Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning Website

Developed by PATH and Stanford University, the AIM website features modules on four immunization topics: introducing hepatitis B vaccine, introducing Japanese encephalitis vaccine, immunization financing, and an Excel tutorial. Three new modules are in development and are expected to be released in late 2008. These will address meningitis A vaccine, rotavirus vaccine, and a strategic planning for measles control (including the World Health Organization's measles strategic planning tool). An updated Japanese encephalitis module will also be available in late 2008. The website is designed for use in low-bandwidth settings, and the content is also available on CD-ROM.

Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning Website: Hepatitis B

The AIM e-Learning tool is designed to provide comprehensive information to support immunization program managers at all stages of country-level decision-making. This module will help senior policymakers understand hepatitis B and how immunization programs can decrease hepatitis B virus infection. It also provides information on how to add hepatitis B vaccine to an immunization program and how to manage the addition of a new vaccine.

Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning Website: Japanese Encephalitis

The AIM e-Learning tool is designed to provide comprehensive information to support immunization program managers at all stages of country-level decision-making. This module will help senior policymakers understand Japanese encephalitis (JE) and how immunization programs can decrease JE infection among people. It also provides information on how to add JE vaccine to an immunization program and how to manage the addition of a new vaccine.

Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning Website: Meningitis

The AIM e-Learning tool is designed to provide comprehensive information to support immunization program managers at all stages of country-level decision-making. This module provides comprehensive information on meningococcal meningitis from basic disease characteristics through immunization session planning.

Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning Website: Rotavirus

The AIM e-Learning tool is designed to provide comprehensive information to support immunization program managers at all stages of country-level decision-making. This module provides comprehensive information from basic rotavirus disease characteristics through immunization session planning for rotavirus vaccine introduction.

Childhood Immunization: What You Need to Know - A Handbook for Health Workers and Parents

Cold Chain Equipment Manager (CCEM)

The Cold Chain Equipment Manager (CCEM) is a Microsoft Access–based software tool. It is accompanied by a user manual, data collection questionnaires, a surveyor’s guide to these questionnaires, and an equipment identification guide. CCEM also comes with practice files, providing new users with practice data to demonstrate how CCEM will analyze cold chain equipment data and facilitate multiyear equipment planning. CCEM version 2.1 will be available for download and on CD in September 2010; email publications@path.org to request a copy. For more information, please see the CCEM project description.

Cold Chain Technologies

Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the current project on cold chain technologies at PATH.

Common Virus and Senseless Killer: A Briefing Paper on Rotavirus

This briefing paper underscores the burden of rotavirus and highlights the promise of vaccines to combat the virus as the global health community prepares for worldwide introduction.  

Development of a Freeze-Stable Formulation for Vaccines Containing Aluminum Salt Adjuvants

This article was published in Vaccine, Volume 27, Issue 1, Jones Braun L, Tyagi A, Perkins S, et al, Development of a freeze-stable formulation for vaccines containing aluminum salt adjuvants, pp. 72-79, Copyright Elsevier (2009). The journal may be accessed at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0264410X. 

Directions in Global Health (Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2004)

The September 2004 issue of PATH's programmatic newsletter focuses on five projects: PATH's Children's Vaccine Program, which is strengthening immunization in Senegal, Cambodia, and India; evaluation of the SolarChill refrigerator, which is using solar power to fuel the cold chain; our cervical cancer work in Kenya and Peru, as part of the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention; the Program for Advancement of Commercial Technology--Child and Reproductive Health (PACT-CRH), which is transferring health technologies to India's private sector; and results from three evaluations of clean home delivery kits used in Nepal and Tanzania.

Directions in Global Health (Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

This special issue of Directions in Global Health highlights PATH's vaccine partnership efforts: PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), pneumococcal vaccine development project, Meningitis Vaccine Project, cervical cancer vaccine project, and Rotavirus Vaccine Program. The issue also features a case study of the vaccine vial monitor.

Directions in Global Health (Volume 4, Issue 3, January 2008)

This issue of Directions in Global Health profiles five aspects of PATH's work: our regional efforts to control tuberculosis, the development of and new applications for the Uniject device, a study evaluating storage of hepatitis B vaccine outside of the cold chain, promotion of condom use among young people, and PATH's procurement team.

Directions in Global Health (Volume 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

This issue of Directions in Global Health profiles our effort to expand access to safe water, particularly in India; a project to improve nutrition for infants and young children; our thermostable vaccine work; surveillance activities for Japanese encephalitis; and our work under the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.

Directions in Global Health (Volume 6, Issue 3, December 2009)

This issue of Directions features PATH’s work to optimize vaccine supply systems, advance development of malaria vaccine candidates, prevent postpartum hemorrhage to save mothers’ lives, address health needs in Tanzania, and use monitoring and evaluation systems to further PATH’s mission. It also highlights two prestigious awards that PATH recently received.

Disposable-Syringe Jet Injection

Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work on designing the next generation of jet injectors.

Effects of Freezing on Vaccine Potency: Literature Review

This document is part of a series that describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides tools to reduce freezing in the cold chain. The materials contain current WHO-recommended freeze-prevention strategies targeted toward all levels of storage and transport of vaccines.

Evaluation of Out-of-the-cold-chain Approaches for Improving On-time Delivery of the Hepatitis B Birth Dose in Rural Areas of China

This document summarizes the results of a study of out-of-the-cold-chain approaches for improving on-time delivery of birth doses of the hepatitis B vaccine in rural areas of China.

Evidence of Vaccine Freezing in the Cold Chain

This document is part of a series that describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides tools to reduce freezing in the cold chain. The materials contain current WHO-recommended freeze-prevention strategies targeted toward all levels of storage and transport of vaccines.

Final Report: Cold Chain Workshop

This document provides a final report, including summary and recommendations, on a regional workshop to discuss cold chain management issues, particularly regarding their impact on vaccine availability and effectiveness. The workshop was organized by PATH and UNICEF's Regional Office for Latin America & the Caribbean; it was held May 31 through June 2, 2006, in Panama City.

Giving Safe Injections: Using Auto-Disable Syringes for Immunization

Has Your Vaccine Been Damaged by Freezing? Shake Test Instructions

Poster describing how to conduct the shake test to determine whether a vaccine has been frozen. This document is part of a series that describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides tools to reduce freezing in the cold chain. The materials contain current WHO-recommended freeze-prevention strategies targeted toward all levels of storage and transport of vaccines.

Has Your Vaccine Been Damaged by Freezing? Shake Test Instructions for Uniject

Poster describing how to conduct the shake test to determine whether a vaccine in Uniject has been frozen. This document is part of a series that describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides tools to reduce freezing in the cold chain. The materials contain current WHO-recommended freeze-prevention strategies targeted toward all levels of storage and transport of vaccines.

A HealthTech Historical Profile: Technologies for Injection Safety

This document provides an historical overview of PATH's work on technologies for injection safety.

A HealthTech Historical Profile: The Uniject Device

Historical profile on the PATH development and advancement of the Uniject device.