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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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We are pleased to announce the “Overview Course in Supply Chain Management of Health Commodities", a new training designed to increase professionals of the health sector’s understanding of logistics ...
Rabies has been one of the most dreaded diseases, often leading to painful death in human beings. Globally, around 55,000 people die of Rabies and, of them, 20,000 die in India alone. The animal bite incidence rate is 17.4/1000 that is 17.4 million bites every year in India. The frequency of animal ...
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I have a question on multi-dose vial policy for adjuvanted pandemic vaccines.
We received Focetria, MF59C.1 adjuvanted vaccine in 10-dose presentations which contains thimerosal as a preservative. Can WHO multi-dose vial policy be applied to this vaccine (to use it four weeks after the...
The Lagos State Waste Management Authority organised their fourth Medical Waste Summit, which was held on 26 and 27 October, 2009 at the National Arts Theatre Iganmu, Lagos with the theme “Safe Management of Healthcare Waste: The Time is Now”. This short report on the proceedings has been shared wit...
Managing cold chain equipment is getting easierby Sophie Newland, David Lubinski, and John Lloyd, PATH
Introducing newer, bulkier vaccines into a national immunization schedule can be a tricky job for logisticians. Is there enough space? Is there enough equipment? Is it in the right location? Is t...
Fee-based immunization in Vietnam—what can we learn?by Dai Hozumi, PATH, and Nguyen Van Cuong, NIHE
While most people in Vietnam receive traditional Expanded Programme on Immunization vaccines free from government-run clinics and health centers, many others elect to receive these and other immunizat...
Albania explores computerized immunization registries by Jan Grevendonk, PATH, and Olivier Ronveaux, WHO In early 2009, the Albanian Institute for Public Health (IPH) asked Optimize, a WHO-PATH collaboration, to develop a strategy for a computerized national immunization registry and vaccine orderin...
by Michel Zaffran, WHO; Julie Milstien, consultant; and Modibo Dicko, WHO
It has long been known that certain vaccines are stable for long periods of time at temperatures outside the standard cold chain protocol of 2[sup]o[/sup] to 8[sup]o[/sup]C. However, until recently, there have been few rea...
Optimizing presentation and packaging for HPV vaccinesby Debbie Kristensen and D. Scott LaMontagne, PATH
Working in collaboration with the Vaccine Presentation and Packaging Advisory Group (VPPAG), representatives from the public health community have initiated a series of studies to guide presentat...
Nouveau About H1N1 pandemic vaccine
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According to your experience, what is the main target (and steps) population for H1N1 vaccine?
In my country, first healthcare professionals (this week) followed by school children (age definition not described yet).
For childhood population:
you prefer to first vaccinate the high r...
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I have faced one question regarding NIDs, which is: if one of the governorates or provinces in any country achieves a routine immunization coverage rate of more than 95%, is there need to proceed with NIDs? This question was raised in Iraq.
My first response: I reminded him (o...
Currently Abhay Clinics are providing vaccine refrigerators to private practitioners in their network. Government agencies use the old Bluestar or VestFrost ILRs at the block and district levels and Walk In Coolers above this. Voltas does not seem to make ILRs. The new Haier ILRs appear to be of a d...
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The ever increasing number of children getting paralysed in India is a matter of serious concern, nobody is talking about. Here is just a small evidence (see the attachment) to show that we need to look beyond polio eradication strategies to minimise the total number of children suffer...
Dear Friends, Here is more on intradermal delivery of vaccines. As many as 10 vaccines can be given intradermally to spare costs as well as doses, but unfortunately this is not promoted by vested interests. Please see the link on the WHO website: http://www.who.int/immunization_delivery/systems_poli...
New research results published today!
Available at:(http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-698X/9?issue=S1).
This is to announce the publication today of a journal supplement titled The
Fallacy of coverage: uncovering disparities and improving immunization
coverage - The Canadian International Immuni...
Information gathered from the Health Ministry through the RTI Act confirms the overall shortage of 17 crore doses for diphtheria, measles, tetanus and oral polio vaccine.The shortage for diphtheria vaccine is nine crore doses, followed by 3.14 crore for tetanus, three crore for oral polio vaccine an...
The Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning website launched a new module on 7 October to support the World Health Organization's computer-based Measles Strategic Planning (MSP) tool. The MSP was developed to help countries develop measles vaccination strategies to meet their measles contr...
The Government of India's Health Ministry is developing a software which will keep a thorough record of all health campaigns, including immunisation. "The outcome of immunisation drives is not satisfactory. I asked my officers how they arrive at these figures and the reply was not very convinc...
Juliana Abakah-Katz from UNICEF sends in this contribution on the New and Emerging Talent Initiative Programme (NETI), whichis an entry point for external professionals interested in an international career with UNICEF. As part of UNICEF’s global talent management strategy to achieve its current and...
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A Modeling Study concludes that new vaccines could substantially reduce TB incidence and mortality. Similarily, I strongly feel that the recent 31% success with the new HIV vaccine could have been further enhanced if given in conjunction with ART. Please see the link below: http://www...
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