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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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Health Centers are provided with Ice Lined Refrigerators for keeping the vaccines of one mothh requirement. ILR has 3 baskets, one in the bottom 'A' zone with lower end temperature and 2 upper baskets in zone 'B' at higher end of critically set temperature of 2 to 8 degree centigrade. Since the heat...
GoI is planning to put in place open vial policy at the facility level. In that context I would like to get comments from the members on a draft opertional guideline. This has been prepared from WHO and other resources on open vial policy. We intend to draft a pictorial guidlines covering following ...
The impact of financial and organizational logistics actions on health programs remain a major challenge for managers of health. Indeed, the logistics as essential support to build and complete a program of health must be optimized in terms of cost and efficiency for implementation of quality health...
Many thanks to Diana Chang Blanc for sharing these documents with the forum!
According to the press release: "Donors committed US$ 4.3 billion at the first pledging conference held by the GAVI Alliance. This exceeds an initial target of $3.7 billion, enabling GAVI to reach more children fast...
Auto-combustion incinerators are preheated with biomass (wood, dung, other) for about 30mn, and then rely on the operator to keep temperatures in bounds (600-900 deg C) by knowing when to load what for 3 hrs, and then finish with a 30mn biomass burn-down period.
• Biomass is used to get the system...
Pentavalent stories: Lucknow deaths subjudice
http://hindu.com/2010/08/24/stories/2010082457281300.htm
Initially, it was said that three deaths had occurred due to the anti-measles vaccine and one death due to the BCG shot. Then it was said the children were given BCG vaccine instead of a...
Nouveau Erroneous vaccine reconstitution
The vaccine programme has become more complicated in the last few years, and more vaccines that have to be reconstituted have become commonplace in health facility fridges. At the same time, other programmes have increased the reach of their interventions to health facilities, and several therapeuti...
Friends - please see here the Call to Action recently approved by the GAVI Alliance Civil Society Constituency Steering Committee regarding the forthcoming Pledging Conference on June 13 in London. We invite your endorsement of the Call. If you/your organization wish to endorse the Call, please so...
For many years it has been the advice to national immunization programmes to have a "supermarket approach" to the delivey of vacines to health care clients. Basically, whenever a child showed up in a health facility, the vaccination would have to be provided, ie. if necessary a vial opened...
On 11 May the Safe Injection Global Network published its 598th (yes, 598th) electronic newsletter that reaches some 800 subsribers worldwide.
This week's email celebrates World Blood Donor Day but also has 24 other items about safe and appropriate use of injections throughout the world.
Examples ...
The national vaccine policy draft, submitted by the government in the Delhi High Court recently, strongly favours inclusion of new vaccines in the Universal Immunisation Programme of the country.
The court had sought the draft from the Centre last year in a petition against introduction of new va...
Hi all! Though I've looked around TechNet before and found some very insightful info, this is my first time to post!
I'm a student intern at an organization that seeks to better understand the problems of the cold chain and reasons for vaccine wastage. With immunization programs in developing c...
Dear Moderator, I am perturbed to know that people of Bangladesh have to pay Tk 40.25 to get obsolete Nerve Tissue Vaccine (NTV), recommended not to be used by WHO, but they are getting Pentavalent Free ! Banglaseh spends approximately Tk 1 crore ( 10 Million )every year on nerve tissue vaccine.
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I'm looking for any studies or documents comparing the implementation operational considerations for refrigerators by energy type. For example, we often hear that solar refrigerators are hard to maintain, petrol are difficult to keep a consistent temperature, etc. I'm looking for a documented source...
Nouveau CDC Flu App Challenge
A friend brought this to my attention and I wanted to share it the community in case there are developers out there with extra time and neat ideas, and in the event that winning applications might be beneficial in their approach to other immunization projects.
CDC Flu App Challenge: $35,000 in p...
Many thanks!
A dozen updates this week as the new vaccine pledging meeting approaches. Will the funds pledged next month cover the needs for introduction of rotavirus, pneumococcal and HPV vaccines? ‘The doubt is permitted,’ as they say in French.
Here are the titles of the new technical upda...
Are dairy chains and routine vaccine chains complementary? In Karnataka (South India) milk unions pick-up milk from even remote villages with amazing regularity/predictability (without special technology to speak of). Vehicles with "chillers" travel empty, and return with milk to the semi-urban proc...
by Simona Zipursky, PATH; Christoph Conrad, WHO/Quality, Safety & Standards; Tony Richardson, CDC/Vaccine Supply & Assurance Branch
They call it the Decade of Vaccines for a reason. More new vaccines will become available between 2010 and 2020 than all previous decades combined. Not onl...
by Steve McCarney, John Lloyd, and Joanie Robertson, PATH A group of public- and private-sector partners are collaborating with project Optimize to evaluate a range of innovative transportation and storage containers for heat-sensitive drugs and vaccines that operate in environments with or without...
Nouveau Solar is getting hotter
by Steve McCarney and Joanie Robertson, PATH
Many health facilities in remote areas operate without grid electricity, have unreliable electricity, or find that using electricity is too costly. In these settings, solar energy is a promising solution for powering the storage and transportation need...
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