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We're excited to announce a two-part webinar series dedicated to the Vaccine Vial Monitor (VVM), the simple yet transformative tool that has helped ensure vaccine potency worldwide for three decades.
Session 1: 30 Years of VVM: A RetrospectiveJoin us for a look back at three decades of the VVM, f...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the new Implementing integrated health campaigns: decision-making and planning guide (available in English and French), which provides a practical framework to help countries assess opportunities for campaign integration and plan integrated health cam...
Gender-related barriers continue to affect equitable access to immunization services and outcomes. Addressing these barriers is essential to improving coverage, reaching zero-dose children, and ensuring that no one is left behind.
Join us on 13 October 2026 for the launch webinar of the n...
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Nouveau VVM with IPV Vaccine
I believe that IPV vaccine is avaliable with VVM 14 and 30. VVM 14 color changes faster, can we use IPV with VVM 30 for immunization program? Any price difference between VVM 14 and 30?
Can someone help to respond?...
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to share our recent publication evaluating the use of mobile-money payments during Côte d’Ivoire’s October 2023 national polio immunization campaign. The study analyzes the financial implications of shifting from cash to digital disbursement and provides eviden...
Dear colleagues, I am sharing a recent article on vaccination timeliness that I found very interesting in the context of assessing immunization programme performance (in additon to, say, coverage):
"Vaccination timeliness is a key measure of immunisation system performance: A call to address priori...
TechNet has published a new page that contains a huge list of user guides for WHO-PQS prequalified cold chain equipment temperature monitoring devices. It is organised into the following sections:
Shipping indicators
Freeze indicators
Threshold indicators
Vaccine Vial Monitors (VVM)
Remote te...
Nouveau Solo, Going
This is a bittersweet announcement. My boss, colleague, mentor, and friend Souleymane ('Solo') Kone, logistician extraordinaire, is retiring at the end of this month. He is far too modest to mark the event, and would likely slip quietly away into the Malian sunset if he was permitted to do so...
Bu...
Dear colleagues -
As many of you are already aware, New Horizons will be concluding our operations by end of this year. To minimize disruption to countries and partners, we have worked diligently over the past months to identify and transition a variety of critical tools and workstreams to oth...
The Zero-Dose Learning Hub has launched a new toolkit to help country teams, partners, and technical groups apply theory-based evaluation to strengthen immunization programming. The resource offers practical guidance on developing and revisiting theories of change, clarifying assumptions, and mappin...
Nouveau To calculate drop out rate
Which indicator is best to calculate drop out rate for Penta 1 to 3
1. MR 1st dose to Penta 3rd dose
2. Penta 1st dose to Penta 3rd dose ...
Nouveau Vaccine failure
How to classify between primary and secondary vaccine failure?
Can some one help respond?
Thanks...
The Immunization Economics Community of Practice are holding a webinar on 10 December 2025 at 15:00 Central European Time on the cost of reaching zero-dose children, click here to register now!
Presenters will share a global synthesis of the evidence on the cost of reaching zero-dose children, as w...
Nouveau cVDPV 3 or type 1 poliovirus
I believed even countries maintaining high routine immunization coverage for OPV and IPV also detected cVDPV 3 or Type I poliovirus in enviromental sample, so whether cVDPV or type 1 polio virus is imported or mutated originated strain within the country.
1. If it is imported what could be the mode...
Come learn how implementation research is helping immunization programmes reach zero dose children!
Under the MAINSTREAM project, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department at WHO in collaboration with local mentor institutes have...
Request for Expression of Interest (EOI): Development, Manufacturing, and Distribution of Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) and Enzyme Immunoassays (EIAs) for Acute Typhoid Fever Surveillance
Typhoid fever (TF) is a severe systemic illness associated with abdominal pain, fever and occasionally can be l...
Join us on 8 December at 15h30 CET for a webinar introducing post market monitoring of cold chain equipment.
Post Market Monitoring (PMM) of immunization cold chain equipment (CCE) involves collecting and analysing performance data from health and storage facilities to support timely correcti...
Join us next Monday for an exciting webinar discussing Lessons Learned from the Big Catch-up!
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department at WHO in collaboration with local partners have conducted case studies of the BCU i...
Dear Madam/Sir,
This is to inform you that WHO published, on 21 November 2025, an RFP named Long Term Agreement for the provision of Technical Support to SAGE Executive Secretariat ref [WHO-SHQ-RFP-25-3063]
The RFP is published on the United Nations Global Market website here,&n...
Nouveau 30 DTR
If 30 DTR is kept inside the refrigerator to monitor the vaccine temperature, do we need to keep freeze alert or freeze tag also together with 30 DTR or not?
Can some one help to respone.
Thank you ...
Hello TechNet colleagues,
I’m excited to share a new resource from VillageReach that highlights the critical role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in expanding equitable access to immunization services. The resource - Elevating CHWs Role in Immunization: The Key to Equita...
To mark World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day on 17 November, VillageReach invites you to the online premiere of our short film, Peer-to-Peer Learning to Improve HPV Vaccine Coverage.
This film highlights how communities in Manica Province, Mozambique are working together to improve HPV v...
The World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Japan International Cooperation Agency are collaborating to strengthen implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health. In 2023, the three organizations jointly published the guide Strengthenin...
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