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Despite South Africa’s substantial investments in and efforts at ensuring universal access to immunisation services, progress has stalled and remains suboptimal across provinces and districts. An...
The VM1000 control unit supports:
1. A maximum of 4 wired & 4 wireless probes, or 8 probes in total
2. Power status monitoring
3. Room Temperature & Humidity Monitoring
4. Door Monitoring...
The FreezeGuard device works with any powered vaccine fridge or cold-room to detect and automatically prevent freezing events.
The Better Immunization Data Learning Network (BLN) held a webinar entitled “Introduction to OpenHIE and Interoperability for National Information Systems”. The presentation gave an introduction...
The purpose of the study was to assess whether the Road to Health Card (RTHC) was adequately completed and interpreted at primary, secondary and tertiary care levels in South Africa.
Editorial regarding update of South Africa\'s Road to Health Booklet.
This study sought to determine the challenges faced by professional nurses in monitoring the Road to Health Car (RTHC) during consultation, the degree of implementation of the RTHC programme, and the...
Letter to parents and girls to invite for HPV vaccination in schools, jointly my MOH and MOE
Registry and weekly clinic updates for HPV vaccination. ministry of health South Africa
Background: To inform national healthcare authorities whether quadrivalent influenza vaccines (QIVs) provide better value for money than trivalent influenza vaccines (TIVs), we assessed the...
Home-based record (HBR) for South Africa circa 2012 (female)
In South Africa, HPV vaccination programme has been incorporated recently in the school health system. Since doctors are the most trusted people regarding health issues in general, their knowledge...
The role of pharmacists in immunisation and vaccination varies across the world; in some countries pharmacists are primarily involved in ensuring the safe supply and ...
Despite its promise, however, the digital health landscape today is highly fragmented. The result is a myriad of digital health projects and applications that rarely reach scale and if they were to...
On Oct 10, 2015, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) rejected Pfizer\'s proposed donation of 1 million doses of its branded pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV).1 The news caused a stir in the global...
BACKGROUND:
Immunisation is the cornerstone of primary healthcare. Apart from the provision of safe water, immunisation remains the most cost-effective public health intervention currently...
Background
Significant progress has been made to increase access to vaccines in Africa since the 1974 launch of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). Successes include the introduction of...
Reliable and accurate public health information is essential for monitoring health and for evaluating and improving the delivery of health-care services and programmes.1–4 As countries report their...
Rubella is generally a mild childhood disease, but infection during early pregnancy may cause spontaneous abortion or congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), which may entail a variety of birth defects....
The international community has successfully promoted childhood vaccination as an essential public health intervention. This has been accomplished through efforts such as the World Health...
The top national Department of Health (NDoH) EPI managers resigned in August and December last year, taking with them large chunks of institutional memory and invaluable expertise. SA remains in the...
In seven southern African countries (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe), following implementation of a measles mortality reduction strategy starting in 1996,...
BCG vaccination provides incomplete protection against tuberculosis in infants. A new vaccine, modified Vaccinia Ankara virus expressing antigen 85A (MVA85A), was designed to enhance the protective...
The BLN is a platform for peer learning and information exchange intended to enable strong
collaborative links between peers from different countries in support of improved data...
In 1974, WHO established the Expanded Programme on Immunization to ensure
that all children have access to routinely recommended vaccines. Since then, global coverage with the 4 core vaccines –...
Measles vaccination increased educational attainment in this poor, largely rural community in South Africa. For every five to seven children vaccinated against measles, one additional school grade...
With few exceptions, immunization supply chains in developing countries continue to face chronic difficulties in providing uninterrupted availability of potent vaccines up to service delivery levels,...
The 11th International Rotavirus Symposium brought together over 650
people from 56 countries in New Delhi, India, from 3-5 September, 2014 to examine new surveillance data and studies demonstrating...
The BCG vaccine is often derided for the lack of efficacy in preventing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and pulmonary disease in adults. However, BCG vaccine remains a highly effective and...
Immunization research productivity in Africa is highly skewed, with private health expenditure having a significant positive association. However, the current contribution of authors from Africa to...
This report, prepared by the Secretariat for the Decade of Vaccines Global Vaccine Action Plan, serves as the basis for the independent review. As was the case in 2013 and 2014, this report reviews...
This report highlights the achievements made in expanding access to vaccines in Africa and discusses some of the remaining challenges to achieving universal access to vaccines. The timing of this...
Report that outlines the findings from the study on COVID-19 vaccine demand promotion drawing on the qualitative data gathered from Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa and South Sudan,Report that outlines...