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e-VVM Based Vaccine Management Course
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Ümit Kartoglu
Julie Milstien
Ticky Raubenheimer
Denis Maire
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A year in the life of a vaccine
Kevin O’Donnell reviews the role of VVM and how it can be the answer to increase access and ensure quality of vaccine was not compromised due to unacceptable heat exposure.
Kevin O’Donnell
Cold chain challenges everywhere
Simona Zipursky reviews the cold chain challenges to demonstrate that problems are both in developing and industrialized countries and questions whether VVM should also be the answer for both.
Simona Zipursky
Exploitation of stability data to reach the unreached
Umit Kartoglu presents the critical aspect of exploitation of stability data to reach the unreached through overview of studies taking vaccines beyond the 8 deg C all published in peer-review journals as well as a new concept of cool water packs by the WHO and Vaccine Vial Monitors. As he indicates that vaccines have become more stable and there is a clear prospect of increased or even complete heat stability, and concludes that in these circumstances the dogmatic approach to the cold chain causes resources to be wasted and places unnecessary restrictions on field operations.
Umit Kartoglu
Five senses: Vaccine Vial Monitors
A movie, produced for the 10th year anniversary of the introduction of vaccine vial monitors (VVM). The movie focuses on how this simple tool expands the horizon of the immunization programme and empowers health workers serving people at the very periphery of the health system. The theme and the goal are specific but there are scenes, human conditions, different livings for everybody to see and think about them. Shot in Niger, Vietnam and Indonesia in 2007.
World Health Organization
How does a VVM work?
Denis Maire summarizes the technical characteristics of VVMs and explains how they work.
Denis Maire
Interpretation of VVM in relation to other temperature monitoring devices
Umit Kartoglu reviews temperature monitoring devices used in a typical vaccine cold chain and analyses how the readings relate to each other when there are more than one device at a particular point. This analysis is done from the VVM perspective.
Umit Kartoglu
Last Mile
Umit Kartoglu reviews the critical last mile between the service point and the end user. He further discusses the best solutions for storage and transport of products and best practices for temperature monitoring.
Umit Kartoglu
Using VVM as a stock management tool
Umit Kartoglu reviews the requirements for product arrival, storage and dispatch and analyses the role of VVM in effective stock management for each step. Special emphasis is given to the relation of VVM and expiry date in illustrating how VVM over-rules earliest expiry first out principle.
Umit Kartoglu
Vaccines beyond the cold chain
Simona Zipursky reviews the studies on taking vaccines beyond the cold chain all published in peer-review journals and comments on how VVMs could be instrumental in these operations.
Simona Zipursky
VVMs getting smarter
Umit Kartoglu reviews the recent changes in integrity and location of VVMs and the new message VVM is giving whether a vial containing multi-dose vaccine following opening can be kept for a subsequent session or not.
Umit Kartoglu
VVM use at the most periphery
Serge Ganivet reviews the VVM use at the most periphery through different examples and brings new perspectives on how to make best decisions based on the expiry and VVM readings.
Serge Ganivet