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     An approach to increase coverage and equity by adapting and using Revised Reaching Every District (RED): MCSP Experiences Adapting the RED Guide in Malawi and Kenya
    This document provides a summary of MCSP/JSI’s experience in the adaptation of the regional Reaching Every District (RED) guideline to country-specific contexts in order to inform other countries undertaking the process.
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  • The recently published topic page on dose per container (DPC) provides a range of useful resources from case studies to decision support documents to better understand the effects of DPC on six immunization system components; namely operational costs, timely coverage, safety, wastage, and policy/correct use.  

    The Dose Per Container Partnership (DPCP) is excited to share these resources and hope that you will find them useful in your work with the immunization system as a whole. We encourage you to share your thoughts with us to continue the conversation on DPC.

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  • The recently published topic page on dose per container (DPC) provides a range of useful resources from case studies to decision support documents to better understand the effects of DPC on six immunization system components; namely operational costs, timely coverage, safety, wastage, and policy/correct use.  

    The Dose Per Container Partnership (DPCP) is excited to share these resources and hope that you will find them useful in your work with the immunization system as a whole. We encourage you to share your thoughts with us to continue the conversation on DPC.

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  • Kelly McDonald added a new resource to the Knowledge Hub
     Dose Per Container: Understanding the Effects of Multidose Vaccine Presentations
    The widespread use of multi-dose vaccine containers in low- and middle-income countries’ immunization programs is assumed to offer benefits and efficiencies for health systems, such as reducing the purchase price per vaccine dose and easing cold chain requirements. Yet the broader impacts on immunization coverage, costs, and safety are not well understood. It is also unclear what processes governments typically go through to determine their choices about dose per container (DPC), and what information decision-makers have or use when determining DPC. To add to the limited evidence base on this topic, the JSI-led Dose Per Container Partnership (DPCP), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with partners Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), the HERMES modeling team and the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) through Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and PATH, undertook a series of activities to explore current decision-making on DPC options and better understand the relationship between DPC and immunization systems, including operational costs, timely coverage, safety, product costs/wastage, and policy/correct use.

    Watch our video, explore the resources below and share your thoughts with us on DPC. 


    Case studies - A series of case studies on DPCP's implemented country-level research, decision making on DPC options, computer simulation modeling, and a review of tools on DPC.
    Decision support resources - Resources that provide decision makers with evidence that can be generalized to help make effective DPC decisions based on country context. Country- and global-level stakeholders — such as Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) managers, logisticians, Ministries of Health (MOHs), Ministries of Finance (MOFs), donors, procurement agencies, manufacturers, global partners, and other stakeholders — can use these resources to better understand the potential trade-offs of various DPC choices and to select the best vaccine presentations for their program. 

      

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  • USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is pleased to introduce our latest publication, Community Monitoring of Individual Children’s Vaccinations: Six Country Experiences.

    This brief details MCHIP/MCSP experiences with community monitoring of vaccinations in Timor-Leste, India, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Tanzania. These efforts involve engaging communities to monitor every child’s individual vaccinations, promote vaccination, and refer caregivers with under-vaccinated children, often supported by use of the My Village is My Home (MVMH) tool, initially developed in India as a public tracking tool to motivate families and create the social expectation that they should keep their children up-to-date on vaccinations.


    Although attributing coverage changes to community monitoring is challenging, countries experienced successes including higher coverage, improved timeliness, and more accurate target populations. In addition, both communities and health staff...

    USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is pleased to introduce our latest publication, Community Monitoring of Individual Children’s Vaccinations: Six Country Experiences.

    This brief details MCHIP/MCSP experiences with community monitoring of vaccinations in Timor-Leste, India, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Tanzania. These efforts involve engaging communities to monitor every child’s individual vaccinations, promote vaccination, and refer caregivers with under-vaccinated children, often supported by use of the My Village is My Home (MVMH) tool, initially developed in India as a public tracking tool to motivate families and create the social expectation that they should keep their children up-to-date on vaccinations.


    Although attributing coverage changes to community monitoring is challenging, countries experienced successes including higher coverage, improved timeliness, and more accurate target populations. In addition, both communities and health staff noted and appreciated a new sense of partnership and joint responsibility for children’s health.


    The brief notes challenges that countries may face implementing community monitoring and the MVMH tool, including selection and supervision of community collaborators, and incentives to reimburse volunteers for their time, effort, and expenses. However, despite these challenges, use of the tool can help empower people to take control of their own and their family’s health, enhance health literacy, hold health services accountable for providing more reliable vaccination sessions, and demonstrate a successful approach that could be adapted to improve health actions beyond immunization. Furthermore, such an approach encourages the health system to emphasize engagement and collaboration with communities.

    Find the brief attached or use the link here - https://www.mcsprogram.org/resource/community-monitoring-of-individual-childrens-vaccinations

     

    Additional information can be found on JSI's website.

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  • USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is pleased to introduce our latest publication, Community Monitoring of Individual Children’s Vaccinations: Six Country Experiences.

    This brief details MCHIP/MCSP experiences with community monitoring of vaccinations in Timor-Leste, India, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Tanzania. These efforts involve engaging communities to monitor every child’s individual vaccinations, promote vaccination, and refer caregivers with under-vaccinated children, often supported by use of the My Village is My Home (MVMH) tool, initially developed in India as a public tracking tool to motivate families and create the social expectation that they should keep their children up-to-date on vaccinations.


    Although attributing coverage changes to community monitoring is challenging, countries experienced successes including higher coverage, improved timeliness, and more accurate target populations. In addition, both communities and health staff...

    USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is pleased to introduce our latest publication, Community Monitoring of Individual Children’s Vaccinations: Six Country Experiences.

    This brief details MCHIP/MCSP experiences with community monitoring of vaccinations in Timor-Leste, India, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Tanzania. These efforts involve engaging communities to monitor every child’s individual vaccinations, promote vaccination, and refer caregivers with under-vaccinated children, often supported by use of the My Village is My Home (MVMH) tool, initially developed in India as a public tracking tool to motivate families and create the social expectation that they should keep their children up-to-date on vaccinations.


    Although attributing coverage changes to community monitoring is challenging, countries experienced successes including higher coverage, improved timeliness, and more accurate target populations. In addition, both communities and health staff noted and appreciated a new sense of partnership and joint responsibility for children’s health.


    The brief notes challenges that countries may face implementing community monitoring and the MVMH tool, including selection and supervision of community collaborators, and incentives to reimburse volunteers for their time, effort, and expenses. However, despite these challenges, use of the tool can help empower people to take control of their own and their family’s health, enhance health literacy, hold health services accountable for providing more reliable vaccination sessions, and demonstrate a successful approach that could be adapted to improve health actions beyond immunization. Furthermore, such an approach encourages the health system to emphasize engagement and collaboration with communities.

    Find the brief attached or use the link here - https://www.mcsprogram.org/resource/community-monitoring-of-individual-childrens-vaccinations

     

    Additional information can be found on JSI's website.

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