Dear all - Happy 2020!! I came across a relatively recent update to the Cochrane Review of Needle sizes for vaccination. I thought I'd share it with the TechNet Community. The full report is here: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010720.pub3/full Cochrane Database Sy...

The second edition of the user manual for the revised WHO classification for the causality assessment of an adverse event following immunization (AEFI) was developed by the WHO with support from the Global Advisory Committee for Vaccine Safety (GACVS). This was based on the findings of a scientific ...

IAC recently updated its 3-page resource, Skills Checklist for Vaccine Administration, a tool to help assess staff members' and your own skills in administering vaccines. This resource, which is adapted from the California Department of Public Health's Immunization Branch, has been fully updated wit...

Hello all, Microarray patches (MAPs) are under development for delivering vaccine into the skin. The technology has exciting potential for application to immunization programs. PATH is looking for input from experts in low- and middle-income country immunization programs about the feasibility of M...

For realizing the above, identifying maximum causes of gap and operating good practices for mitigation is essential to meet the global vaccination targets by 2020. We made video recording and still photos for presenting in the monthly Academic Society Meeting for teaching purpose, to prevent avoida...

Cross-posted from the SIGN newsletter with thanks! The Yves Chartier Award 2014 rewards an NGO, or an actor from civil society, from an African country, who will have elaborated a campaign or achieved an innovative project in the struggle against antimicrobial resistance and climate change, relat...

Excerpts from a discussion on another forum about adverse events following immunization (AEFI) data collection. Dhruv wrote: A wise option. Why don't we develop a cellphone-based VAERS? Prabir wrote: See http://www.slideshare.net/prabirkc/sms-based-death-reporting which has to do with a simi...

Many thanks to Diana Chang Blanc for sharing this information with the forum! Dear colleagues, ... Please find below the web link to the “first batch” of the WHO Information Sheets on Observed Rates of Vaccine Reactions. We would highly welcome if you could share these sheets with colleagues ...

Cross-posted from the January 2012 issue of GIN with thanks. 31/01/2012 from Madhav Balakrishnan, WHO HQ The Global Network for Post-marketing Surveillance (PMS) of Vaccines was established by WHO in early 2008 with a primary objective to monitor the safety of WHO prequalified vaccines supplied thr...

Cross-posted from the January 2012 GIN issue with thanks. 31/01/2012 from Philipp Lambach, WHO HQ An important part of post-licensure vaccine safety surveillance is to collect and analyse reports of Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI). Analysing multiple AEFI reports helps determine if ...

It all started with this letter to an e-group: Dear Friends, The need for screening before vaccination and the presence of a doctor during the procedure, as stated by Dr T Jacob John, cannot be overemphasized. I am happy that this much sense is now seeping back into mainstream thinking. Now what...

Dear Moderator, Four more infants died due to measles vaccination in Kutch on March 16 and two more died on March 18. There are deaths being reported consistantly all over the country within few minutes of vaccination but none has been attributed to vacination by the investigating...

On 11 May the Safe Injection Global Network published its 598th (yes, 598th) electronic newsletter that reaches some 800 subsribers worldwide. This week's email celebrates World Blood Donor Day but also has 24 other items about safe and appropriate use of injections throughout the world. Examples ...

Have put together some slides on the issues involved. This is an educational power point- long, but of use to prepare classes for health workers or doctors- http://www.slideshare.net/prabirkc/toxic-shock-syndrome...

Attached are some photos of Sun Frost's latest Tubular Sterilizer. Syringes are placed directly into the sterilizer, minimizing handling. When full the vacuum tube sterilizer is removed from its stand and placed in the sun. The collector is effective even in hazy conditions. Fifty syring...

Sun Frost recently developed a solar oven capable of air sterilizing medical equipment. For air sterilizing temperature of 190C must be achieved for 6 minutes. The heart of the sterilizer is an evacuated tube solar collector. The interior of the oven is cylindrical in shape and is 11.5cm in diameter...

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...

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 ...

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 01364E: NEEDLESTICK PREVENTION DEVICES19 DECEMBER 2008 ****************************************** According to the World Health Report 2002, ‘there are 35 million health-care workers, of which 2 million experience percutaneous exposure to infectious diseases each year. The report also ...