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With this commentary, we discuss experiences from Nepal, Senegal and Liberia in addressing COVID-related disruptions of RI services in early-2020 to mid-2020. We represent a range of stakeholders...
UTILISATION D’UNE APPROCHE SANS INCINÉRATION POUR LA GESTION DES DÉCHETS CONTAMINÉS (OBJETS POINTUS ET TRANCHANTS) GÉNÉRÉS PAR LA VACCINATION CONTRE LA COVID-19 DANS LA VALLÉE DE KATMANDOU
UTILISATION D’UNE APPROCHE SANS INCINÉRATION POUR LA GESTION DES DÉCHETS CONTAMINÉS (OBJETS POINTUS ET TRANCHANTS) GÉNÉRÉS PAR LA VACCINATION CONTRE LA COVID-19 DANS LA VALLÉE DE KATMANDOU
SAFE MANAGEMENT OF THE HAZARDOUS WASTE GENERATED AND STORED AS RESIDUAL WASTE IN THE VACCINE CENTERS OF KATHMANDU VALLEY DURING COVID-19 VACCINATION CAMPAIGN
Innovations en matière de chaîne du froid - enseignements tirés des évaluations sur le terrain de la protection contre le gel et de la collecte d'énergie
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Freeze preventive vaccine carriers are now available to protect freeze-sensitive vaccines during transport. This session will share experiences, challenges and learnings from a field trial in Nepal...
Preventing vaccine freezing is one of the biggest challenges in vaccine management. Until 2018, vaccine carriers used in the immunization program lacked features to prevent vaccine freezing....
This publication offers a glimpse of the chequered journey of the ‘Network’, a public health infrastructure set up with the aim of supporting polio eradication activities in the five...
What does it take to keep vaccines from freezing during last mile transport? This 4-minute video summarizes PATH and B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences’ work to evaluate the performance of...
A call for Nepal to relaunch routine immunization programs [after suspension early in the pandemic] and maintain essential maternal and child health care services.
Freeze preventive vaccine carriers are now available to protect freeze-sensitive vaccines during transport. This session will share experiences, challenges and learnings from a field trial in Nepal...
Preventing vaccine freezing is one of the biggest barriers in vaccine management. Toward addressing this challenge, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan, Nepal, in collaboration with...
This poster was used in Nepal at health facilities and vaccination sessions to demonstrate the importance of using child health cards, also known as home-based record
This home-based records briefer was included in rotavirus vaccine introduction materials developed for health workers in Nepal by JSI through the Coordination and Implementation of Child Health...
This job aid was developed to help frontline health workers in Nepal to understand the importance of the home-based record form and how to use this tool during their regular immunization activities....
Home-based records (HBRs), known as child health cards in Nepal, are a key data collection and monitoring tool to ensure that children receive life-saving vaccinations.
BACKGROUND: The potential to strengthen routine immunization (RI) services through supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) is an important benefit of global measles and rubella elimination and...
Home-based record (HBR) for Nepal circa 2010 (certificate)
This analysis describes an innovative and successful approach to risk identification and mitigation in relation to the switch from trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV) in the 11 countries...
From 21 to 24 February 2017, 25 participants from Ministries of Health, National Statistics Offices and research institutes from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Nepal and Thailand, plus World Health...
Introduction
National immunization systems are important for reducing vaccine preventable diseases.1 However, in many resource-constrained countries, such systems need to be improved. This paper...
Improving water and sanitation is the preferred choice for cholera control in the long-term. Nevertheless, vaccination is an available too l that has been shown to be a cost‒effective option for...
In 2012, the Global Vaccine Action Plan* established a goal to achieve measles and rubella elimination in five of the six World Health Organization (WHO) regions (194 countries) by 2020 (1). Measles...
Cholera is transmitted through the fecal-oral route, and humans are the natural host. It is caused by the ingestion of O1 and less commonly O139 serogroups of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium and...
BACKGROUND:
Immunization is one of the most effective health interventions averting an estimated 2-3 million deaths every year. In Nepal, as in most low-income countries, infants are immunized with...
This report describes key achievements of USAID-funded logistics projects, managed by John Snow, Inc. (JSI), to improve access to medicines and medical supplies for the population of Nepal.
A brief presentation on how GIS technologies can be used in immunization information systems for improved programme management. Some of the key applications of the technology within the programme...
In 2013, during its 66th session, the Regional Committee of the WHO SouthEast Asia Region (SEAR) established a goal to eliminate measles and control rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) by...
Immunization programs currently measure coverage by assessing the proportion of children 12–24 months who have been immunized but this does not address the important question of when the scheduled...
Poorly managed AEFI undermine immunization programs. Improved surveillance in SEAR countries means more AEFIs but management varies. SEAR brought countries together to share AEFI experiences, and...
The purpose of this guide is to give step-by-step instruction on how to develop a case study and/or human interest story about a vaccine introduction.
An overview of the implementation of LMIS systems in Nepal through PROJECT DELIVER.
Summary box
Key message 1: As the COVID-19 pandemic affected routine immunisation services worldwide, country programmes have used a range of mitigation strategies to maintain vaccine delivery...
How the Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) assessment tool was used to improve immunization supply chains in Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria and Syria
Activities conducted for collection and disposal of sharp waste in Kathmandu valley
Safe Management of Waste generated during the evacuation of 175 Nepalese students from Wuhan, China during the COVID-19 pandemic
This case study from Nepal describes a pilot study carried out to collect and transport large quantities of vaccine waste from COVID-19 vaccination sites in the Kathmandu valley to secure storage and...