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Mojtaba Haghgou and Hailu Kenea write from Islamabad (Pakistan) and share newspaper clippings on the Federal Vaccine Store in Islamabad. The Government of Pakistan is committed to improving the quality parameters of the Federal Vaccine Store located in the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islam...

Dear moderator: As you may know, since November 2007, IMMUNIZATIONbasics project, along with other partners, started to provide extensive technical support to the National Immunization Program (NIP) in Rwanda, helping technical staff with the preparation of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduct...

This issue of HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice compiles examples of how mobiles phones in developing countries are being used creatively to advance public health. Suggest we compile similar examples in immunization programs. ##text##...

Dear Technet Readers, Addendum to the call for unpublished documents ("grey literature") on reasons for non-immunization: In collaboration with a new WHO project on Gender and Immunization, IMMUNIZATIONbasics would like to note a particular interest in reviewing unpublished data and infor...

Dear FORUM, The recent reports of NFHS/ DLHS reinforce the gap between the reported cverage and validated coverage, which is cause for concern. Whereas health managers react with denial and mistrust to the survey reports, we need to revisit and review the aggregate reporting system, which leaves a l...

The World Health Organization has prepared a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) on vaccines for the new influenza A(H1N1), which can be accessed on the following website: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/frequently_asked_questions/vaccine_preparedness/en/index.html Jhimil Bahl, Techn...

The Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning website recently launched a new module to help decision-making on rotavirus vaccine introduction. The module provides comprehensive information from basic disease characteristics through immunization session planning; this interactive online to...

The USAID-funded IMMUNIZATIONbasics project would appreciate your assistance in identifying studies and reports from developing countries that contain information on characteristics of, or reasons for, unvaccinated (or incompletely vaccinated) children. We are interested only in documents that are ...

The Role of Handheld Devices in Immunizationby Olivier Ronveaux, Technical Officer EPI, WHO For 30 years, paper and pencil have been the dominant form of record keeping in immunization programs through out the world. After all, paper is inexpensive and ubiquitous, functional in case of power-outage,...

Public Sector and Industry: Working Together to Better Meet Developing Country Needsby Debra D. Kristensen, Senior Technical Officer and Policy Advisor, PATH, and Christopher B. Nelson, Senior Director, Medical Affairs and Policy, Merck & Co, Inc. Originally established in 2007 by the GAVI Allia...

Demonstration Projects to Evaluate Innovative System Changes by Carol Levin, Senior Health Economist, PATH Starting in 2009, Optimize will begin large-scale demonstration projects with four collaborating countries and conduct operational research with several others to build an evidence base for the...

A New, Comprehensive, Effective Vaccine Management Tool by Osman David Mansoor, Senior Advisor EPI, UNICEF; Hailu Kenea, Technical Officer EPI, WHO; and Andrew Garnett, PATH Consultant Following a consultative meeting held at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on March 9 & 10, 2009, W...

POST 01423E: TOOLS FOR SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01412E, 01415 & 01420E 28 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** Dear Padmini, We would like to thank all those who have provided feedback on these tools, and encourage them to change them i...

POST 01421E: SYRINGE MELTERS FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01406E & 01411E 24 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** Joanie Robertson responds to Hans Everts’s questions regarding how many syringes of a given type can be melted and whether the melter is easily transportable....

POST 01420E: INJECTION SAFETY SUPERVISION TOOL FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01412E & 01415 22 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** Hi, I have looked through the Injections Safety Supervision Tool. My observation is in section 3 on safe disposal; It only addressed placing of the syri...

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 01412E: FOUR TOOLS FOR SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION 5 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** Attached please find the English version of our 4 tools for supportive supervision of health centers in immunization. We would very much appreciate your feedback on the use of th...

POST 01411E: SYRINGE MELTER FOLLOW-UP ON POST 01406E 2 APRIL 2009 ****************************************** In addition to mentioning that the capacity is sufficient and that the melter can deal with 1-3 liters of syringes, it would be useful to know how many syringes of a given type ...

POST 01410E: STUDY ON COOL WATER PACKS 31 MARCH 2009 ****************************************** Umit Kartoglu from the World Health Organisation sends this report on the latest study on cool water packs, i.e. water packs refrigerated between 2°C to 8 °C, and their impact on the cold life...