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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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The “Autonomy Tool” is a method of sizing solar power systems. It was developed several years ago. I recently reread the instructions describing the application of this sizing technique. From my interpretation of the instructions the “Autonomy Tool” can be used to size battery powered systems or dir...
The two main challenges in implementing Routine Immunization are: 1) reaching all the beneficiaries, tracking and holding them to achieve full vaccination, and 2) immunizing the vaccinated, i.e., attaining seroconversion for specific protection against VPD. The latter requires high quality service ...
Cross-posted from the February 2012 Global Immunization News issue. Many thanks.
29/02/2012 from Jhilmil Bahl, WHO HQ
As the introductions of Pneumo and Rota vaccines in 2012 are fast approaching, training materials are being developed at WHO/HQ.
Rotarix materials will be available by mid-Ma...
Cross-posted from the February 2012 Global Immunization News issue. Many thanks.
29/02/2012 from Claudio Politi, Oumar Sagna and Daniela Urfer, WHO/HQ
New data on immunization financing are available based on the WHO/UNICEF Joint Report Form (JRF) reported by countries. Indicators on government...
The Journal of Infectious Diseases has a special issue (March 1, 2012: Suppl.1) devoted to the very important topic of integration of immunization with health services delivery. The wide-ranging articles cover experiences, integration framework, integration in outreach services, improving coverage ...
Cross-posted from the WHO website. Many thanks to Hayatee Hasan
Every immunization programme in the world has a national vaccination schedule that specifies the age at which antigens are to be given. But as we well know, in real life things rarely go according to plan!
Inevitably, children and...
India has been taken off the polio endemic list. This short film, uploaded by the Gates Foundation, acknowledges the people in the field who made it possible.
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In a related article, T Jacob ...
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that the HPV vaccine be administered at 11 to 12 years of age in both boys and girls.I do not know the studies that show cost-benefit analysis of the vaccine in females, especially in a scenario when many countries are against this vaccine.
The ...
Cross-posted from the January 2012 [i]Global Immunization News issue. Many thanks. [/i]
31/01/2012 from UNICEF Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEECIS)
The suggestion that I post this news came from Mojtaba Haghgou--the VSSM expert.
Following the decision...
I agree with Mansoor, on many occasions vaccination alone cannot protect children well. Using India's experiences, improving water sanitation and its key messages in polio eradication, we all should use the opportunity of new vaccine introduction to communicate with the community about all preventiv...
Cross-posted from the January 2012 issue of GIN with thanks. 31/01/2012 from Madhav Balakrishnan, WHO HQ The Global Network for Post-marketing Surveillance (PMS) of Vaccines was established by WHO in early 2008 with a primary objective to monitor the safety of WHO prequalified vaccines supplied thr...
Cross-posted from the January 2012 GIN issue with thanks.
31/01/2012 from Philipp Lambach, WHO HQ
An important part of post-licensure vaccine safety surveillance is to collect and analyse reports of Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI). Analysing multiple AEFI reports helps determine if ...
Cross-posted from the January 2012 Global Immunization News issue. Many thanks.
31/01/2012 from Osman Mansoor, UNICEF
Pneumonia and diarrhoea remain the top two causes of child deaths. The availability of new vaccines against
the top causes of pneumonia (Hib, PCV) and diarrhoea (RV) in children...
Cross posted from http://www.childsurvival.net with many thanks to Robert Davis
NOTE FROM ROBERT DAVIS INVITING CONTRIBUTIONS
The Expanded Programme on Immunization, now the world's largest public health programme, is approaching its fortieth birthday. It got started in a small suite of offi...
Here is a summary of interventions made by country delegations during the GVAP discussion at the WHO Executive Board on 21 January.
- A number of delegations mentioned the importance of including measles elimination as part of the GVAP (there was some discussion as to whether it should be eradi...
Nouveau Energy-Free, Cheap Refrigeration
Courtesy: Carin Hall (http://www.energydigital.com)
Inspired by the global need for the storage of vaccines, Adam Grosser describes a project in progress to supply inexpensive refrigeration that doesn't require electricity, propane, gas, kerosene or consumables. Using an historical concept of int...
Nouveau Issues not yet addressed …..
While immunization partners involved in supporting vaccine supply chain (WHO, UNICEF’s CCL and Project Optimize ...) are collaborating and building on each others’ experiences, there are several pertinent questions to the field yet to be addressed:
1. Questions related to standby generators:
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In North Africa, temperatures can range from 43 deg C in summer to near freezing during the winter. Is this a hot, temperate or moderate zone? Perhaps it would be most beneficial for the purchaser to know at what temperature range the refrigerators will provide proper storage conditions. For example...
by Patrick Lydon, World Health Organization; Chutima Suraratdecha, PATH; Michelle Arnot, Western Cape Department of Health; Ticky Raubenheimer, Collaborative Centre for Cold Chain Management; Arthorn Riewpaiboon, Mahidol University; and Cha-oncin Sooksriwong, Mahidol University
In recent years, ...
by Juanita Folmsbee, SCMS and Hai Le, PATH
While project Optimize seeks innovative supply chain solutions for vaccines, it often finds those solutions already being implemented in other supply chain systems. In this article, we explore a success story from the Supply Chain Management System (SCM...
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