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This article originally appeared in The Telegraph. Below is an excerpt.  Vaccines are often temperature sensitive, with inoculations for diseases including hepatitis, typhoid and polio sensitive to both high and low temperatures. This presents a major challenge for health workers dispensing vaccines across the world, particularly in areas with limited or unreliable electricity supplies. But Sure Chill, a British technology and … Read More

LNCT Updates Materials from 2019 LNCT Network-wide Meeting Now Available Earlier this month, the Learning Network for Countries in Transition (LNCT), in partnership with the Indonesian Ministry of Health, Gavi, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, held its third network-wide meeting in Tangerang, Indonesia. The meeting brought together country delegates from 14 of the … Read More

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) has just been launched. The course has been developed in collaboration between the UNICEF HSS unit (Programme Division) and the Learning and Knowledge Exchange Unit (Division of Analysis, Planning and Monitoring), in partnership with the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of … Read More

During our regional vaccine procurement workshop, which took place in Tbilisi, Georgia in April 2019, we sat down with a few participants to hear about their experiences related to topics ranging from vaccine forecasting, vaccine budgeting, and vaccine regulatory issues. This interview (first in a series of 4) is with Dilorom Tursunova, Deputy Chief of the … Read More

LNCT Updates Materials from European Regional Vaccine Procurement Workshop Now Available Last month, the Learning Network for Countries in Transition (LNCT) and the UNICEF Vaccine Procurement Practitioners Network (VPPN) co-hosted their first regional procurement workshop in Tbilisi, Georgia. LNCT members Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Uzbekistan joined fellow VPPN members North Macedonia and Serbia for three days of … Read More

“Draft Zero” of the Immunization Agenda 2030, is aimed at setting a new vision and strategy for vaccines and immunization for the next decade (2021-2030). The draft document is a step along the way in co-creating the future of immunization together – one that reflects the collective inputs of many people, coming from different organizations including from governments, communities, … Read More

In May 2018, ThinkWell released findings from a systematic review of the evidence base on immunization delivery costs (IDC) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The review aimed to answer a question frequently asked by global and country immunization stakeholders: What are the unit costs of vaccine delivery across different LMICs and through a variety … Read More