A New, Comprehensive, Effective Vaccine Management Tool by Osman David Mansoor, Senior Advisor EPI, UNICEF; Hailu Kenea, Technical Officer EPI, WHO; and Andrew Garnett, PATH Consultant Following a consultative meeting held at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on March 9 & 10, 2009, W...

POST 01424E: INTRODUCE NEW VACCINES BUT WHAT ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY TO OLDER ESSENTIAL VACCINES? 30 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** Dear Moderator, I saw the mail for RFP for newer vaccines but what about accessibility to older essential vaccines in the devel...

POST 01423E: TOOLS FOR SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01412E, 01415 & 01420E 28 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** Dear Padmini, We would like to thank all those who have provided feedback on these tools, and encourage them to change them i...

POST 01421E: SYRINGE MELTERS FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01406E & 01411E 24 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** Joanie Robertson responds to Hans Everts’s questions regarding how many syringes of a given type can be melted and whether the melter is easily transportable....

POST 01420E: INJECTION SAFETY SUPERVISION TOOL FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01412E & 01415 22 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** Hi, I have looked through the Injections Safety Supervision Tool. My observation is in section 3 on safe disposal; It only addressed placing of the syri...

POST 01415E: INJECTION SAFETY SUPERVISION TOOL FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01412E 11 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** Thanks for the injection safety supervision tool posted on the TechNet21 (forum). I think it is a laudable effort to simplify existing tools - and thus maki...

POST 01412E: FOUR TOOLS FOR SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION 5 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** Attached please find the English version of our 4 tools for supportive supervision of health centers in immunization. We would very much appreciate your feedback on the use of th...

POST 01411E: SYRINGE MELTER FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01406E 2 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** In addition to mentioning that the capacity is sufficient and that the melter can deal with 1-3 liters of syringes, it would be useful to know how many syringes of a given type ...

POST 01410E: STUDY ON COOL WATER PACKS 31 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** Umit Kartoglu from the World Health Organisation sends this report on the latest study on cool water packs, i.e. water packs refrigerated between 2°C to 8 °C, and their impact on the cold life...

POST 01408E: NEW PACK-ANIMAL TRANSPORTABLE SOLAR-POWERED REFRIGERATOR 28 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** Many thanks to Joanie Robertson ([[email protected]][email protected][/email]) from PATH for sharing this report with us. She writes: PATH has been aw...

POST 01407E: EPI IN LEBANON 26 March 2009 ****************************************** Dear all, Greetings from Lebanon... This is to kindly share with you, as I promised, (the) EPI documentary and a TV spot that Ministry of Public Health has produced, knowing that they are both ...

POST 01406E: EVALUATION OF SYRINGE MELTER 22 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** Dear TechNet moderator, I am forwarding a report of an evaluation of a syringe melter conducted in Andhra Pradesh in 2008. The melter was developed by Mike Werner, then of New Paradigm A...

POST 01405E: OPTIMUM AGE FOR MEASLES VACCINATION FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01403E 21 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** The WHO position paper on measles vaccine says that, "The optimum age for measles vaccination depends on the local epidemiological situation and on p...

POST 01403E: MEASLES VACCINATION SCHEDULE 17 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** Riadh Karem ([[email protected]][email protected][/email]), a public health doctor from Iraq, has a question regarding the measles vaccination schedule: He says that at present there ...

POST 01401E: RESURGENCE OF MEASLES 11 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** In some countries where measles was near elimination there has been a sudden resurgence of the disease. Low vaccine coverage could have many reasons, including financial impediments, and geographica...

POST 01395E: SEARCH ENGINES FOR SURVEILLANCE/SMS FOR DOTS MONITORING 26 FEBRUARY 2009 ****************************************** USING SEARCH ENGINE DATA FOR SURVEILLANCE The two articles talk about how Google can be used to predict flu epidemics by analyzing search statistics in ...

POST 01392E: MORE ON SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01386E AND 01388E 21 FEBRUARY 2009 ****************************************** Dear Technet moderator, Your constituency may be interested in a new approach to supportive supervision we are introducing in Mali. In past ye...

POST 01391E: VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO VIRUS 18 FEBRUARY 2009 ****************************************** In the context of the discussions on polio eradication on our forum (see POSTS: 01354E), these reports hold great interest. Cross-posting yet again from CSU, with a big thank you to Bob D...

POST 01388E: SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION IN INDIA FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01386E 11 FEBRUARY 2009 ****************************************** Though the article referred to by James Cheyne has already been posted on the forum (see POST 01252E) I am reposting it since it has relevance in the context of ...

POST 01386E: TRAINING IN SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION 8 FEBRUARY 2009 ****************************************** Tasnim Partapuri ([email=%[email protected]%3E]%[email protected]%3E[/email]) of ImmunizationBasics shares tools for supportive supervision training with TechNet21 readers. ...