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24 May 2024, Vol. 99, No. 21, pp. 271–284 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 271 WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme: acute emergencies monthly summary – April 2024 274 Progress towards polio eradication – worldwide, January 2022–December 2023 24 mai 2024, Vol. 99, No. 21, pp. 271-284 Maintena...Publication en cours de modérationStatut publié avec succès. Il est désormais visible dans votre journal.
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Dear all, I was recently made aware that WHO produced a documentary film on the achievement of Ghana in establishing "the first developing country vaccine cold chain, a model then reproduced by all countries in the World" (as described by Michel Zaffran in his recent forum post on John Lloyd). The film elaborates on the activities conducted by the MOH that are described in the WHO Chronicle on the same subject written by John Lloyd and available here:
https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/376034/WHO-Chronicle-1977-31-n1-p13-18-eng.pdf
I think the film was produced in the years immediately following so would be from the late 1970s, or possibly the early 1980s. I have scoured the WHO archives and unfortunately been unable to find it. I wonder if any TechNet old-timers might have a copy of the film and be able to share it? I would be happy to assist in digitising it if necessary.
The film is of great historical significance - see the following article available on the…
Lire la suiteDear all, I was recently made aware that WHO produced a documentary film on the achievement of Ghana in establishing "the first developing country vaccine cold chain, a model then reproduced by all countries in the World" (as described by Michel Zaffran in his recent forum post on John Lloyd). The film elaborates on the activities conducted by the MOH that are described in the WHO Chronicle on the same subject written by John Lloyd and available here:
https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/376034/WHO-Chronicle-1977-31-n1-p13-18-eng.pdf
I think the film was produced in the years immediately following so would be from the late 1970s, or possibly the early 1980s. I have scoured the WHO archives and unfortunately been unable to find it. I wonder if any TechNet old-timers might have a copy of the film and be able to share it? I would be happy to assist in digitising it if necessary.
The film is of great historical significance - see the following article available on the VaccinesWork website for context:
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/vaccine-cold-chain-history
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3 May 2024, Vol. 99, No. 18, pp. 203–224 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 203 WHO position paper on dengue vaccines – May 2024 3 mai 2024, Vol. 99, No. 18, pp. 203-224 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 203 Note de synthèse: position de l’OMS sur les vaccins contre la dengue – mai 2024 Down...Publication en cours de modérationStatut publié avec succès. Il est désormais visible dans votre journal.
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Interesting article on the history of the cold chain...Publication en cours de modérationStatut publié avec succès. Il est désormais visible dans votre journal.
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As the World is about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Expanded Programme on Immunization, we must remember and pay tribute to one of its most important actors, our mentor and friend, John Seton Lloyd, who just passed away.
John was the architect of the vaccine cold chain.
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In 1976, he started working at the World Health Organization and designed with Ghana Health authorities, the first developing country vaccine cold chain. A model then reproduced by all countries in the World.
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John convinced several companies to design and manufacturer equipment needed by the EPI: Cold boxes, vaccines carriers, multi-energy refrigerators, ice lined refrigerators solar powered refrigerators, auto disable syringes. All this equipment designed with his inputs was then produced and sold in massive quantities by firms that have probably made fortunes. John never thought of his personal interest. All the equipment that is now used in immunization programmes is formally prequalified by…
Lire la suiteAs the World is about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Expanded Programme on Immunization, we must remember and pay tribute to one of its most important actors, our mentor and friend, John Seton Lloyd, who just passed away.
John was the architect of the vaccine cold chain.
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In 1976, he started working at the World Health Organization and designed with Ghana Health authorities, the first developing country vaccine cold chain. A model then reproduced by all countries in the World.
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John convinced several companies to design and manufacturer equipment needed by the EPI: Cold boxes, vaccines carriers, multi-energy refrigerators, ice lined refrigerators solar powered refrigerators, auto disable syringes. All this equipment designed with his inputs was then produced and sold in massive quantities by firms that have probably made fortunes. John never thought of his personal interest. All the equipment that is now used in immunization programmes is formally prequalified by World Health Organization through a procedure that John also conceived.
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John Lloyd was a critical contributor to the design and now widespread use of the Vaccine Vial Monitors a heat sensitive label that is affixed on all vaccines procured by UNICEF and and warns the health worker wether a vaccine vial has been exposed to an amount of heat likely to have degraded it.
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John Lloyd launched Technet which then became Technet-21.
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John Lloyd played a critical role in the Kick Polio out of Africa initiative launched in the mid 1990's at the time of the Football African Cup of Nations.
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John designed the Immunization Systems Strengthening performance based reward scheme of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance as well as many of the first tools for countries to apply for support. He was also an instrumental part in the design of a tool called the DataQualityAudit which enabled GAVI to verify the reports issued by countries.
Without John’s tireless focus on Cold chain and logistics, the backbone of immunization programmes, vaccines would never have be delivered in the right quantities, at the right time, in the right conditions to safely immunize hundreds of millions of children that have been protected from killer diseases since John Lloyd started to work in this field in 1976.
John Lloyd is one of these unsung Heroes of Public Health who was never in the news. He has remained discrete, silent and humble and never stopped being innovative, creative and committed.
Global Public Health and Immunization have lost a mentor and a friend.
I personnally owe to John to have brought me into WHO and the extraordinary world of EPI and Logistics. I simply owe him my whole carreer.
My thoughts are with Anne, his spouse and Cressie and Zoe his daughters, his grand children and their families.
Thank you John and Goodbye 👋
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19 April 2024, Vol. 99, No. 16, pp. 185–192 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 185 Summary report of the 24th and 25th meetings of the WHO Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research 19 avril 2024, Vol. 99, No. 16, pp. 185-192 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 179 Groupe consultatif stratég...Publication en cours de modérationStatut publié avec succès. Il est désormais visible dans votre journal.
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19 April 2024, Vol. 99, No. 16, pp. 185–192 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 185 Summary report of the 24th and 25th meetings of the WHO Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research 19 avril 2024, Vol. 99, No. 16, pp. 185-192 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 179 Groupe consultatif stratég...Publication en cours de modérationStatut publié avec succès. Il est désormais visible dans votre journal.