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technet21 postspacerProgress Towards a Heat and Freeze-Stable Hepatitis B Vaccine

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technet21 postspacerHalf of India's Children are not Immunized
Issue 15, 10 August 2009

 
Editorial Note

Debra Kristensen updates us on research on a new hepatitis B vaccine that is less cold-chain dependent. Tasnim Partapuri looks forward to TechNet21 readers sharing information on integrated health outreach activities in relation to immunization. Also included in this issue are the latest Global Immunization News and news items from VaccineIndia.

You can also keep pace with the responses to the Optimize posts on delivering OPV safely without icepacks and the new generation batteries for solar refrigeration, and the discussion on investing in new vaccines.

Thank you for the congratulatory messages.


 by Debra Kristensen

In partnership with Arecor and the University of Colorado Denver School of Pharmacy, PATH published findings in this month's issue of Human Vaccines that describe a new hepatitis B vaccine formulation exhibiting nine week stability at 55ºC and at least six month stability at both 37ºC and 45ºC. The data indicate that the new hepatitis B vaccine formulation will be better able to withstand disruption in the cold chain and could potentially be stored at controlled room temperature for a significant part of its shelf-life.

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 by Tasnim Partapuri

We are reviewing literature and experience on integrated outreach with a specific focus on routine immunization plus other health services, primarily in developing countries. We aim to find out:
   • what has been tried or is currently being carried out
   • how (planning and implementation)
   • where and by whom (location, funding, human resources implications)
   • what looks promising, what are the lessons learned

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Topics covered in this issue include immunization data, polio eradication, maternal and neonatal tetanus, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines and a country-wise round up of immunization activities.

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Only 54.1 per cent of India's children are fully immunized. The other half -- this includes the 11.3 per cent who never received any form of vaccination -- run the risk of disease as they have failed to complete even the basic immunization schedule.

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