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TechNet Futures report on Topic 5: Addressing Safety to Maintain Acceptance: please see full results in attached file.
EXTENT OF DATA FALSIFICATION FROM THE SOURCE(HFs) IN NIGERIA Quality immunization data is one of the major challenge of immunization in Nigeria. Data as a tool used to monitor performance for action become difficult to analysed, difficult to make decisions, difficult to planning and difficult for utilization of scarce available resources. How quality is our data? How can we used the data for planning? how could the data generated translate into financial support derived from donors? Possible causes for data falsification 1. Deliberate falsification of data. 2. Genuine errors, incompleteness of data might be attributed to work overload 3. Some other legitimate reason – transcription error etc. Planned monitoring and evaluation activity through data quality survey (DQS) was adopted to explore data quality issues at different level of data collect process with emphases on the health facility level (Data source). It conducted in Bauchi state for three consecutive...
83% of respondents agreed strongly or somewhat that failure to oversee temperature monitoring and maintenance services is a prime cause of high failure rates that are typically more than twice the rates found in industrialized countries. Temperature monitoring has been a local, routine refrigerator management activity for responsible health staff and storekeepers. Now the data generated by continuous temperature monitoring is transmitted to a central server together with other performance parameters of the supply chain. However a third the respondents believe that efforts to introduce these LMIS systems are fragmented and half the respondents are concerned that too little attention is being given to inter-operability between proprietary LMIS systems. As field data are transmitted to a central point in each country consideration is being given to sharing national data internationally. While 17% of respondents agreed that some use can be made by international stakeholders such as equip...
This is a response to the proposal to evaluate accelular Pertussis as a less heat sensitive candidate for DTP and Pentavalent vaccines. The hope would be to develop a 'Flagship' hexavalent vaccine for CTC that contains vaccines that are very heat stable.
The authors are experts but will remain anonymous unless this receives a response. Their comment was 'Do no harm':
I am left with the impression that this question has not been examined or documented thoroughly. I expect that if we wished, we could convince industry to achieve such important goals as the Flagship Hexavalent !
Smart Phones and 30DTR Joanie Robinson pointed out that there are many locations using 30DTR's and "without remote data acess", making data analyssis more challanging, To make use of this already in place recorder, data from a 30DTR could be down loaded into an app on a smart phone to carry out the appropriate calculations. Monthly Performance From 30 days of recorded data the MKT temperature could be calculated. If the MKT temperature is 8 deg C or lower the screen would indicate good performance. If the MKT temperature is above 8 deg C the screen would indicate the loss of life due to higher temperatures. The results could be displayed for vaccines of vaccines of differing sensitivities. The screen could show the life of a new vaccine at 8 deg C and the reduced life as a consequence of the 30 day tempe...
SurveyMonkey results 160917 Topic 2 : Advancing technologies and techniques of distribution ________________________________________________ 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, the...
Vaccine Supply Chain Futures 2/6 : Advancing technologies of cooled-distribution What are the advances in technology and technique that are available now or in the near future and that are likely to be critical success factors for the vaccine supply chain? In this, second topic on ‘futures’ of the vaccine chain I am proposing four important advances: Distribution of supplies in today’s world is achieved by pre-planned, regular, timely delivery from higher level to lower level stores. Quality and efficiency will never be achieved by ad-hoc collection of vaccines; Rates of vaccine consumption and utilization at the point of administration and in real-time can and should drive vaccine requirements forecasting at all levels. Data transmission technology to implement this is becoming available everywhere: Accidental freezing of vaccines that remains as a persistent problem particularly during immunization outreach and campaigns can be eliminated by new cooling technologies; In...
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