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This study investigated the association between vaccine stockout and immunisation coverage, and infant/under 5 mortality rates.
Many health facilities in low- and middle-income countries lack access to reliable mains electricity, making the refrigeration of vaccines at appropriate temperatures challenging. A common solution...
What we can learn from other health areas to improve vaccine forecasts for zero-dose children.
The Forecasting and Supply Planning Assessment Tool (FSPAT) is a comprehensive assessment tool for evaluating forecasting and supply planning (FSP) from the planning to the monitoring of an...
This guidance manual provides an overview of the steps involved in assessing forecasting and supply planning (FSP) and developing an improvement plan. It also introduces UNICEF’s FSP assessment...
This guidance manual explains why it is important to consider the key activities required to initiate the operationalization of the forecast and supply plan and briefly discusses them.
This guidance manual provides an overview as to why it is important to monitor the performance of forecasting and supply planning (FSP), the steps involved in monitoring FSP performance, the key...
This guidance manual provides an overview of the steps involved in conducting a forecasting and supply planning (FSP) review.
Following the development of the forecast and supply plan using the ratified data and assumptions, the next activity is presenting results to key stakeholders. This section discusses why the...
This guidance manual provides an overview of the supply planning concept, including the steps involved in estimating and costing commodity requirements. An example illustrating how commodity...
This guidance manual provides an overview of the various forecasting methods, including the steps involved in implementing each method. Examples illustrating how each method can be applied are also...
This guidance manual provides an overview of the forecasting and supply planning (FSP) preparatory phase. It covers the key activities that should be completed, including describing the programme,...
This guidance manual provides an overview of the forecasting and supply planning (FSP) team, including the roles and responsibilities of the team, governance structure, operational procedures, and...
This guidance manual provides an overview of forecasting and supply planning (FSP). It covers the definition of FSP, vaccine FSP processes, benefits of FSP and the strategic pillars central to the...
This is an advocacy tool that intends to provide a different perspective and examples of promising practices to optimize outreach efforts.
Instructions on Gavi’s process for the renewal and multi-year approval of vaccine support
This guidance manual is developed in response to the need to strengthen national-level Forecasting and Supply Planning (FSP) processes with particular emphasis on achieving equity and reaching...
Presentation at the TechNet Conference, in 2017
As immunization programs around the world undergo rapid change and expansion, supply chain and logistics systems have become strained, making it increasingly challenging for national public health...
The efficacy of vaccines can be compromised by faulty transport, storage, and handling. This study was conducted to assess the knowledge and practice of vaccine storage and handling among Primary...
Persistent gaps in the availability of essential medicines have slowed the achievement of global health targets. Despite the supply chain knowledge and expertise that ministries of health might glean...
At the end of 2013, the Government of Benin and Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP) launched a demonstration project in Comé Health Zone (HZ) to optimize the vaccine supply chain. A key part of...
Vaccination is one of the most effective ways to prevent and/or control the outbreak of infectious diseases. This medical intervention also brings about many logistical questions. In the past years,...
This journal article presents key findings from a survey of 43 countries about the status of NLWGs. The study was conducted by the WHO-UNICEF Immunization Supply Chain Hub.
In 1985, the Rockefeller Foundation published Good health at low cost to discuss why some countries or regions achieve better health and social outcomes than do others at a similar level of income...
This study captures the perspectives of stakeholders at multiple levels of the vaccine supply chain regarding their assessment of challenges with storing vaccines within recommended temperature...
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and in 2012 was suffering some of the lowest vaccination rates in the World. A combination of factors had resulted in a dysfunctional immunization cold...
Job aid on how to verify the expiration date of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent (Original and Omicron BA.4/BA.5) using based on the manufacturing date printed on the primary and secondary...
Immunization programs are implemented according to the Expended Program of Immunization (EPI) in the WHO member countries. The cold-chain component of the program is just as important as the...
An actionable guide to processes and standards for cold chain stakeholders. This document provides guidance and rationale for key stakeholders throughout the cold chain (such as EPI managers, cold...
VillageReach worked with partners – William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI) and University of Washington (UW) – to adapt and create “light touch” tools that allow users...
Effective functioning of Cold Chain Equipment is an essential prerequisite for Immunization program. Cold Chain Technicians (CCT)are the major force that keeps the equipment running and repair them...
This report details the danger of freezing vaccine as illustrated by epidemics of whooping cough among children who have received the pertussis vaccine. One factor contributing to the delivery of...
This project Optimize document summarizes a laboratory report on performance testing of four models of domestic refrigerators that are available on the Tunisian market. Project Optimize contracted...
Effective immunization supply chain (iSC) is crucial for safe and timely transport of potent vaccines to the beneficiary.
India’s iSC, with a network of ~29,000 cold chain points (CCP), measures...
Health supply chains in low-income countries have improved markedly thanks to major investments in recent years. Yet the failure to finance last-mile delivery too often prevents products from...
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To study the impact of the use of cool water packs (water packs refrigerated at 2 to 8 degrees C) on the cold life of vaccine transport boxes and the shelf life of the...
A framework for public health SC strengthening that takes the user through a step by step approach for developing, implementing and monitoring a comprehensive supply chain strategy and implementation...
Because new EPI liquid vaccines are highly sensitive to freezing and overheating, close monitoring of the cold chain is mandatory. The new Testostore 171-1 electronic thermometer (Testo) provides...
As more low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) explore opportunities to improve efficiency and performance in their public health supply chains and diagnostics networks, they face myriad choices...
The primary objectives of this document are to provide a step-by-step approach of a successful acquisition/introduction of solar cold chain equipment for vaccines management, and to share the lessons...
Vaccine exposure to temperatures below recommended ranges in the cold chain may decrease vaccine potency of freeze-sensitive vaccines leading to a loss of vaccine investments and potentially places...
The medicines refrigerator is a common piece of equipment found in clinical areas. It is used to ensure specific medicines are safely stored within a narrow temperature range in line with...
An apparatus permitting the combustion of large (2 g) polymer samples at high temperature is described. Effluents from combustion are collected in cold traps (liquid nitrogen) and on glass wool for...
The website aims to serve as a central knowledge repository for projects with healthcare waste components in developing countries.