This section of the landscape analysis facilitated by Project Optimize highlights ongoing work and critical gaps related to human resources. As human resource policies provide immunization supply systems with adequate numbers of competent, motivated, and empowered personnel at all levels of the health system, they are essential to overcome existing... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This fact sheet describes a selection of solar energy solutions being developed by the WHO and PATH to solve storage and transportation challenges in areas what have unreliable or unavailable power sources.... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain
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Language: English
This fact sheet describes a selection of solar energy solutions being developed by the WHO and PATH to solve storage and transportation challenges in areas what have unreliable or unavailable power sources.... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain
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Language: French
This document presents 12 core indicators for monitoring and evaluating procurement and supply management (PSM) at the national level. Six of the 12 indicators are defined as early-warning indicators of stock-outs and overstocking of medicines, which, in this document, are antiretroviral agents (ARVs) and medicines to treat tuberculosis and malaria.... Read more
Author: World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: M&E, Procurement
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Language: English
These WHO guidelines set out the principal requirements for the safe storage and distribution of time and temperature-sensative pharmaceutical products (TTSPPs). The target audience includes regulators, logisticians, and pharmaceutical professionals in industry, government, and international agencies. WHO Technical Report Series, No.961, 2011, Annex 9... Read more
Author: World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain, Storage and distribution
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Language: English
This fact sheet briefly describes innovations in cold chain storage and transport for vaccines, and describes how they are currently being used in Vietnam, Tunisia, and Senegal.... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain
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Language: French
This fact sheet briefly describes innovations in cold chain storage and transport for vaccines, and describes how they are currently being used in Vietnam, Tunisia, and Senegal.... Read more
Author: Paul Marsden, Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain
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Language: English
This report outlines the results of a study commissioned by project Optimize in Tunisia, which evaluated 5 potential solutions for controlled room temperature (CRT) storage. Cost and energy efficiency were criteria for assessment.... Read more
Author: John Lloyd, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Steve McCarney, World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain
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Language: English
This report outlines the results of a study commissioned by project Optimize in Tunisia, which evaluated 5 potential solutions for controlled room temperature (CRT) storage. Cost and energy efficiency were criteria for assessment.... Read more
Author: John Lloyd, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Steve McCarney, World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain
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Language: French
