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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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Please note that we have today posted on the WHO web site an information sheet and questions and answers on thiomersal.
- Information sheet - http://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/thiomersal_information_sheet/en/index.html
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Recently, I have seen a number of relatively large RFQ’s for direct drive refrigerators. These refrigerators do not have an ice pack freezer. From past feed back from our customers and WHO we have heard that ice packs are necessary to distribute vaccines to more remote areas. We are concerned that t...
This is not a new thing. After delivery requesting for an early discharge is a common high risk practice. There is a rising awareness among the community, thanks to social mobilization by the ASHA and the Govt for introducing "ASHA" who accompanies the precious pregnant women who deliver the future ...
by Sophie Newland, PATH and Gisele Corrêa Miranda, Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz
The environmental, social, and economic impact of packaging materials is a growing interest and concern among governments, industry, universities, and regulatory bodies around the world. Innovations in design and material d...
by Darin Zehrung, Jean-Marie Préaud, and Emily Griswold, PATH
In an effort to advance the development of promising new rotavirus vaccine candidates, PATH is assisting manufacturers in Brazil, China, and India in the formulation, manufacturing, and clinical development of the vaccine candidates. T...
by Kien Vu and Hai Le, PATH
In many developing countries, vaccine storage in refrigerators is very costly for immunization programs. For years, solar refrigeration has helped those countries increase cold chain capacity and decrease energy costs and consumption. However, problems with battery mai...
by Kamel Senouci, AMP and Liliana Chocarro, Consultant
As a wider array of vaccines become available in developing countries, many national immunization programs are starting to rely on the professional advice of National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) to help them make critical ...
by Miloud Kaddar, WHO/IVB and Sarah Schmitt, Consultant The World Health Organization (WHO) recently launched a new project to address the need for reliable, accurate, and neutral vaccine product, price, and procurement information among countries newly graduating from GAVI Alliance (GAVI) support...
Looking at the product sheets for carriers and cold boxes, I can see their vaccine storage capacity of 1 L, 2L, etc. But how does that translate into the number of vials that carriers and cold boxes typically hold?
Many thanks in advance to your feedback!...
Rationale for introducing 5-dose vials of measles vaccine for routine immunization programs.
Robert Steinglass of JSI/MCHIP challenges each of us to give our opinion on our preferences for measles vaccine vial size.
At the just-completed Measles Partnership Annual Meeting at the American Red C...
This could become a reality if anti-thiomersal activists are successful .
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is developing a treaty on the production, importation, and export of mercury-added products. Thiomersal (also known as thimerosal, mercurothiolate, and sodium 2-ethylmercurio...
Nouveau Solar Cold Chain Training
http://www.5min.com/Video/Solar-Panel-Fridges-for-Rural-Bangladesh-502319944...
Nouveau '0' OPV / '0' Dose (Zero dose)
In late 90's we are hearing about '0' OPV . To start with '0' meant one which is not entered in the immunization card. It can be administered on the day of birth ( 0 day) or within 2 weeks so that there will be a gap of 4 weeks between the 2 drops of potent OPV given in this period and the first dos...
At request of Government of India, MCHIP immunization team has prepared a ready reckoner for health workers, which captures key aspects of immunization that a peripheral health worker (ANM, LHV others) should know.
Comments welcome from Technet colleagues
Immunization-ready-reckoner-for-health-...
Nouveau Lives Saved Tool (LiST)
The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) has been developed to estimate the impact of health interventions and can consider multiple interventions simultaneously. This new computer-based tool allows users to set up and run multiple scenarios to look at the estimated impact of different intervention packages and ...
Nouveau Learning from the nature
In day today life we see so many things happening around us which we can capture and use 'philosophically' in our training programmes. On bringing the two gates closer but not touching each other within a minute the red ants 'constructed' a bridge across a gap of 8 to 10 ants length, a similar gap o...
Nouveau Improving UIP in India
Dear All,
I am attaching a document titled Improving UIP Coverage in India, a concept note. The note looks at the current UIP situation, constraints and suggests few solutions to improve UIP coverage and quality in India over medium to long term. I hope the forum members would like it and add resp...
Nouveau Who can Handle Adverse Reactions
It all started with this letter to an e-group:
Dear Friends,
The need for screening before vaccination and the presence of a doctor during the procedure, as stated by Dr T Jacob John, cannot be overemphasized. I am happy that this much sense is now seeping back into mainstream thinking. Now what...
To update the Multi-Dose Vial Policy, WHO and the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC) has been designing a "visual cue". This is a small logo that will be placed on vaccine vials to allow health workers to judge whether to discard the vial at the end of a session, or allow the...
This questionnaire comes from Andrew Garnett. Please do respond.
WHO and PATH are developing specifications for a new generation of large capacity cold boxes. We believe that these will improve the efficiency and security of vaccine deliveries at the national and provincial levels, helping countr...
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