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Are Vertical Supply Chains Still Necessary?
Are Vertical Supply Chains Still Necessary?by Modibo Dicko, Coordinator, Project Optimize, WHO For the past 30 years, immunization—like many other health programs—has been managed as a vertical program with its own management team, reporting requirements, personnel, and supply chain. Attempts to li...
How to manage measles control? WHO-PATH's new e-Learning module
The Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning website launched a new module on 7 October to support the World Health Organization's computer-based Measles Strategic Planning (MSP) tool. The MSP was developed to help countries develop measles vaccination strategies to meet their measles contr...
UNICEF's New and Emerging Talent Initiative (NETI) Programme
Juliana Abakah-Katz from UNICEF sends in this contribution on the New and Emerging Talent Initiative Programme (NETI), whichis an entry point for external professionals interested in an international career with UNICEF. As part of UNICEF’s global talent management strategy to achieve its current and...
VPPAG consultation on Generic Preferred Product Profile for new vaccines: comments invited
Dear Padmini
VPPAG is currently consulting on a paper on the generic Preferred Product
Profile (gPPP) for new vaccines used by national programmes in developing
countries. The document is currently open for consultation until July 15th. (see attached)
Kindly find it at our site:
http://sites.googl...
On the importance of Program support to EPI logistics
Michel and others,
Thanks for suggesting two different discussion tracks.
Pioneers in EPI logistics such as yourself, James Cheyne, Modibo Dicko, John Lloyd have done and continue to do a formidable job of improving storage conditions, creating VVMs, creating transportation systems to reach geo...
The Battery-Free Solar Refrigerator Challenge
by Joanie Robertson, Technical Officer, PATH In March 2009, six companies submitted designs to PATH in response to its Battery-Free Solar Refrigerator Challenge. Product designs that meet desired specifications will receive financial assistance to cover the cost of third-party testing required for...
Oral Polio Delivered Safely Without Icepacks in Recent Study
Oral Polio Delivered Safely Without Icepacks in Recent Study
by Ariane Halm, EPIET (European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training), and Olivier Ronveaux, WHO
Optimizerecently completed a study with the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office and the Ministry of Health in Mali to ...
Why Optimize?
Why Optimize?by Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director General, WHO Family and Community Health Cluster,and Chris Elias, President and CEO, PATH In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) and PATH jointly launched Optimize, a five-year effort to help countries anticipate and manage the growing complex...
Half India's children are not immunised
http://WWW.VACCINEINDIA.ORG
Almost half India’s children are not immunised
ONLY 54.1 per cent of India's children are fully immunised. The other half -- this includes the 11.3 per cent who never received any form of vaccination -- run the risk of disease as they have failed to complete even the basi...
How Accurate Weather Data Can Strengthen Logistics
by Steve McCarney, PATH
Chihuahua, Mexico, just south of the US border, is so predictably sunny, one hardly needs to consult a newspaper to predict the weather. Chances are it will be sunny and dry. A few hours south, in Mexico City, the weather is more temperate and cloud cover more frequent dur...
Tunisia Explores New Supply Chain Solutions for Health
Tunisia Explores New Supply Chain Solutions for Health
by Patrick Lydon, WHO
After several preliminary discussions, World Health Organization (WHO) and PATH will collaborate on a project with the Ministry of Health in Tunisia to demonstrate and validate: (a) approaches that address anticipated ch...
Senegal To Explore Integrated Supply Chains and New Delivery Models
Senegal To Explore Integrated Supply Chains and New Delivery Models
by Modibo Dicko, WHO; Dr. Aboubakry Fall, Ministry of Public Health Senegal; and Dr. Ndiouga Diallo, PATH
Optimize is discussing an agreement with the Ministry of Health in Senegal to explore several new approaches to supply chai...
Vietnam To Assess and Evaluate Opportunities To Optimize
Vietnam To Assess and Evaluate Opportunities To Optimizeby Joanie Robertson and James Cheyne, PATH
Optimize is drafting a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Health, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE), in Vietnam to possibly implement two phases of work. The first,...
Avoiding Disaster: Cold Chain and Logistics (NUVI presentation)
The third meeting on New and Underutilised Vaccine Implementation organised by WHO was held in Montreux, Switzerland from 16-19 June. There were 120 participants.
Nine workshops were held covering various aspects like Surveillance, Preferred vaccine presentations, Coordination Between National Regul...
Logistics of Health Care Waste Management: Information and Approaches for Developing Country Settings
The Supply Chain Management Team within the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT is pleased to announce the availability of a new technical document, Logistics of Health Care Waste Management
Information and Approaches for Developing Country Settings
You can find the document on the USAID | DELIVER website www...
HIGH-TECH INCINERATOR FOR HEALTHCARE WASTE/IMMUNIZATION WASTE/INJECTION WASTE - TANZANIA
Dear Colleagues,
Below please find information on newly devised incineratorfor healthcare waste and immunization waste developed by healthcare wasteexpert in Tanzania.
The incinerator has the following features coupled together:
1) High tech chamber with burner(s), operated at 900C
2) Gas c...
Solicitation of visual cues for vaccine discard
On behalf of the chair of the Technologies and Logistics Advisory Committee (TLAC, http://www.who.int/immunization_deliver ... index.html) of WHO, Bruce Weniger, we are seeking ideas from the TechNet community for two new graphic “visual cues” for use on vaccine vials to guide health workers for whe...
Injection Safety and Health care waste management assessment in Seychelles
Seychelles injection safety and waste management assessment 25th June-7th July2009
Seychelles is a multi-ethnic tri-lingual state with its origin from three continents: Africa, Asia and Europe. It is an upper middle income developing country organised into 25 districts with a 2009 estimated mi...
Safety Boxes in Africa
Hello,
I would like to enquire if someone has worked on setting up a manufacturing plant for safety boxes in Africa. If such an attempt has been made, what have the outcomes been. I am assuming the safety boxes are currently being imported from elsewhere.
Regards,
Abhisheka Jhunjhunwala...
Vaccination Supplies Stock Management (VSSM)
Vaccination Supplies Stock Management (VSSM) was first developed in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) in late 2006 and the later versions were developed by receiving support from WHO HQs. VSSM has been used in Sudan and Egypt and recently was installed in Laos, Iran, Uzbekistan and no...