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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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In a new article on the RBFHealth blog, Brian Serumaga, supply chain technical advisor with the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, discusses the role of the central medical store in strengthening the performance of health supply chains and the findings of a recent results-based financing pilot in Mozambique. ...
These are the conclusions from the recent study in 4 Gavi countries (attached). Are you convinced by these findings?...
Nouveau VVM’s and MKT Thermometers
Below are some examples of how an MKT thermometer could be used to to simpllfy temperature data analysis for the cold chain.
If the temperature in a refrigerator is 4 deg C for 20 hours then increases to 15 deg C for 4 hours, how will the vaccine life be affected?
- If this is a one day occurrence...
Announcing two new publications, part of the Vaccine Management Handbook series:
How to monitor temperatures in the vaccine supply chain (WHO/IVB/15.04)
http://www.who.int/immunization/documents/financing/who_ivb_15.04
How to use passive containers and coolant-packs for vaccine transport and o...
Nouveau Temperature Display
Dear Colleagues,
Many of the prequalified refrigerators have integrated digital thermometers with digital display outside showing instantaneous temperature readings.
During the field visits, I have started to notice considerable number of refrigerators with non-functioning digital display. I am ...
Nouveau NEW IPV ADVOCACY TOOLS!
Thirty countries have now introduced IPV vaccine as part of objective 2 of the Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan. In August, the second of the polio endemic countries, Pakistan, introduced IPV nationally. There are now 30 countries that have introduced the vaccine. Nigeria, the other ende...
Dear viewers
We wish to share the PPT on “COMBOCARD” – an outcome of interaction with many RI players; presented in the regular monthly Academic Clinical Society Meeting held on 26th Aug 2015 in KVG Medical College Hospital for further inputs and dissemination please.
For achieving the object...
Background: Rabies is a dreaded disease and an estimated 55,000 people die of rabies every year. Himachal Pradesh is in the North bordering China and is predominantly rural and hilly. Villages are near forests, where wild reservoirs of rabies exist. Since health facilities are not accessible easily,...
Dear Technet21 Members,
I would like to take the opportunity to introduce a new course to you. ‘Managing Human Resources in Health and Humanitarian Supply Chains: Strategies, Tools and Techniques’. This course will be offered by Pamela Steele Associates (PSA) in Oxford, 30th November and 4th Dec...
While stethoscope, knee-hammer, tuning fork and the like help in making bedside diagnosis in clinical medicine; Public health uses well designed, field tested forms / formats and tools for:
1) Collecting adequate data for obtaining meaningful “information”
2) Obtaining required indicators for pe...
Choices, choices, choices – they are both the bane and blessing of our times. As immunization managers, we now have a wide array of PQS-prequalified cold chain equipment to choose from, but how do we make the right choices and get the best value for our bucks? The TechNet Product Reviews area helps ...
People who delay or refuse vaccines for themselves or their children are presenting a growing challenge for countries seeking to close the immunization gap. Globally, 1 in 5 children still do not receive routine life-saving immunizations, and an estimated 1.5 million children still die each year of ...
Please find the attached summary of "MISSION INDRADHANUSH SIMULATION STUDY" conducted in the Primary Health Centre Samapje which is the Rural Health Training Centre for field practice of KVG Medical College. The baseline coverage >2 years itself is >95% since 2013 and hence we raised...
Sampaje team completed mission indradhanush simulation study(MISS). Lessons learnt with study observations is attached for the technet community for viewing/reviewing. Hoping for CSF (comments / suggestions / feedback) from the viewers....
In the last decade, vaccine information management has slowly evolved from paper at every level in the health system, to Excel-based reports at higher levels (districts or above) that are emailed, to simple stand-alone databases with exported PDF reports, and most recently web forms that capture dat...
Nouveau A "COMMON COLD" DILEMMA
Potency of vaccine at the time of administration to the beneficiaries is of utmost importance in preventing morbidity and mortality due to vaccine preventable diseases. Evolution of more and more vaccines against crippling and lethal diseases has made vaccination the most cost-effective and importan...
We are pleased to share the new PtD Newsflash no. 16 with our colleagues.
In this issue of the PtD Newsflash, read more about the:
Webinar for the LAC region on systematic approaches to increasing professionalism in health SCM
Newgraduates from the Pharmacy Assistant Training...
Nouveau ALLOWABLE ALLOWANCE
I was thinking of writing on “ALLOWABLE ALLOWANCE” with regard to the quality of vaccination in terms of timeliness of various antigens and interval between subsequent doses. Meanwhile I had a brain storming session with a SMO from WHO country office on Thursday evening: 09-07-2015 and sharing the s...
“Apps” (computer software applications) are being developed and used as tools to help manage the vaccines and medicines supply chain more and more. But are they directed at challenges that have persisted the longest and would have the greatest impact if resolved? Take, for example, the following two...
Nouveau ECTC, CTC & VVM
Hi all,
I am quite new to the CTC adventure.
After reading the second draft of the WHO CTC guideline, now ECTC (I also wen through the first version and the discussion in Langen and Ottawa), several questions came to my mind, and I would be extremely grateful if some of the forum members can help ...
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