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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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cStock is a simple mHealth system that helps to ensure community health workers in Malawi have lifesaving products to treat children under five. cStock was originally piloted in 6 districts and 3 of these districts also implemented supporting teams. The greatest benefits were shown in districts wit...
2013 saw the emerging of the People that Deliver(PtD) Initiative, with funding for a modest secretariat, housed at the UNICEF Supply Division, secured through UNFPA, UNICEF SD and USAID on the 31st December 2014. An Executive Manager began in Jun 2013, a strategic plan was finalised, an aspirational...
This note has been cross-posted from the GAVI CSO forum with many thanks!
Dear colleagues,
This week on occasion of the World Immunization Week, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has released a call for greater attention to the need for heat-stable vaccines to facilitate acc...
A recently concluded two-week discussion on the IAPHL Forum addressed the challenges or solutions for managing vehicles for distribution of health commodities in rural areas.
In week one, moderator Matthew Hann from Riders for Health summarized the discussion: "almost everyone mentioned that...
The study area is a Health Sub-Centre in a Primary Health Centre of a coastal district of Karnataka state. This district has already achieved the Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5 of 2015 and the targets set for 2017 under RMNCH+A. But it is lagging behind in HepB birth dose. In this district, >65%...
The Immunization Summary is an app for visualizing data (tables, graphs, maps) on policies, activities and impact of national immunization systems. These data are reported by WHO & UNICEF Member States annually for incidence, coverage, immunization system indicators and vaccination schedules.
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Cross-posted from: http://www.vaccinestoday.eu/vaccines/video-competition-for-students/
Drumroll please! Vaccines Today is pleased to launch the 3rd edition of our Communication Challenge.
This video competition offers students in Europe to win €1,000 and a trip to Brussels. Runners up prizes ...
Nouveau Home-based vaccination records
Posted by: David Brown UNICEF / Marta Gacic Dobo WHO All too often overlooked, the home-based vaccination record maintains a central role in documenting immunization services received across the lifespan. WHO and UNICEF are working to heighten awareness of the importance of the home-based vaccinati...
In response to H1N1 pandemicity in 2009-10, Karnataka received Panenza vaccine in the mid March 2010 from GoI for vaccinating various categories of Health Care providers in ‘Pulse’ mode. On confirming from the Focal person at the National level and from the SEARO through the Regional Team Leader abo...
This is the third post on data for management (D4M) in the context of the GAVI Alliance 2020 supply chain strategy. D4M refers to the collection, analysis and use of data to measure and improve immunization (supply chain) performance. At this point, we would like to request your help and collaborat...
Last week the TechNet moderator introduced a new moderated discussion on GAVI’s immunization supply chain strategy Data for management. This week we continue the discussion. As GAVI partners continue to develop a strategy for strengthening immunization supply chains, one of the areas we are thinkin...
Sustainably Graduating, so they don’t come home to live with us
Robert Steinglass,
Immunization Team Leader, MCHIP
Immunization Senior Advisor, JSI
18 February 2014
(appeared as a blog with live links on Health Planning and Policy Debated, 18 February 2014 and accessible at:
http://blogs.ls...
Dear TechNet members,
This week, TechNet launches its first moderated discussion. The topic for debate over the following month is the ‘Data for Management’ priority working group of GAVI’s immunization supply chain strategy. Please do share your valuable thoughts and experiences with us on this ...
Nouveau Supportive Supervision
High risk vaccination practices: Supportive Supervision for immunizing the vaccinated.
Medical Colleges can play a pivotal role in the capacity building of service providers through healthy and effective Partnership. Quantity and the ‘Quality of the quantity’ are the need of the hr/day/week/ month...
In December 2012, the GAVI Board recognized the need for the Alliance to strengthen its coordination and support for immunization supply chain performance at global and country levels. To this end, the Alliance assembled a task force to develop an immunization supply chain strategy. After investiga...
This IVB document is now online at WHOLIS
WHO-UNICEF guidelines for developing a comprehensive multi-year plan (cMYP)(WHO/IVB/14.01)
This updated document provides guidance to countries to make national comprehensive multi-year strategic plans (cMYP) for immunization, using the Global Va...
Nouveau About thermal assault
Today in the PG Activity, PGs questioned me about 'Thermal assault' for which I could not get adequate references. As of now we need to keep the reconstituting diluent in the cold chain at least a day earlier to vaccination day so that it will not give a thermal assault to the lyophilized vaccine a...
Many thanks to Umit Kartoglu for sharing these videos with the TechNet-21 forum!
WHO/EPELA releases the most recently produced expert videos on VVM-based vaccine management. These videos are specifically produced for the new EPELA authentic e-learning course on vaccine vial monitor-based vaccine ...
With the WHO declaration of ‘polio eradication – a public health emergency – and measles elimination by 2020’, routine immunization is gaining more importance. There is an urgency of closing the population immunity gap (lesson learnt from Syria and other countries).
Primary Health Cen...
Nouveau Polio teams attacked
Unknown gunmen on Saturday the 28th of December 2013 opened indiscriminate fire on entering a hospital and fled from the scene. Subsequently, one polio worker, Zahid Gul, was killed on the spot whereas ward orderly Niqab Khan and a woman sustained severe injuries.
Meanwhile, policemen reached the...
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