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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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We wish to share the attached PPT on anti rabies vaccine administration presented in the integrated teaching session to the PGs & Faculties of departments of KVG Medical College.
The ppt is free for editing for fur...
Most of the countries now have improved immunization coverages and reach more children with vaccination, but we still need to monitor the potency of vaccines that are given on top of the high coverages we have achieved in many countries.
One of the biggest challenges when we talk about vaccine pot...
AWAY WITH THE DOGMA! 1: “Monitoring Closed Vial Wastage”
This is the first Blog in a series to encourage vaccine supply chain planners to consider changes without being constrained by some, dogmatic operational policies of the Expanded Program on Immunization. Taking one issue at a time I shall ...
Three years after the freeze-free concept was reported at the September 2014 meeting of the WHO PQS Committee, the current expectation of availability remains ‘sometime next year’ and it appears that no product has passed the pre-qualification (E004/VC02-VP.1) testing yet.
The current status of thi...
Nouveau Fake drugs
Here is a link to an interesting article that a colleague sent me: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/11/28/tens-thousands-dying-from-30b-fake-drugs-trade-who-says.html
Basically, it reports on a study of the (potential) extent of damage from fake, adulterated or expired vaccines. My question is m...
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Please find the attached example, illustrating the grievous impact of using vaccination cards that are not compatible with the current National Immunization Schedule (NIS). As per the study conducted recently, >10% beneficiaries avail vaccination services from the private sector ranging fr...
IAPHL are debating the agenda for their next Webinar. Some are suggesting a focus on aspects of logistics integration for CD and NCD programs. For me, this is the 'Elephant-in-the-room' of future distribution strategy for country health pogrammes. Incorporating the distribution of vaccines and the f...
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I am developing a post-graduate research proposal for submission in an academic institution to improve service delivery and continous quality improvement. The topic isTHE KNOWLEDGE (understanding and perception) OF & REPORTING PATTERN OF ADVERSE EVENTS FOLLOWING IMMUNIZATION (AE...
Good day...i'm planning to use EVM as one of my tools to acess the vaccine management in my country in few selected primary health care centers in remote areas. Clearly my country is not using this model....is it advisable for personal research use? Im quite attracted to the scopes that the survey c...
A new area focused on home-based records (HBRs) has been added to TechNet! This new HBR topic area, which can be accessed at https://www.technet-21.org/en/topics/home-base-records or www.homebasedrecords.org, further builds on prior sites aimed at raising awareness of HBRs as critical tool within im...
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For some long standing problems, solution can be very siimple - we have to just do it.
For saving the children from the lethal Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPDs), they are to be vaccinated timely, with all the vaccines included in the National Immunization Schedule (NIS) and also op...
Electronic immunization registries (EIRs) and other immunization information systems can be powerful tools, but in order to achieve their long-term sustainability, countries and governments must understand the financial investment to develop, implement, and sustain such tools as the BID Initiative's...
Nouveau Role of telehealth for EPI
Greetings:
What is the potential and actual role of telehealth for EPI?
Telenetdoctor.com has designed a program that measures the monitoring and preventive care applications between physicians and patients/children.
Appreciate your reply.
Lawrence
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A new app of The Vaccine Handbook is now available from the Immunization Action Coalition. The free app, which is available for Apple iPhones and iPads only, contains the complete 2017 (6th) edition of The Vaccine Handbook (“The Purple Book”), by Dr. Gary Marshall, professor of pediatrics and chief ...
CDC published Progress in Childhood Vaccination Data in Immunization Information Systems—United States, 2013–2016 (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/pdfs/mm6643a4-H.pdf) in the November 3 issue of MMWR (pages 1178–81). A summary made available to the press is reprinted below. IISs [Immunizatio...
As part of the WHO African region efforts to improve immunization and surveillance performances in terms of quality, effectiveness, efficiency, coverage and equity and in order to strengthen the capacity of policy makers and health providers in countries, there is a need for accurate data in order t...
The IPM Project (funded by the Gates Foundation and "MSD for Mothers" - Merck - and implemented by the Senegalese Ministry of Health with technical support from Intrahealth International) managed to cross the "Death Valley" where many projects die after successful pilot phases. Indeed, since October...
PAHO have released a few interesting articles on ICT and Data in their Immunization Newsletter.
Please see attached for further reading....
IAC recently updated its 3-page resource, Skills Checklist for Vaccine Administration, a tool to help assess staff members' and your own skills in administering vaccines. This resource, which is adapted from the California Department of Public Health's Immunization Branch, has been fully updated wit...
WHO guidelines on ethical issues in public health surveillance
World Health Organization, 2017
ISBN: 978-92-4-151265-7
The WHO Guidelines on Ethical Issues in Public Health Surveillance is the first international framework of its kind, it fills an important gap. The goal of the guideline developm...
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