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Release of new tool for conducting temperature monitoring studies
A new tool for collecting, analysing, and reporting temperature data has been released by WHO. This Microsoft Excel tool, which can be used as part of a temperature monitoring study, is available as a zip file on the WHO website, and comes with a set of user documentation.
www.who.int/publica...
Updates to the WHO Temperature Mapping Tool for cold chain equipment and dry stores
The ‘Cold chain equipment and dry store temperature mapping tool’ is a tool for mapping temperatures in various types of cold chain equipment and dry stores and is available in official United Nations (UN) languages. Version 10.0 was released in January 2026 and includes various performance improvem...
Happy World Immunization Week(end)!
Sharing the following from WHO's World Immunization Week 2026 website.
Vaccines have long been one of the most powerful tools in public health. Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives – not by accident, but because ordinary people made the decision to protect themsel...
National immunization policies and facility SOPs for vaccine management
Dear colleagues, I’ve created a repository of national immunization policies and SOPs for vaccine management at facility level. This comes from what is available online, combined with publications that have been shared with me.
https://www.technet-21.org/en/topics/programme-management/sops
Fi...
Immunization Agenda 2030: mid-term review
The IA2030 mid-term review has just been published on the WHO website:
https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/immunization-agenda-2030--mid-term-review
Here's a short summary of the document.
The document provides a timely assessment of global immunization progress at the halfway poin...
Why vaccination timeliness matters
Dear colleagues, I am sharing a recent article on vaccination timeliness that I found very interesting in the context of assessing immunization programme performance (in additon to, say, coverage):
"Vaccination timeliness is a key measure of immunisation system performance: A call to address priori...
User guides for temperature monitoring devices
TechNet has published a new page that contains a huge list of user guides for WHO-PQS prequalified cold chain equipment temperature monitoring devices. It is organised into the following sections:
Shipping indicators
Freeze indicators
Threshold indicators
Vaccine Vial Monitors (VVM)
Remote te...
Solo, Going
This is a bittersweet announcement. My boss, colleague, mentor, and friend Souleymane ('Solo') Kone, logistician extraordinaire, is retiring at the end of this month. He is far too modest to mark the event, and would likely slip quietly away into the Malian sunset if he was permitted to do so...
Bu...
Ask me anything about… EVM and cIP
Got a question on the Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) assessment tool? Or the continuous improvement planning (cIP) process? Now’s your chance to ask.
The EVM assessment and cIP development and tracking tools have been instrumental in helping more than 100 countries to strengthen their immunizat...
Guidance on handling cold chain emergencies
Dear TechNet colleagues, I have put together a new Hot Topic page this lists available guidance on handling cold chain emergencies. This is intended to support the preparedness and response capabilities of health personnel in maintaining vaccine integrity during emergencies, principally temperature ...
Do you BlueSky?
Dear colleagues, TechNet now has an account on BlueSky, a microblogging social media platform similar in some ways to Twitter/X. If you have a Bluesky account and use it in a professional capacity related to immunization, please follow us here:
https://bsky.app/profile/technet-21.org
We are puttin...
"More than 1,200 patients at Sydney GP clinic given less effective vaccines due to storage issues" (Guardian)
Sharing the following news article from the UK Guardian newspaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/11/sydney-gp-vaccine-storage-issue-holy-family-medical-dulwich-hill
"A letter from the practice to a parent whose child received a vaccine during this period seen by Guardia...
Looking for Ghana cold chain film from 1970s
Dear all, I was recently made aware that WHO produced a documentary film on the achievement of Ghana in establishing "the first developing country vaccine cold chain, a model then reproduced by all countries in the World" (as described by Michel Zaffran in his recent forum post on John Lloyd). The f...
Looking for old photos of vaccine storage and transport equipment - please share
Hi colleagues, I am looking to copile a photo album of cold chain equipment in use from the launch of EPI in 1974 until the the birth of WHO PQS in 2007. If you have any good examples of early vaccine refrigerators and freezers (or domestics), cold boxes, vaccine carriers, and temperature monitoring...
What were the most important innovations and milestones in the evolution of the immunization supply chain since 1974?
Dear TechNet community, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). WHO and other partners will be commemorating this with various events and publications throughout the year.
One idea being considered is a short video on the evolution...
“The Delivery”: A digital time capsule that preserves the stories and data of the COVID-19 vaccine delivery efforts
Dear TechNet Community, sharing below a link to the new “The Delivery” website.
https://the-delivery.org/
“Ambitious, imperfect and resilient. These are the remarkable stories and findings from the COVID-19 vaccine delivery, preserved for future generations in a digital replica of the very device ...
Recordings and slides for TechNet Conference presentations now available
Dear all, we have just released the recordings for all TechNet Conference plenary sessions (and all breakout sessions in the main auditorium) on the TechNet-21 YouTube channel. Also available are all the the slides presented in plenary and breakout sessions. Note that the recordings are current...
Application form to attend the 17th TechNet Conference - now open!
Dear TechNet members, we are delighted to announce that you can now submit your application to attend the 17th TechNet Conference in Panama City, Panama on 16-19 October 2023. The link to the application form is provided below and should take about 10 minutes to complete. The application form will...
17th TechNet Conference: Call for Abstracts
Dear colleagues, the TechNet Conference Planning Committee has released a Call for Abstracts. Please click the link below if you want to submit an abstract for a presentation or poster that will be featured at the conference. We would love to hear your ideas!
17th TechNet Conference: Request f...
Get ready for 17th TechNet Conference!
We are delighted to confirm that the 17th TechNet Conference will take place in Panama City, Panama in the Region of the Americas (PAHO). The conference will begin on Monday, October 16, 2023 and finish on Thursday, October 19, 2023.
The title of the TechNet Conferene will be:
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