SurveyMonkey results 160917
Topic 2 : Advancing technologies and techniques of distribution
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Most respondents (n=6 Saturday) agreed that the impact of improvements in technology. and technique on vaccine distribution is high or somewhat high. But only a third of respondents believe that adequate assessment has been made of the impact of scheduled deliveries to replace ad-hoc collection. Only a quarter believe that consumption data are reported and used routinely in forecasting requirements.This gives some idea of the scale of the task ahead to demonstrate and scale up improvements in assessing requirements and achieving regular and sufficient distribution.
Country managers are hardly involved in the process of development of new equipment and they remain poorly informed on the availability of new options, most respondents feel. This impression may be created by the tendency for early development to be shared by very few countries, then new options appearing on the market without intermediate field assessment in greater numbers of countries before scaling up to the global market. The specific example of a hybrid ILR/SDD refrigerator to simplify choice and procurement was popular among respondents but needs more thought and assessment before radical change to simplify procurement.
This reaction reveals the inadequacy of the current, single global PQS committee that is now responsible for new cold chain product profiles. A broader consideration is needed involving country programme management. Please see the attached file for the full results.