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GAVI Immunization Supply Chain Strategy: Data For Management
In December 2012, the GAVI Board recognized the need for the Alliance to strengthen its coordination and support for immunization supply chain performance at global and country levels. To this end, the Alliance assembled a task force to develop an immunization supply chain strategy. After investiga...
Make a fun and creative video to enhance awareness and acceptance of vaccination and win €1,000
Cross-posted from: http://www.vaccinestoday.eu/vaccines/video-competition-for-students/
Drumroll please! Vaccines Today is pleased to launch the 3rd edition of our Communication Challenge.
This video competition offers students in Europe to win €1,000 and a trip to Brussels. Runners up prizes ...
GAVI Alliance Supply Chain Strategy > Supply Chain Performance
Dear TechNet members,
This week, TechNet launches its first moderated discussion. The topic for debate over the following month is the ‘Data for Management’ priority working group of GAVI’s immunization supply chain strategy. Please do share your valuable thoughts and experiences with us on this ...
Realistic storage space per liter in refrigerators
Dear all,
I hope this is a place where I can ask a question in the forum.
WHO PQS-qualified refrigerators used frequently at the health facility level (E003) have a holding capacity measured by a particular WHO testing process. However, most fridges also have certain limitations on that holdi...
WHO-UNICEF guidelines for developing a comprehensive multi-year plan (cMYP)
This IVB document is now online at WHOLIS
WHO-UNICEF guidelines for developing a comprehensive multi-year plan (cMYP)(WHO/IVB/14.01)
This updated document provides guidance to countries to make national comprehensive multi-year strategic plans (cMYP) for immunization, using the Global Va...
WHO/EPELA releases new videos on VVM
Many thanks to Umit Kartoglu for sharing these videos with the TechNet-21 forum!
WHO/EPELA releases the most recently produced expert videos on VVM-based vaccine management. These videos are specifically produced for the new EPELA authentic e-learning course on vaccine vial monitor-based vaccine ...
Performance Based Incentives - New Quiz and Module!
This one has been cross-posted from the IAPHL forum with many thanks!
We are excited to offer you a new quiz from PHiL and a module developed by DELIVER - both on Performance Based Incentives (PBI). Consider it a year end gift to you all.
As you may know there has been tremendous growth in the...
Improving performance of your public health logistics network through supply chain design
Cross-posted from the IAPHL forum with thanks!
The post summarizes the discussion over three weeks.
Week 1: Introduction to Supply Chain Design
? Supply Chain Design is about achieving objectives (Reliability, Responsiveness, Agility, Cost, Assets) by configuring infrastructure and process...
Poliomyelitis - Guidance on practices for polio prevention in refugees/displaced populations
I guess some of you would have followed recent developments around wild polio virus circulation in Syria where they are now clinical cases being reported. see http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_10_29/en/index.html
I am trying to gather guidances, publications, reports of polio intervention among re...
CommTrack Request for Application: Mobile Logistics Proof of Concept in India and Nepal
Dimagi is pleased to announce that it will support five organizations from various sectors in India and Nepal to explore the use of mobile technology for logistics and supply chain management in low-resource settings. Each organization will be supported to launch a proof of concept of CommTrack, an ...
Public consultation on GAVI Alliance Strategy 2016-2020
The GAVI Alliance is currently developing its strategy for the period 2016-2020, which will be presented to the GAVI Board for adoption in June 2014. The approach to develop the new strategy is highly inclusive and builds on the input of all partners and stakeholders in the Alliance. Based on consul...
New costing tools will help policymakers gather and analyse critical supply chain data
To strengthen public health supply chains, policymakers, supply chain managers, and development partners need to know the real costs of delivering commodities. Identifying these costs and the sections of the supply chain that are driving costs can give decisionmakers the data they need to ensure ade...
New IOM software tool helps prioritize vaccine development
Many thanks to Robert Steinglass for sharing this information with TechNet-21.
As diseases emerge and infections re-emerge, new and improved vaccines are needed. The decisions about which vaccines should be developed first can affect millions of people's health, quality of life, and economic prog...
Whether soda or vaccines, the container matters
This article has been cross-posted from IVAC Blog with thanks!
Lois Privor-Dumm MIBS, Director of Policy, Advocacy & Communications and Bruce Lee, Director of Operations Research at IVAC
You are having 100 guests for an outdoor picnic and need to make the decision: do you buy big bottles ...
Use of MenAfriVac™ (meningitis A vaccine) in a controlled temperature chain (CTC) during campaigns
The need to keep vaccines in a 2°C to 8°C cold chain is a constraining factor for many immunization campaigns due to limited storage capacity and/or limited ice pack freezing capacity; supplementary immunization activities planned across sub-Saharan Africa to introduce MenAfriVac™ are a good example...
Four videos on Logistics Information Management Systems from PATH
VaxTrak in Vietnam VaxTrak helps health workers keep track of vaccine stock. In 2011, the Vietnamese National Expanded Programme on Immunization introduced VaxTrak in the provinces of Phu Tho, Quang Tri, and Ben Tre. This short video shows how VaxTrak works and examines the impact it has had. [you...
Demand forecasting
This summary is being cross-posted from the IAPHL discussion forum with many thanks!
The International Association of Public Health Logisticians has recently been engaged in an interesting discussion about demand forecasting. Here are a few highlights from the email exchange. This includes dema...
Updated vaccine temperature stability charts
The popular Temperature Stability of Vaccines slides that were originally produced by Dr. Julie Milstien for the TechNet21 2006 consultation have been further updated. The authors have made some graphic changes based on feedback received from field trainings.
You can access the document here: Te...
Two new publications reconsider the role of the central medical store
The USAID | DELIVER PROJECT has just published Alternative Public Health Supply Chains: Reconsidering the Role of the Central Medical Store (report) and Getting Products to People Without a Traditional Central Medical Store (policy brief). This report and policy brief identify a set of approaches th...
The Risk Management Toolkit: The USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Cross-posted from http://deliver.jsi.com/ with thanks!
Risk management for public health supply chains focuses on how to organize the logistics activities of the supply chain in order to ensure that commodities needed for health programs are continuously available, without disruption. The USAID |...