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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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Dear experts, I have two questions for you.
1/ On most of blistered and non blistered medicine monograph, there is written that medicines should be kept in a cool and dry place.
WHO guidance on temperature is well explained. Fine.
It is very hard to find anything around humidity. Except that ...
Tool vs. approach:
ANMs receive multiple forms/formats/records/registers. Often they have to enter same data multiple times increasing their fatigue and compromising the quality of data and service. Time and again Govt had requested the consultants and development partners to simplify recording and...
PATH is conducting this survey to learn how vaccine carriers are currently used in the vaccine supply chain and whether they are meeting the needs of the health system. We are interested in global trends as well as examples from individual countries. We welcome any comments or feedback. The survey w...
WHO and UNICEF have jointly prepared an information bulletin which addresses varied implications of different types of vaccine vial monitors (VVMs), notably VVM category type 7 (VVM7) and VVM category type 14 (VVM14), on vaccines such as the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) and the fully-liquid Dipht...
We are pleased to inform you that the latest IPAC Meeting Report is now available online through the following link:
http://www.who.int/immunization/programmes_systems/policies_strategies/ipac/en/
The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC) has been supporting and advising the Di...
Dear Colleagues,
The new People that Deliver Newsflash No.12 is now available!
In this issue:
- Update on the 2nd PtD Global Conference
- Public Health Supply Chain Competency Mapping in Namibia
- The 7 habits of effective supply chain professionals
- Results of the PtD Board elect...
As many of you know, the supply chain strategy developed by WHO, UNICEF, Gates Foundation and GAVI was approved by the GAVI Board in June of this year, and we are beginning to work on implementation planning and communication. At this point, I know the community has more questions than we yet have a...
MCHIP is USAID's flagship program accelerating progress towards achieving MDGs 4 & 5. Since 2008, MCHIP has worked in more than 50 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to improve the health of women and their families. MCHIP has supported programming across the spect...
Nouveau System design: Repair or Replace
A new policy paper on the vaccine supply chain, "System Design: Repair or Replace," has recently been released. It's attached and can also be found here: http://villagereach.org/vrsite/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/villagereach-system-design_repair-or-replace.pdf. This paper considers the broader conce...
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Global vaccine supply. The increasing role of manufacturers from middle income countries
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A design methodology for the economic design of vaccine warehouses in the developing worl...
Dear TechNet Community
Since the endorsement of the decade-long Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) by the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2012, the WHO Secretariat is mandated to produce and disseminate each year an annual report that analyses progress towards achieving the various GVAP goals and ...
Nouveau IAPHL E-Mentoring Program
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
The goal of the IAPHL e-mentoring program is to provide its members with opportunities to develop a partnership through which the mentor shares knowledge, skills, information and perspective to nurture ...
"Cleanliness is godliness". In implementing routine immunization programme, achieving timeliness/timely completeness is Godliness. By vaccinating close to the schedule through regular outreach sessions at monthly intervals, tracking vaccination status through simple paper documentation ce...
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to update you on the details regarding the 2nd People that Deliver Global Conference on “Human Resources in Supply Chain Management” to be held at UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark on 27-30 October 2014.
Under the theme of 'People Must Deliver: Workforce excellenc...
The Measles & Rubella Initiative is a global partnership committed to ensuring no child dies from measles or is born with congenital rubella syndrome. This updated fact sheet provides at a glance information about the importance of eliminating measles and rubella globally. The illustrations by artis...
Cross-posted from the global.knowledge-gateway.org with thanks!
Dear Friends,
Could you please share this easy-to-digest message out to the West African public through your various means? It is very well done and provides people with the information they require to stop the spread of Ebola. An...
Nouveau Cold and freezer rooms
Time to rethink cold rooms.
Inspired by johns rethinking.
A lot has happened since the first vaccine cold rooms were installed.
There is much better access to refrigeration technicians. Butchers and many others are using cold rooms, if something goes wrong it is being repaired.
There is some kin...
I'm a student with the University of Washington. We are trying to develop and improve upon cost models for the cold chain. We know that for grid electricity, kerosene and gas we can multiply country energy prices by consumption. Has anyone attempted to model what the cost would be if the refrigerato...
A couple of months ago, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) produced a package of materials in support of their call for wider use of existing vaccines in the “controlled temperature chain” or CTC.
An issue brief, Vaccinating Children Beyond the Cold Chain, is available in English and French. It is a...
I want to bring your attention to a new supply chain management resource: the Promising Practices in Supply Chain Management series. The series was commissioned by the Supply and Awareness Technical Reference Team (TRT) of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women’s and Chil...
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