Keeping heat-sensitive vaccines and other drugs at the right temperature is crucial yet often difficult in areas with limited or no electrical power. This fact sheet describes a response to this challenge, where a group of public- and private-sector partners, working with project Optimize, evaluated a range of transportation and storage containers for heat-sensitive drugs and vaccines that operate in environments with or without access to reliable power in Africa and Asia.

Author(s): PATH, World Health Organization

Published: 2012

Resource types: PATH resource; Fact sheet

Diseases: Not disease/vaccine specific

Topics: Cold chain logistics and technologies

Regions: Africa; Asia