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Editorial Note
Issue 58 covers responses to the OPTIMIZE postings, an announcement regarding the new members and the agenda of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee, and the monthly Global Immunization News and the Polio Situation Report. |
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Philippines has 17 regional cold rooms, and all the cold rooms in the country, including the national store, have computerized temperature monitoring systems.
The features of the computerized temperature monitoring system in Philippines are:
- Each cold room is monitored with at least 4 sensors located on the shelves where the vaccine is stored. Additionally, one sensor monitors thermostat and another the ambient temperature. The difference in temperature inside the cold room is normally about 2-3 degrees C between the hottest point and the coldest point. This difference could be fatal for hepB vaccine if the cold room thermostat is installed at the hottest point AND the set temperature is programmed at 2 degrees C, which could lead to temperatures in the cold spots dropping below 0 Degrees C. ...
- Fourteen cold rooms are connected to a phone line-based autodialer and, at 4 locations, GSM based autodialers have been installed. These dialers send SMS (Text) messages on every power failure and power restore situation, along with a phone call in case an alarm has been triggered by the logger.
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We need to develop systems that will look at wastage rates in relation to the coverage and make informed analysis and decision on whether what obtains is near reality in the field. I believe the DVD-MT provides this unique opportunity of monitoring vaccination coverage vs wastage rates, supplies and utilization in addition to adequacy and stock levels. This will help to identify areas where utilization is poor and the relationship between supplies, coverage, wastage and supply adequacy and inform on decision for supportive supervision which should bring out issues being masked due to analysis of only one set of data (either coverage or wastage rates).
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WHO/IVB is very pleased to announce the members of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC):
Chair:
Shelley DEEKS – Medical Epidemiologist – Ontario Agency for Health Protection & Promotion
Robin BIELLIK: Medical Epidemiologist currently based in Switzerland
Xavier BOSCH-CAPBLANCH: Medical doctor – Swiss Centre for International Health / Swiss Tropical Institute
Francois GASSE: Private Consultant
Najwa KHURI-BULOS: Adjunct Professor – Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and Professor of Paediatrics and Infectious Disease, Jordan University Medical School and Hospital, Amman
Folake KIO-OLAYINKA: Maternal Child Health Programme Manager – USAID, Abuja, Nigeria
Sanath LAMABADUSURIYA: Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine – University of Colombo
Jules MILLOGO: Private Consultant
Pieter NEELS: Federal Agency for Medicinal and Health Products, Brussels
Robert STEINGLASS: Immunization Team Leader, Maternal & Child Health Integrated Program, and Project Director, Africa Routine Immunization System Essentials – John Snow Inc, Virginia
Pierre VAN DAMME: Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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World Health Assembly endorses Strategic Plan:
The World Health Assembly (WHA) has welcomed the new Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Strategic Plan 2010-2012, which directly addresses the remaining barriers to eradicating polio, using a combination of new geographic- and population-specific approaches to reach chronically missed children. The WHA noted the significant progress already achieved as a result of the new Plan, in particular in the traditional reservoirs of northern Nigeria and northern India, both of which are recording record-low levels of the disease. The WHA also expressed serious concern that insufficient financing for the new Plan is compromising its full implementation, as US$1.3 billion is still needed for 2010-2012. The dangers of not completing the job of polio eradication, the WHA said, were underscored by the confirmation in April of a large new polio outbreak following an importation into Tajikistan, in the WHO European Region that had been certified as polio-free in 2002. For more information, click here.
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This issue includes the resolutions of the World Health Assembly, commemoration of thirty years of smallpox eradication, updates on revision of technical specifications of yellow fever vaccine, regional updates and the latest calendar of immunization events and conferences.
Those who want to contribute to the next issue should email sparrowe@who.int by noon, Friday 25 June 2010.
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