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- 2022
A ‘Learning Collective Initiative’ has been established under the CoVDP to provide targeted support to 34 concerted support countries. This workstream will collect, consolidate, and share...
- 2022
This page provides a package of tools and guidance to support programmes and partners to assess and address behavioural and social drivers (BeSD) of vaccination. The content and guidance on this page...
- 2020
A fully functional cold chain system must be available in country to ensure the uninterrupted availability of quality vaccines to service-delivery levels. Cold chain equipment is therefore of...
- 2018
The controlled temperature chain (CTC) is an approach to vaccine management that provides a short-term option for certain designated vaccines allowing them to be kept at temperatures outside of the...
- 2020
WHO, UNICEF, Gavi and partners are working together to help prepare countries to be ready to introduce a COVID-19 vaccine. Adaptable guidance, tools, trainings, and advocacy materials are available...
- 2021
Since Covid-19 vaccines have been rolled out at record speed in most countries in the world this year, immunization programmes quickly have had to adapt or develop monitoring systems and tools....
- 2021
The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’s Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) workstream, Project ECHO, Boost, TechNet-21, and the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project are organising a series of...
- 2021
Vaccine vial labels and packaging provide important information for healthcare workers, giving them confidence in how to administer a vaccine, and that it is safe and has maintained its potency....
- 2020
New vaccine compositions, formulations and combinations have greatly advanced in recent decades. Presently, vaccines are available against 25 diseases, and 12 vaccines are now included in the...
- 2022
Increasing and sustaining vaccination uptake is vital for vaccines to achieve their success. Achieving high vaccination coverage requires an understanding of the drivers of immunization uptake,...
- 2021
This webinar series presents the leading eLMIS software and service options that are currently deployed in the field. It also explores how to prepare for a deployment and the essential steps in...
- 2019
The widespread use of multi-dose vaccine containers in low- and middle-income countries’ immunization programs is assumed to offer benefits and efficiencies for health systems, such as reducing...
- 2020
Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) is a national EPI planning process endorsed and supported by WHO and UNICEF to assess and prioritize improvements in the immunization supply chain. EVM is embedded...
- 2022
Welcome to the EYE-LABS website!
EYE-LABS is a platform where all activities and resources linked to World Health Organization (WHO)-coordinated yellow fever (YF) testing laboratory activities are...
- 2018
This page features background information and guidance on freeze prevention in the immunization supply chain, also known as the cold chain, as it relates to passive containers. Section 1 provides a...
- 2022
The global COVID-19 vaccination rollout is the biggest and fastest in history and no public health intervention compares to it. Under extraordinary time constraints and severe programmatic...
- 2021
The Global Vaccine and Immunization Research Forum (GVIRF) is the central discussion platform of all research and innovation aspects related to the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030)....
- 2023
Countries now have access to an unprecedented wave of new vaccine presentation and product options and alternative schedules, with more options in the pipeline. This expanding landscape provides an...
- 2020
As the global healthcare system expands, including the increasing success of immunization efforts, this inevitably leads to a growing amount of healthcare waste (HCW). Certain types of HCW can pose...
- 2017
A home-based record is a health document on which an individual’s history of health services received is recorded. It is maintained in the household by an individual or their caregiver in either...
- 2019
To support national introduction of HPV vaccine, the immunization partners have developed a toolbox to serve as a reference for all aspects of HPV vaccine introduction (decision-making, Gavi...
- 2020
Photo credit: WHO (1), WHO (2), UNICEF (3)
Health systems can only function with health workers. Health workforce must be prioritized for universal health coverage to be achieved. The...
- 2019
The use of high-quality data is widely understood in the global health community to be a cornerstone of well-functioning health systems. However, despite continuous growth in the amount of health...
- 2023
Forecasting and supply planning are the initial processes in the continuum of supply chain management operations aimed at predicting the demand for products and determining when, where and how much...
- 2020
This page provides a list of key immunization supply chain (ISC) planning tools created by the WHO Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). In addition, a list of core reference material...
- 2023
Global chronic health worker shortages and stagnating routine immunization rates require new strategies to increase vaccination coverage and equity. Research has demonstrated that task shifting,...
- 2023
The Immunization Agenda 2030 aims to ensure that all people benefit from recommended immunizations throughout the life course, integrated with essential health services. Although there has been...
- 2021
Third edition, June 2018
Introduction
The primary objective of this manual is to provide a resource for the global network of laboratories that supports the surveillance for cases of measles,...
- 2020
A World Health Organization (WHO) initiative, Market Information for Access to Vaccines (MI4A), has been launched to contribute to the achievement of Strategic Development Goal 3.8 (Universal Health...
- 2021
As countries conduct mini COVID-19 vaccine Post-Introduction Evaluation (mini-cPIE), also called the COVID-19 Vaccination Intra-Action Review (IAR), to review and adjust their COVID-19 vaccine...
- 2019
A missed opportunity for vaccination (MOV) refers to any contact with health services by a child or adult who is eligible for vaccination, which does not result in the person receiving one or more of...
- 2021
WHO and partners have worked together to develop a framework to support countries in strategy development. The National Immunization Strategy (NIS) guidelines, published in August 2021...
- 2022
This page provides all the latest guidance and support documents for the development of a National Immunization Strategy (NVS) available in English. The page will be updated regularly. Please contact...
- 2017
A national logistics working group (NLWG) is a mechanism for coordinating national immunization supply chain and logistics activities, as well as investments made by government agencies and...
- 2021
COVID-19 vaccination is one of the world’s fastest and most massively deployed public health interventions in history. To this effect, country readiness is key for smooth deployment of adequate...
- 2013
Project Optimize was a unique five-year collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) and PATH to identify ways in which supply chains can be optimized to meet the demands of an...
- 2022
A new mechanism is being established under Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) to identify regional and country priorities for vaccine research and development (R&D). These priorities will inform...
- 2022
Cette page fournit tous les derniers documents d'orientation et de support pour le développement d’une Stratégie Nationale de Vaccination (SNV) disponibles en français. La page sera...
- 2023
This support package contains complementary materials. It has been designed to support countries develop and implement COVID-19 vaccine integration in alignment with the global WHO - UNICEF guidance....
- 2016
Vaccination is one of the most reliable and affordable interventions with the potential to reduce child deaths.
In order to be an efficient solution, one of the main prerequisites is to maintain the...
- 2021
This webinar series explores the different technologies that are available for active temperature monitoring of your cold chain. Practical experiences from countries using 30-day temperature...
- 2019
Routine immunizations and new vaccine introductions are two of the best investments to improving people’s health around the globe. While the world has made incredible progress in providing...
- 2021
This page contains a list of publications about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on national immunization programmes and the measures that have been taken to control it. It is divided into the...
- 2017
The primary objective of a vaccination coverage survey is to provide a coverage estimate for selected vaccines. This page provides a list of documents related to the design, implementation, analysis,...
- 2020
VVMs (Vaccine Vial Monitors) are small indicators that adhere to vaccine vials and change color as the vaccine is exposed to cumulative heat, letting health workers know whether the vaccine has...
- 2021
Supporting countries to reduce the urgent risk of falsified and diverted health products in national supply chains with a vision toward national traceability of all vaccines, medicines, and health...
- 2021
The WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) and WHO Health Emergency programme (WHE) are partnering with Project ECHO of the University of New Mexico (UNM) to host a series...