm CEST REGISTER HERE: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EoDaBqqkRaSFRLgKo9Fk6Q  Join VillageReach and JSI for a discussion on how supply chains can be adapted to be more responsive to the needs of under-served populat...

The International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) hosted a series of webinars to celebrate World Immunization Week 2020. This webinar series featured IVAC experts speaking on the current and future state of vaccines around the world, and included:  Measuring the economic impact of vaccines VoI...

TechNet has recently released a page that gathers major technical guidance documents from WHO on maintaining immunization services during the Covid-19 pandemic: https://www.technet-21.org/en/topics/covid-19  Currently, you'll find global guidance as well as guidance from WHO regions. In a...

Dear Technet community, Hope you’re well. I’d like to share a short article I wrote (published on May 15) making the case to immediately start planning for COVID-19 immunization delivery and suggesting activities to focus on now. The article focuses on India, but the core points and suggestions fo...

Protecting Health Workers: Supply Chain Adaptation in the Time of COVID-19 Thu, May 21, 2020 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CEST https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1043574380419287052 Join VisionSpring and VillageReach to explore how social enterprises are pivoting their organizational capacity and util...

Dear Colleagues, The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Boost Community, in partnership with TechNet-21 and The Geneva Learning Foundation, are happy to offer an interactive webinar: How Immunization Professionals Can Address Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) During COVID-19. This webinar...

Dear TechNet-21 Community,   Presenting you with the WHO and UNICEF joint statement encouraging greater health commodity supply chain integration for temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals updated to provide interim guidance for COVID-19 response.   Happy reading! Michelle Seidel UNIC...

Dear All, I was recently asked to write an article about "getting ahead of the curve" in terms of capacitating the cold chain in anticipation of the Covid-19 vaccine and of course as the world starts to lift the lockdown, the imminent catch-up programs for routine vaccination programs . I would wel...

A novel way of visualizing daily updated COVID-19 country statistics. Click on the link and your country will be added. https://corona-stats.mobi/  ...

Objective Provide guidance regarding the operation of immunization programs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Context Sharing herewith PAHO’s recommendations which provides guidance regarding the operation of immunization programs in the Region of the Americas in the context of the COVID-1...

  If pregrant women is COVID-19 positive and deliver baby, how it is important to give Hep.B, BCG and birth dose of OPV, or we can differ the vaccination till mother is fully recovered. Please suggest....

  IN  incase of  lockdown due to COVID -19 pandamic, if immunization services  is  temporarily deferred up to one month . My qurries  is if  2nd dose Pentvalent or OPV  is given  after 2 to 3  months later is there any changes in the vaccine  e...

Dear colleagues, All are welcome to join the Health Data Collaborative (HDC) facilitated event on DHIS2 COVID-19 packages (attached and summary below), presented by University of Oslo, with  opportunities for questions and discussion.   There will be two opportunities to join the webex c...