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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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Interesting paper on system design in Nigeria from Health Affairs.
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One of the major problems facing Nigeria’s vaccine supply chain is the lack of adequate vaccine storage facilities. Despite the introduction of solar-powered refrigerators and the use of new tools to monitor supply levels,...
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In one of the Training of Trainers programme in 1990’s at Chennai, a resource person told that ‘ASA’ – Attention, Suspicion and Authority are the 3 important elements of any good surveillance.
Through high sensitivity, observational capacity, timely reporting often rare syndromes were...
Within the next ten years access will be extended to immunization for the families of approximately 20% of the world’s new-borns who have never seen the health service. Some will be located in remote areas that suffer from lack of infrastructure, hostile topography and extreme temperatures. Reachi...
Dear Supply Chain Managers and Friends,
A few days ago, I conducted a supervisory visit to a health post in Senegal to check the implementation of the "Informed Push Model" project (IPM), which I have lead since last August, and which has been distributing family planning products (9 to 11 products...
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Govt of India declared 2012-2013 as year of "Intensified Routine Immunization" and 200 districts who were below national coverage of 71% for DPT 3rd dose as per DLHS3 were selected. This gave us an opportunity to conduct this study. 4 Immunization Weeks (IWs), one week per month in 4...
The final report of the “Briefing on WHO Tools and Guidance on Immunization Data Quality and Vaccination Coverage Survey” that took place in Istanbul in December 2015 is now available.
The Executive summary is pasted below. Please feel free to share.
Executive Summary
From 1 to 4 December 2015, 6...
The function and importance of home-based records (HBRs) in immunization service delivery has been described and practical guidelines for HBR design released by the WHO (http://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/routine/homebasedrecords/en/). The annotated bibliography attached here at...
Nouveau Car battery operated cold boxes
In African countries during vaccination campaigns or outreach activities in distant places, traditional cold boxes used for vaccine transport may stay cold for a maximum of about four days (if not opened frequently) in ambient temperatures of around 30°C. Health workers some times need to carry froz...
Nouveau Outreach Operations
This is motivated by John Lloyd's recent post about a supply chain for outreach immunization, which I found very interesting. My question is somewhat peripherally related though. As some background, I am an academic who focuses on supply chain analysis, and in particular, I have worked a fair bit on...
Reposted from JSI's The Pump
Jeff Sanderson,Senior Technical Advisor
African immunization supply chains need to be transformed. Between 2010 and 2020, new vaccine introductions will quadruple the volume of vaccines per immunized child. The number of vaccine doses that health workers will adminis...
Immunization outreach services depend on a protective, affordable and efficient supply chain to benefit rather than obstruct outreach operations. Four potential cold-chain solutions are on offer but each has barriers to be negotiated or removed. The options are:
Frozen water packs BUT we should s...
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Hum Vaccin Immunother.2015 Aug 28:0. [Epub ahead of print]
Local infiltration of rabies immunoglobulins without systemic intramuscular administration: An alternative cost effective approach for passive immunization against rabies.
Bharti OK1,Madhusudana SN,G...
On receiving a few photos from the Canara Bank Manger, KVG Sullia branch this afternoon, I too got motivated to write a page and shared with local PHCs / Districts / State / centre / Development partners for further enhancement of 'civic'responsibility of civilians for better community participa...
UNICEF has launched an Innovation Fund (first-ever in the UN) to channel the energies of private sector, civil society and academia in support of strategic innovations for children.
The initiative will fund early-stage technical start-ups to support innovations in infrastructure (access to services...
Twenty-three speakers including 21 representatives from Member States (i.e. 15[2]), and two civil society organizations[4] and took note of the recommendations.
While Member States acknowledged successes in a few areas, most notably the absence of wild polio virus cases in the African region and mo...
Sustaining interest in a programme for several years is not an easy task. India conducted 44 rounds of Pulse Polio including the current round in Jan 2016. Many got retired but still proactively involve themselves in the pulse polio programme as national festival.
Little creative simplifying cha...
Abstract from an article written by our EPI Ghana team. Comments are welcome!
For the full article please go to: http://www.sciforschenonline.org/journals/vaccines/article-data/IJVI-1-104/IJVI-1-104.pdf
Background: WHO and UNICEF supported Ghana to conduct Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) assess...
We have shared the ‘Power of Peer Education’ to be followed by two write-ups on
1. 3 ‘D’s Affect: Duelist – the Determinant of Denominators and
2. Making of All Time Mission Mode [ATM(M)] outreach sessions.
Background: Following the first round of Intensification of Routine Immunization (IRI) i...
Dear TechNet Members,
First and foremost, let me wish you all a Happy New Year and extend my best wishes for a successful and productive 2016.
One of the TechNet achievements of 2015 was the organization of the 14th edition of the face to face conference of TechNet members and the wider community ...
Evolution, growth and development, extension-expansion, operational research are all natural processes.
Launch of a new programme with a properly fitting outfit, infuses rejuvenation, jubilance, reminds the commitment and sustains interest among the service providers in implementing the old program...
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