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Introduce New Vaccines But What About Accessibility to Older Essential Vaccines?

Multiple Injections on the Same Day

Disposal of Pre-Filled Glass Syringes?

Issue 3, 18 May 2009

Editorial Note

Omesh Bharti's post on new versus essential vaccines has seen a fair exchange of observations. A consensus has been reached that both new and essential vaccines need to be delivered. Lora Shimp reinforces this view and shares with the community a presentation on how to handle communications and advocacy for new vaccines.

Jhilmil Bahl poses a question to the community regarding increasing the number of injections given at each immunization contact. A question that is extremely relevant in the context of the introduction of the new pneumococcal, rotavirus, HPV and other vaccines into immunization programmes. Tasnim Partapuri responds to the query, sharing documents, including a Handbook for Medical Officers handling new vaccines.

Toryalai Hart poses a question with regard to the plans for the disposal of the waste that delivery of these new vaccines is going to produce.

And, especially for TechNet21 readers, the Web Highlights include an update on Swine Flu, culling material from various sources.

Introduce New Vaccines But What About Accessibility to
Older Essential Vaccines?
by Omesh Bharti

With regard to Post 01424E, it should not be an 'either/or', but rather how to "introduce new vaccines while ensuring and sustaining availability and financing of older essential vaccines as well as new vaccines."

For many countries, the challenge is twofold:
• To increase or sustain financing for current vaccines within their health budgets, and
• To advocate and ensure long-term financing for the more expensive, newer vaccines (and programme operations and cold chain costs), particularly as GAVI funds phase out. [Read more]

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Multiple Injections On The Same Day
by Jhilmil Bahl

Giving multiple (or simultaneous) injections–is that a problem for health staff? Would they hesitate to do this? How can the health workers be trained to give more than one injection? What are the key messages for parents? Any advice/experiences will be helpful, as we are now preparing materials for the introduction of new vaccines.
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Disposal Of Pre-Filled Glass Syringes?
by Toryalai Hart

With the advent of the new pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines packaged in single dose pre-filled glass syringes, we are likely to be facing a complication in waste management. This may be a transitory trend for many of the new vaccines in the future, which means that infrastructure (programmatic and technological) needs to be thought up and disseminated as part of national and programme health care waste management plans. [Read more]

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	Web Highlights:
		New 'H1N1 Flu Resource Centre'
		Swine Flu Update

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