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Editorial Note
Mojtaba Haghgou and Souleymane Kone send us the latest information on the Vaccination Supplies Stock Management tool (VVSM), which users at three levels can log into; enables working in six UN languages; and can produce over 40 different reports.
Rudi Eggers posts an invitation from TLAC for two new graphic "visual cues" for use on vaccine vials to guide health workers to implement MDVP. The deadline is 26 June 2009.
Osman Mansoor shares the recommendations on presentation and packaging of new vaccines for use by public sector programmes in developing countries. The document is open for consultation.
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The Vaccination Supplies Stock Management (VSSM) tool was first developed in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) in late 2006. ... VSSM has been used in Sudan and Egypt, and recently was installed in Laos, Iran, Uzbekistan and now Pakistan. VSSM version 4.0 is now fully operational and plans are afoot to install it in Mongolia with support from UNICEF.
VSSM is an open source, MS Access-based computer application and needs only MS Office 2003 or 2007; it requires no specific hardware. It has a multi-level security system and allows three different levels of logging in.
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Solicitation of Visual Cues for Vaccine Discard
by Rudolf Richard Eggers
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On behalf of the chair of the Technologies and Logistics Advisory Committee (http://www.who.int/immunization_delivery/systems_policy/tlac/en/index.html) of WHO, Bruce Weniger, we are seeking ideas from the TechNet21 community for two new graphic "visual cues" for use on vaccine vials to guide health workers for when they must discard vaccines once opened, and which can safely be kept for subsequent sessions.
WHO's current Multi-Dose Vial Policy (MDVP, http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/DocsPDF99/www9924.pdf), last revised in 2000, is being updated to accommodate a variety of new vaccine formulations that will reach the market before long. Some of these will render obsolete common rules of thumb based on whether the products are liquid or lyophilized and will undermine old presumptions on whether or not they contain antimicrobial preservatives.
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VPPAG is currently consulting on a paper on the generic Preferred Product Profile (gPPP) for new vaccines used by national programmes in developing countries.
The document is open for consultation until July 15th.
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