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Editorial Note
Issue 46 includes an update on the UNDP-GEF (Global Environment Facility) project on healthcare waste management. Additionally, Tasnim Partapuri shares research papers on immunization coverage and Mojtaba Haghgou comments on the Optimize post on Tunisia and innovative supply chain solutions.
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The UNDP GEF Project on Healthcare Waste Management is excited to share its first project update report (in English, French, and Spanish). The goal of the project is to demonstrate best environmental practices and best available techniques for healthcare waste management to avoid dioxin and mercury releases in eight countries: Argentina, India, Latvia, Lebanon, Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam. The project facilitates the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
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Part I in a series of research papers on immunization coverage culled from PubMed Central, the free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
The first lot of titles include the following:
- Increasing the demand for childhood vaccination in developing countries: a systematic review by Beverley Shea, Neil Andersson, David Henry
- The fallacy of coverage: uncovering disparities to improve immunization rates through evidence. Results from the Canadian International Immunization Initiative Phase 2 – Operational Research Grants by Sharmila L Mhatre, Anne-Marie Schryer-Roy
- The role of supportive supervision on immunization program outcome – a randomized field trial from Georgia by Mamuka Djibuti, George Gotsadze1, Akaki Zoidze, George Mataradze, Laura C Esmail, Jillian Clare Kohler
- Global immunization status: progress, challenges and future by Philippe Duclos, Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Marta Gacic-Dobo, Thomas Cherian
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The article provided good news and both EMRO and Project Optimize should be congratulated for selecting Tunisia for this important activity. Having worked in Tunisia, knowing the situation and their seriousness, I am certain that the result will be significant and the finding will be replicable and useful for other countries.
I am also pleased to understand that the role of the private sector in supply chain has been considered. However, in my opinion, the increasing role of the private sector in providing immunization services should also be included into the project. Tunisia has a strong pediatric association and, undoubtedly, they provide a big chunk of immunization, particularly in large urban areas. The recent experience in Syria showed the importance of this sector in regard to vaccination programs. Tunisia is not an exception. Private sectors providing immunization services are increasing in Iran, Egypt, and the Gulf Countries and to a smaller extent in Pakistan too.
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 Photo Courtesy: Mojtaba Haghgou
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