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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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Today is Innovation Day during World Immunization Week, and there are a lot of innovative ideas out there to reach every child. But innovation doesn’t always require radical new ideas. Sometimes it simply means challenging traditional approaches based on current information. For immunization supply ...
From 17 April to 1 May, the globally synchronised switch from trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) is taking place in 155 countries and territories. This will be followed by an intensive monitoring and validation phase through to 18 May.
To follow progress as co...
We are delighted to announce the creation of the Cold Chain Equipment management page on TechNet.
-->you can access the page by clicking here or through the “Resources” drop down menu on the top right of your screen
Resulting from thorough collaboration between technical assistance providers, this...
WHO has just released a new infographic that summarises how health workers can use vaccine vial monitors (VVMs) to decide whether or not to use a vaccine vial. Most notably, it presents VVM colour change as a continuous progression, rather than as four distinct stages.
A VVM is a chemical indicat...
Over the last two decades, increased investments in health have yieldedsignificant gains in health outcomesfor tens of millions of people around the world. At the same time, economic growth has raised hundreds of millions out of extreme poverty and helped fuel a vast expansion in information technol...
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Around the world a variety of professionals are involved in 'health supply chains' (the supply chain responsible for moving medicines and medical equipment from manufacture to the patient). In some countries these are professional logistics and supply chain personnel. In ot...
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On this eve of Ugadi and launch of IPV era, also expressed as 3rd phase of Mission Indradhanush(MI) by a few, we wish to share Making of Mission Mode learnt by practically doing and working together with grass-root level service providers since 2012 till date.
The tool was born sponta...
In cooperation with the Uganda Ministry of Health, PATH recently conducted a pilot study to document equipment failures in the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization cold chain.
Due to our use of purposeful sampling to locate a subset of failed cold chain equipment in Uganda, conclusion...
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Dr Rajendra KV, I.A.S, Assistant Commissioner of Puttur, Dakshina Kannada, in his speech on the occasion of Silver Jubilee Celebration of KVG Institute of Nursing, wholeheartedly expressed that he learnt many bedside operational procedures from the staff nurses, expressed his gratitu...
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We are pleased to circulate the 2nd Global Analysis of Effective Vaccine Management (EVM), 2009-2014. To date, 82 countries have conducted EVM assessments between 2009-2014, of which 26 countries have conducted the assessment twice.
The slide deck follows the same format as the 1s...
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The Academic Society Meet scheduled on 23rd March 2016 is held today as the local Govt officials were unable to attend on 23rd March 2016 due to series of IPV & Bivalent switch training. On presenting the comparative study in the Academic Society Meet, we are sharing the same w...
I have struggled unsuccessfully to link this message to a remark made by Soren Spanner a week or two ago asking whether anyone has tried to distribute vaccine to remote sites by drone? I'm surprised that a debate on this subject has not yet reached TECHNET. Luckily the global debate seems healthy! T...
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I would like to share with you a report on our latest cold chain maintenance investigation in Mozambique: "Why Fridges Fail Part 2: RTM Data for Maintenance".
We are beginning to document how remote temperature monitoring data and dashboards can be used by maintenance t...
Among the TECHNET postings on cold-chain equipment there are embedded remarks pointing towards the need to make vaccine refrigeration simpler and less expensive to procure, more responsive to energy changes and easier to use and maintain. For example, to choose a refrigerator now current WHO, UNICEF...
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India in collaboration with development partners like WHO/UNICEF/USAID/MCHIP etc has made remarkable advances in the last ten years: introduction of Measles 2nd dose, HepB vaccine including Birth dose vaccine, JE 2 doses, Pentavalent vaccine, year 2012-13 declared as year of ...
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...
A recent article on vaccine wastage from the International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health
http://www.ijcmph.com/?mno=214575
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Background: India released its first National Vaccine Policy in 2011. The country is presently developing new strategies to increase immunization...
In case this new article published in Applied Energy is of interest
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261916302793
AbstractAn intermittent solar adsorption refrigerator can supply cold needed in third world countries, especially for vaccine and medicine preservation. This paper...
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Sharing the following with techNet viewers for refining workable definitions of form / format / tool in public health for needful. Tool minimizes fatigue, promotes capacity building, makes the programme self sustained for long term, minimizes HR fatigue, mitigates financial biurden and las...
I was recently looking at the “System Sizing tool 3/3” in a 2DI3 “Technical evaluation and Methodology” a unicef publication. The publication originated from a 2DI3 SDD industry meeting.
The sizing method prescribed is based on the premise that “the daily potential solar energy supply is calculated...
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