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Improvements to the TechNet-21 website - coming up soon
Dear TechNet members, Good News! The TechNet-21 website is being upgraded next week. The new website will look nicer, work better on mobile devices, be better organised, and will provide a more powerful platform for partners to share information with the global immunization community. The changes wi...
Webinar: What is Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) and why is it so important?
New! Announcing a new webinar series on the WHO-UNICEF Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) assessment tool and how it can support the successful implementation of a national immunization continuous improvement plan (cIP). The four webinars will be:
What is Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) and wh...
Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) Capacity-Building Workshop in Kigali, Rwanda now streaming online
Due to unprecedented demand, the EVM Capacity-Building Workshop taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from 16-28 May will be streamed live online starting at 09:00 Central Africa Time (UTC+2) on 16/05/2022. As well as the plenary sessions, both the separate English and French sessions will be streamed. A c...
continuous improvement plan (cIP) Development tool for ISC strengthening released
WHO and UNICEF have made a powerful new tool available to Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) assessment managers. Once an EVM assessment has been completed, EVM managers can download the Microsoft Excel-based tool and use it to generate a list of improvement activities that address the weaknesses id...
How to keep a cold chain cold?
Over the coming weeks, TechNet-21 will host a new webinar series entitled "Temperature Monitoring: Keeping a Cold Chain Cold". In this series, we will explore the different technologies available for active temperature monitoring of your cold chain. Practical experiences from countries using 30...
TechNet server security incident
Earlier this month, on October 1st 2021, it was discovered that the security of the TechNet web server had been compromised by an unknown entity. The site was immediately taken offline while a team of security professionals cleaned and secured the site. This process took about six hours to complete....
National Deployment and Vaccination Plan: preparation, submission, and review process (webinar #1)
Dear TechNet members,
The 'COVID-19 Vaccination: Building Global Capacity' webinar series begins on Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 12- 1 PM CET. The first session is intended to provide national and sub-national focal points in countries with an overview of the National Deployment and Vacci...
Upcoming webinar series 'COVID-19 Vaccination: Building Global Capacity'
Dear colleagues, passing on the announcement of this very timely webinar series... the registration link for the first session next week is at the end of this post.
COVID-19 Vaccination: Building Global Capacity
The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’s Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) ...
Key immunization supply chain planning tools - now listed in one place
Due to ongoing problems with the WHO website, and increased demand caused by the COVID-19 response, I have created a new topic page that lists the key ISC planning tools created by the WHO Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).
Cold Chain Equipment Inventory and Gap Analys...
Guidance on developing a national deployment and vaccination plan for COVID-19 vaccines
WHO and UNICEF have just released intermin guidance on developing a national deployment and vaccination plan for COVID-19 vaccines. This document is intended to guide national governments in developing and updating their national deployment and vaccination plan (NDVP) for COVID-19 vaccines, and...
All TechNet Conference slides and recordings now online
Missed a presentation at the TechNet Conference last month? Want to watch one again or need to contact a presenter? Good news: resources for all presentations at the 16th TechNet Conference are now available online. The following page provides a list of important conference resources: the full progr...
TechNet Conference agenda now online
Good news: the Planning Committee have finalised the program for the TechNet Conference and the full agenda is now available on the TechNet Conference page.
https://www.technet-21.org/en/conference/2020
Over two days, more than one hundred presenters from across the globe will provide expert persp...
TechNet Conference 20-21 October: Registration is now OPEN
It's been a long time since we last convened in October 2017 in Cascais, Portugal for the 15th TechNet Conference. But the good news is finally here: three years later, the conference is returning!
The 16th TechNet Conference will take place online over two days: 20-21 October.The conference will b...
Portable vaccine refrigerators – do we need them?
Recent developments in refrigerator technology offer healthcare workers the ability to store vaccines in portable active (powered) refrigeration devices, rather than in traditional passive vaccine carriers. It’s an intriguing idea that offers the potential to both increase the length of time that va...
Operational guidelines for National Immunization Programs in the WHO African Region
Immunization in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: Operational guidelines for National Immunization Programs in the WHO African Region
Please find attached the draft operational guidelines from the WHO AFRO IVD program, developed for countries in the AFRO Region, in order to guide the condu...
TechNet Conference and COVID-19
Dear TechNet members, a few months ago I had planned to announce the dates of the next TechNet Conference for October 2020. Subsequently the COVID-19 pandemic struck and this has unfortunately affected our plans. It is therefore necessary to postpone the conference.
We are now planning to reschedul...
Webinar on PQS cold chain equipment area on TechNet: 17 October 2019
Do you work with WHO PQS-prequalified cold chain equipment – refrigerators and freezers, cold boxes and vaccine carriers, coolant packs, and temperature monitoring devices? If so, you may be interested in the new Cold Chain Equipment (CCE) area of TechNet-21.org, which includes detailed information ...
Looking for immunization supply chain resources
Dear TechNet members, I'm trying to work out the best place to go on the Internet to find immunization supply chain-related resources such as guidance documents, eLearning videos, etc. This is the list I could come up with. Please can you share others if you know of any. Many thanks.
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Not coming to the conference? Watch online
Dear TechNet community,
The 15th TechNet Conference will take place next week in Cascais, Portugal. All plenary sessions will be streamed on the TechNet-21 channel on YouTube, so if you are not attending in person you can still participate remotely.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TechNet21
Please u...
When to consider solar, based on hours of mains/generator electricity available each day
I’ve been reading with great interest the most recent issue of Vaccine, which is dedicated to “Building Next-Generation Immunization Supply Chains”.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0264410X/35/17
I particularly enjoyed the following article but was surprised to read that the authors i...