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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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[justify]Emerald Group Publishing is delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new journal for 2011: Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management. [/justi...
AVI initiative confronts supply chain shortcomingsby Stefano Malvolti, PATH, and Souleymane Kone, WHO
The Accelerated Vaccine Introduction (AVI) initiative will see the first wave of pneumococcal vaccines entering up to 15 GAVI Alliance-approved countries in 2010. Another 11 countries are expected ...
New bivalent polio vaccine simplifies logistics in hard-to-reach areasby Ian Lewis, UNICEF Supply Division
Since 2005, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has increasingly used monovalent oral polio vaccines (OPVs) in the fight against the two wild poliovirus strains still in circulation ...
by Terry Hart and Julian Bilous, consultants, and Osman David Mansoor, UNICEF
In 2006, the Government of Japan offered funding to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to help countries prevent and prepare for future influenza pandemics. Recognizing that support from cold chain and logistics ...
Cold chain and logistics taskforce focuses on interagency cooperationby Osman David Mansoor, UNICEF Programme Division, and Ibrahim El-Ziq, UNICEF Supply Division
In November 2009, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosted a workshop of the Cold Chain and Logistics (CCL) Taskforce. The pur...
Tunisia to demonstrate innovative supply chain solutions for the futureby Patrick Lydon and Ibrahim Abdel Rahim, WHO
A new era of immunization supply systems officially got under way on Friday, January 22, 2010, in Tunis, when the Ministry of Public Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), and ...
Partners begin effort to envision future supply chain systemsby Brent Burkholder, CDC, and Ibrahim El-Ziq, UNICEF Supply Division
In November 2009 at the GAVI Alliance Partners Forum in Hanoi, a group of 43 participants sat down to discuss their vision for future supply chain systems for health. Th...
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Now vaccines can be stored at room temperature
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London: For the first time scientists at Oxford University have found a way of keeping vaccines stable without refrigeration, even at tropica...
Dear Sir, The following report on health worker retention for better health indices is very important as in many states the health indices are unachievable due to shortage of staff at the village level. http://www.who.int/hrh/events/report_second_full_expert_meeting.pdf
I have also co...
Africa Routine Immunization System Essentials (ARISE) Project
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The ARISE project is a two-year learning initiative, managed by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. JSI is partnering wi...
A few more of the HCWM presentations that were made at the annual meeting of the Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN), which was held from 30 November to 2 December 2009. Thanks once again to Selma Khamassi for sharing them with the forum.
Non-Incineration Medical Waste Treatment Pilot Project at Ba...
The annual meeting of the Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN) was held from 30 November to 2 December 2009. The following are some of the presentations on Healthcare Waste Management. Many thanks to Selma Khamassi for sending these to me to be shared with TechNet21 readers.
HCWM--10 Years: Yves Cha...
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Robert Chen sends in this request.
For a study assessing injection site abscesses in a developing country, photos are needed for the training material. The challenge is
that injection site abscesses are uncommon in developed world where cameras are common and more common in less developed settings...
Thank you Nahad Sadr-Azodi for sharing this information with TechNet21 readers.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, in cooperation with United Nations Children’s Fund, is launching the inaugural Vaccination Week in the Eastern Mediterranean Region init...
Nouveau European Immunization Week
Many thanks to Tasnim Partapuri for sharing this information from the The Communication Initiative website. Every year since 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) has dedicated one week in April to raising awareness about the importance of immunization as a public health strategy in Europe. [201...
Vaccine Wastage Assessment, India
By Ranjit Dhiman / Satish Kumar Gupta- UNICEF India
In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Government of India, UNICEF with WHO and partners carried out a vaccine wastage assessment in India. The aim of the study was to understand current vaccine wastage at v...
Since 1994, with USAID funding, JSI has conducted international courses on supply chain management of health commodities. These training activities have been a pivotal part of the supply chain support USAID has funded through the USAID/DELIVER PROJECT and the DELIVER and FPLM projects before that. A...
Dear Moderator,
I'd be grateful to know if any of your readers have experience with use of
cell phones for transmission of cold chain stock position data from the
district level upwards. Kenya has started doing this, using purpose
developed software.
Best rgds,
Bob Davis
(email: [email=robert.davi...
It's really a great step in using mobile phones for the welfare of public health. I am looking anxiously to know more about it. Please keep on posting more about this. This is really a great job....
Dear all,
Do you have information as to which countries, especially among European countries, require written consent for vaccinating against pandemic flu?
I was asked by the ministry to try to find out what the policy in other countries is.
In Croatia, the ministry asked vaccination providers to ...
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