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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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Immunogram (IgM) 2+ is completing one year from Xmas 2012 to Xmas 2013. The following is a brief write-up.
On Christmas Eve of 2012, Immunogram, IgM++ was posted as a ‘gift’ to the viewers of Technet. It is completing one year by this Christmas 2013. It started with 2 session sites of one sub-cen...
This one has been cross-posted from the IAPHL forum with many thanks!
We are excited to offer you a new quiz from PHiL and a module developed by DELIVER - both on Performance Based Incentives (PBI). Consider it a year end gift to you all.
As you may know there has been tremendous growth in the...
Nouveau Polio a threat
Wild Polio virus type 1 (WPV1) stills exists in Quetta as samples collected from the city's sewage system suggested persistence of the virus in the environment.
The detection of polio virus has rung alarming bells with potential threat for millions of children of below the age of five in the cit...
Nouveau ICT Toolkit goes online
An online version of the ICT Toolkit developed by project Optimize has been published on the TechNet-21.org website. http://ict.technet-21.org The original document, entitled Planning an information systems project: A toolkit for public health managers, is available as a PDF on the PATH and WHO we...
Cross-posted from the IAPHL forum with thanks!
The post summarizes the discussion over three weeks.
Week 1: Introduction to Supply Chain Design
? Supply Chain Design is about achieving objectives (Reliability, Responsiveness, Agility, Cost, Assets) by configuring infrastructure and process...
Dimagi is pleased to announce that it will support five organizations from various sectors in India and Nepal to explore the use of mobile technology for logistics and supply chain management in low-resource settings. Each organization will be supported to launch a proof of concept of CommTrack, an ...
The new WHO EVM Assessment Tool (version 1.0.9) is available for download from the EVM restricted access website: https://extranet.who.int/evm .
To install the tool:
• Login to the restricted access website
• Click Get EVM Tools
• Download the Assessment Tool Installer (version 1.0.9)
• Unzi...
Nouveau A call for help, please
Immunization supply chains are regularly reviewed and plans made to improve them. All of the GAVI eligible countries carry our regular and comprehensive EVM reviews which help ministries focus their attention on the parts that most need help.
Supply chains for drugs are not so fortunate; assessm...
I guess some of you would have followed recent developments around wild polio virus circulation in Syria where they are now clinical cases being reported. see http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_10_29/en/index.html
I am trying to gather guidances, publications, reports of polio intervention among re...
The GAVI Alliance is currently developing its strategy for the period 2016-2020, which will be presented to the GAVI Board for adoption in June 2014. The approach to develop the new strategy is highly inclusive and builds on the input of all partners and stakeholders in the Alliance. Based on consul...
To strengthen public health supply chains, policymakers, supply chain managers, and development partners need to know the real costs of delivering commodities. Identifying these costs and the sections of the supply chain that are driving costs can give decisionmakers the data they need to ensure ade...
Dear all,
I hope this is a place where I can ask a question in the forum.
WHO PQS-qualified refrigerators used frequently at the health facility level (E003) have a holding capacity measured by a particular WHO testing process. However, most fridges also have certain limitations on that holdi...
We think of fridge holdover time (autonomy) in the context of power shortage, whether cloudy weather in the case of solar, or power cuts for A/C systems. While this will see functioning equipment through power shortages and keep vaccine 'safe' for a given duration (a parameter which varies immensel...
Many thanks to Robert Steinglass for sharing this information with TechNet-21.
As diseases emerge and infections re-emerge, new and improved vaccines are needed. The decisions about which vaccines should be developed first can affect millions of people's health, quality of life, and economic prog...
by Tina Lorenson, PATH, and Joanie Robertson, GAVI Alliance
Newer vaccines often require more cold chain space and more reliable cooling equipment than traditional ones. For many national immunization programs, these requirements present a serious challenge. Aware of the problem, for the last fiv...
Nouveau Why integrate supply chains?
by Patrick Lydon, WHO, and Prashant Yadav, University of Michigan
Project Optimize has recently published a document that examines the benefits, challenges, and rationale for integrating vaccine supply chains with the supply chains of other health commodities. It provides agencies, donors, decisi...
by Jan Grevendonk, WHO Project Optimize has worked closely with national immunization programs throughout the world to demonstrate innovative solutions to supply chain challenges. Many of these demonstration projects have involved the use of information systems to help improve the performance of im...
by Sean Blaschke and Lilian Nabunnya, UNICEF
On April 26, 2013, health workers at 3,240 health facilities in Uganda were sent the following short-message service (SMS) text message:
Does your Health Unit have a cold chain fridge for vaccines? Please answer YES / NO. If you have a fridge but it is ...
by Sy Gebrekidan (Merck), Debra Kristensen (PATH), Osman Mansoor (UNICEF), Gisele Corrêa Miranda (Fiocruz), Robert Steinglass (JSI), and Simona Zipursky (WHO)
In 2009, the Vaccine Presentation and Packaging Advisory Group (VPPAG) published its first generic preferred product profile (gPPP) for ...
by Michel Zaffran, WHO
In December 2007, a team of talented individuals from PATH and the World Health Organization (WHO) came together to form project Optimize, a five-year collaboration to identify ways in which supply chains can be optimized to meet the demands of an increasingly large and cos...
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