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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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by Alan Hinman, Task Force for Global Health; Majeed Siddiqi, HealthNet TPO Afghanistan; and Amy Dietterich, IFRC
While Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have long played critical roles in supporting immunization services at national and global levels, their role in the GAVI Alliance expanded j...
by Ruth Simmons, ExpandNet Secretariat; Peter Fajans, RHR/WHO and ExpandNet Secretariat; and Suzanne Reier RHR/WHO and ExpandNet
Over the next 12 months, project Optimize will be collecting final data from its demonstration projects and transitioning management of these projects to government pa...
by Osman Mansoor and Kate Bai, UNICEF; Andrew Garnett, Consultant; and Solo Kone, WHO In December 2011, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosted a workshop in New York for the Cold Chain and Logistics (CCL) Taskforce. The main focus of the workshop was to review the Effective Vaccine Man...
MCHIP is USAID funded project working on immunization, Family planning and new born care in India. One of the activities of MCHIP is to work with the district authorities to improve immunization program management. In this context, MCHIP has developed a demo site in health facilities in Districts of...
Nouveau "Facing Meningitis"
This educational and compelling video conveys the importance of young people receiving the meningococcal meningitis vaccine before going to college. Since adolescents ages 16 to 21 have the highest rates of meningococcal meningitis, the video tells the story of two college students: Jamie Schanbaum,...
Nouveau Vaccine Wastage
Till now, many countries were using relatively cheap vaccines for their EPI program and therefore the issue of vaccine wastage was not given much importance as the focus was on reaching maximum number of beneficiaries. But now given the fact that many countries have now introduced or are in the proc...
Nouveau Addressing vaccine hesitancy
We have a very interesting post from Robert Steinglass from JSI on a subject rarely discussed on the forum. Thank you!
To address vaccine “hesitancy,” frame the question broadly says Robert Steinglass
There has been much legitimate discussion in the past 6 months about a growing problem of v...
With many thanks to John Lloyd for this post.
Countries that currently use absorption refrigeration (gas, electric or kerosene-powered) are facing increasing pressure to switch to solar photovoltaic-powered refrigeration for vaccine as manufacture of absorption equipment shrinks. We have a substa...
Tanzania is among the 11 Sub-Saharan (SSA) countries that have recorded significant progress in reducing child mortality through several interventions including immunization services. Sustaining this immunization gains (and the overall reduction of infant mortality) is a major challenge. A critical ...
Nouveau Malaria Vaccine developments
Vac-4-All and MRTC
Launch multi-centre Malaria Vaccine Efficacy Trial in Mali
Vac-4-All, a new vaccine development initiative, and the Malaria Research and Training Centre (MRTC), a public research and training facility of the University of Bamako in the Republic of Mali, have completed ...
Nouveau Vaccine Carrier "Wish List"
Hi all!
I'm looking into what health workers/users and health programs like to see in a vaccine carrier and/or what specifications they wish vaccine carriers had. In particular, what are you looking for in a vaccine carrier that is used for outreach activities to remote or hard-to-reach areas f...
Cool Containers, a new company based in Marietta, OH has developed an innovative, active shipping container called the PharmaPort 360. This first product has been designed for pallet-sized shipments of vaccines and other temperature sensitive products by ground and is FAA approved for air transport...
Dear Friends,
Sharing with you the PPT by Katie Hampson for comments, that was telecasted world over in a webinar by World Rabies Day....
The topic relates to Advance Market Commitments for whose benefit, the Pharma or the beneficiaries? The issue of Advance Market Commitments need urgent attention as this hs aquired a dangerous trend in industry. Advance Market Commitments is only benefitting pharma companies as there is only all ben...
PATH is investigating the potential of low-cost, post-market modifications to improve the performance of domestic refrigerators for vaccine storage, as an intermediate step to procurement of a WHO PQS pre-qualified vaccine refrigerator.
We would like to learn more about the use of domestic vacci...
PQS Data
I was recently trying to compare PQS data for direct drive refrigerators. Data for two parameters of prime importance are not always given:
- Solar radiation reference period
- Power consumption: Stable Running
Data is also usually given for 43 deg C and sometimes for 32 deg C. D...
Questionnaire Regarding Measles Vaccine Vial Presentation
Would a 5-dose vial of measles vaccine for routine immunization programs improve programme performance?
We have received some reports that not all vaccination sessions include measles vaccination. Because the health workers are reluctan...
Cross posted from the 'http://www.who.int/immunization/gin/en/" target="_blank">Global Immunization News' with thanks. Claudio Politi and Daniela Urfer, WHO/HQ The Immunization Financing Database has been updated with cMYPs recently developed by countries and submitted to GAVI in June 2011 for f...
This has been cross-posted from the SABIN website with thanks.
Since late 2008, the Sustainable Immunization Financing (SIF) Program has been operating in twelve African, and three Asian pilot countries.
Using a collective action approach, SIF invites key stakeholders - especially parliamentar...
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