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Country innovations: Fixing the basics by strengthening vaccine
management policies and practices
TechNet Conference 2015: Managing the supply chain (1 of 3)
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...
This is a report on managing waste safely and appropriately to minimize risks of infection and injury in Myanmar. It summarizes the current Healthcare Waste Management system, and talks about project...
In Myanmar, UNICEF is supporting the Ministry of Health and Sports (MoHS) in their efforts to improve supply chain performance by strengthening the collection, sharing and use of supply chain data at...
More than 300 million people who live in rural areas of the Mekong region are among the most at-risk for Japanese encephalitis (JE) infection due to changes in the Mekong region’s ecological...
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...
The approach to review interagency collaboration in medicines supply chain examined the subject in the context of current literature and evidence in effective collaboration. As such, it did not focus...
An estimated 2.7 million children die annually from vaccine-preventable diseases.1 Immunization is one of the most effective existing strategies for preventing illness in children and it is widely...
This report presents poliovirus surveillance data from 2014 and 2015, focusing on the 20 countries in the African Region and six in the Eastern Mediterranean Region that reported a WPV or circulating...
In 2015, wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission was identified only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The widespread use of live, attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) has been crucial in polio eradication...
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...