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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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Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) with mobile technology is in practice in Kodagu District of Karnataka. However on scanning the data with immunogram lapses in the programme were detected in December 2012. Present template developed by providing technical assistance, advocacy, staff meeting, j...
by Simona Zipursky, PATH; Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey, WHO/AFRO; Olivier Ronveaux, WHO/AFRO; Sylvestre Tiendrebeogo, Consultant
In November 2012, the first immunization campaign to use a controlled temperature chain (CTC) took
place in Banikoara in northern Benin. MenAfriVac is a meningitis A vac...
Four new technical briefs from the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT offer guidance on important ways to strengthen malaria supply chains in developing countries. From techniques for stakeholder collaboration to identifying potential causes of commodity leakage, these publications address critical aspects of ...
The usefulness of 'immunogram and its IgM++ Application in 2 session sites in 2 AWCs of Health Sub centers Peraje of Planning unit PHC Sampaje attached to KVG Medical college with one month intervention is attached with an anticipation of scaling up to other subcenters of the same PHC, later other P...
This blog by Judith Kaufmann has been cross-posted from the Health Affairs blog. Many thanks.
The week of December 17 was a grim one for the polio eradication effort in Pakistan. Seven Pakistani women health workers and two Pakistani men, all working to ensure the success of the polio campaign, ...
Cross-posted from the GAVI Alliance website with thanks!
Professor Hans Rosling is a doctor and a professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. At the GAVI Partners' Forum, he showed how GAVI’s mission to increase access to immunisation fits into a new way of looking at...
Nouveau Measles updates
Many thanks to Robert Davis for this lead!
Recent Technical Updates
POSSIBLE INTERRUPTION OF MEASLES VIRUS TRANSMISSION, UGANDA 2006-2009
Full text, with tables and figures, is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204633/pdf/10-0753_finalD.pdf
SINGLE ENDEMIC GENOTYPE OF MEAS...
Hi,
I would greatly appreciate your expert opinion on a technical question regarding extensive field monitoring of solar generator. The objective is to carry out a long-term, rather in-depth field monitoring of solar (DD) fridge installations for their long-term performance evaluation and programma...
I have never seen any document suggesting that low birth weight is a contraindication for new-born vaccination for institutional deliveries, although I have seen few paediatricians suggesting that, in case of low birth weight, vaccination of the new-born should be avoided.
Please let me know yo...
Nouveau IgM ++ Application
Data from two session sites were scanned through the 'IMMUNOGRAM' tool for enumerating the vaccination status to obtain multi indicators. It was observed that both the areas achieved high vaccination coverage except for the measles second dose: 8% in one area and 0% in the other. On the coming regu...
Cross-posted from the GAVI CSO forum with many thanks.
As you may know, a United Nations Environment Programme treaty is currently being negotiated on mercury. A number of organizations have been working to ensure that the instrument does not restrict access to the vaccine preservative, thiomersa...
For achieving >90% coverage in the shortest period at the session site level, a one-pager offline tool, which I wish to name as 'IMMUNOGRAM', is adequate. This tool incorporates the basic principle of 'My Village My Home', suitably expanded for IWs (Immunization Weeks) of IRI (Intensification of...
The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC), established in 2010, supports and advises the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB), with the review and/or formulation of immunization practices, operational standards, tools and technologies to strengthen an...
Dear colleagues,
With the GAVI Partners' Forum and Africa Regional Conference on Immunization taking place in Dar Es Salaam in the coming two weeks, and with the recent endorsement of the Global Vaccine Action Plan, immunization is receiving a great deal of attention. Over the past three years, t...
Cold chain handlers, medical officers and district immunization officers often face problems in calculating the cold space required for storing vaccines at the planning unit level. Hence, the volume of each carton is measured and arranged as per the existing guidelines to simplify the theoretical pr...
Diarrheal disease is among the five leading causes of morbidity and mortality among under-five children in Malawi. In the multiple indicator survey conducted in 2006, nearly a quarter (23.3%) of under-five children reported having a diarrhea episode in the previous two weeks. Rotavirus infection con...
India, with 61% fully immunized...
Nouveau 2D Vaccine Barcode Pilot (CDC)
Cross-posted from the CDC website with thanks.
In September 2011, CDC initiated a pilot project to test the implementation, using industry barcoding standards, of 2D barcodes on vaccine products.
A 2D vaccine barcoding manufacturer's forum was conducted in January 2012 to inform manufacturers an...
Many thanks to Tasnim Partapuri for directing our attention here!
UNICEF developed the Meena Communication Initiative (MCI) as a mass communication project aimed at changing perceptions and behaviour that hamper the survival, protection and development of girls in South Asia.
Following eight y...
by Ryan McWhorter, Logistimo, and Dan Brigden, PATH To accompany the article “South Sudan deploys new mobile phone-based stock management tool” in this month’s newsletter, project Optimize has published http://www.flickr.com/photos/projectoptimize/sets/72157631611716301/with/8026383968/" target="_b...
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