[size=18] Preventing vaccine freezing during transportation in Immunization Programs throughout the world remains the challenging task. Will reinventing the icepack (wheel) make a difference? Modified frozen Icepacks compared with conventional (not modified) frozen ice...

VaxTrak in Vietnam VaxTrak helps health workers keep track of vaccine stock. In 2011, the Vietnamese National Expanded Programme on Immunization introduced VaxTrak in the provinces of Phu Tho, Quang Tri, and Ben Tre. This short video shows how VaxTrak works and examines the impact it has had. [you...

We would be interested in hearing the experience of national immunization programmes in countries that use the same vaccine but different presentations (eg. pentavalent 10 dose for fixed sites, pentavalent 1 dose for outreaches). - What issues and challenges have you had with such an arrangement...

This summary is being cross-posted from the IAPHL discussion forum with many thanks! The International Association of Public Health Logisticians has recently been engaged in an interesting discussion about demand forecasting. Here are a few highlights from the email exchange. This includes dema...

Après le succès de la première édition de la licence professionnelle en logistique de la santé, l’AMP, l’OMS et l’IRSP lancent la deuxième édition de la formation diplômante en logistique de santé, développée avec l’appui du projet LOGIVAC. D’une durée d’un an, cette formation est sanctionnée par...

The popular Temperature Stability of Vaccines slides that were originally produced by Dr. Julie Milstien for the TechNet21 2006 consultation have been further updated. The authors have made some graphic changes based on feedback received from field trainings. You can access the document here: Te...

The USAID | DELIVER PROJECT has just published Alternative Public Health Supply Chains: Reconsidering the Role of the Central Medical Store (report) and Getting Products to People Without a Traditional Central Medical Store (policy brief). This report and policy brief identify a set of approaches th...

Cross-posted from http://deliver.jsi.com/ with thanks! Risk management for public health supply chains focuses on how to organize the logistics activities of the supply chain in order to ensure that commodities needed for health programs are continuously available, without disruption. The USAID |...

Effective public health supply chains require motivated and skilled staff with competency in various essential logistics functions. In many countries, a lack of trained staff is a frequent cause of supply chain system breakdown and poor performance. In an effort to help public health supply chain ma...

Joanie Robertson Senior Manager, Vaccine Supply Chain, GAVI Alliance wants your views on vaccine investment strategies and the vaccine supply chain. The GAVI Alliance is currently developing two strategies, and your views are important for both. The Vaccine Investment Strategy and the Supply Chain...

GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children have launched a fund totalling $1,000,000 to reward organisations practicing innovative approaches for reducing under-5 child mortality. The organisation judged to combat child mortality in the most innovative and effective way will be eligible for an award of u...

Link to the questionnaire: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KbhmioGa_Nl7_2unTMtcHzZ1F82YtYIdxozFjXVt9ng/viewform The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) seeks to generate evidence useful to decision-makers and managers to focus resources on the most promising approaches to im...

This is a report based on a brief survey on the use of computerized LMIS in public health supply chains conducted on the International Association of Public Health Logisticians (IAPHL) forum. Dear Colleagues, I propose to your attention a brief survey report on the use of computerized LMIS in ...

Dear Friends, I must congratulate the GAVI board for taking a decision on introducing IPV. I hope the IPV would be introduced through cost effective intra-dermal method by enhancing its antigenic content and also through cost effective disposable syringe and needle method. Also the decision for inc...

Oxytocin is a lifesaving drug - it is one of the 13 commodities on the list of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children. - See more at: http://everywomaneverychild.org/component/content/article/1-about/409-un-commission-sets-out-plan-to-make-life-saving-health...

The data given for solar-powered refrigerators in the PQS sheets is not given consistently enough so that comparisons of various models can be made. The data needed for a fair comparison most often is energy consumption at 32 deg C without ice making, energy use with ice making and quantity of ic...

IPAC-2013Aprilreport-FINAL.pdf   This report covers the highlights of the meeting held in April 2013 in Geneva. The various sessions covered the following topics: Session I. Framework of the Unvaccinated The presentation covered the components of the Tools for Identifying Root Causes of C...

Records for Life Contest The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is launching an international contest to redesign the child health record. Winners of the contest - as determined by judges Melinda Gates, Anthony Lake, Walt Orenstein, Margaret Chan, and Robert Fabricant - will receive up to US $50,00...

Often we are not so familiar with the objects which we use very frequently. Knowing a little more helps in working with more confidence and perfection. Cleanliness is usually taken for granted. Revitted strap which keeps the lid entangled may be cumbersome to operate but it does an important functio...

While monitoring Routine Immunization sessions, finding fully melted relatively warm ice-packs but Vaccine Vial Monitor(VVM) in usable condition is common, but finding frozen ‘T’ series vaccines with unconditioned ice-packs in the field is also common. VVM being heat sensitive cannot measure freeze ...