Augmenting Transport versus Increasing Cold Storage to Improve Vaccine Supply Chains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Haidari, Leila A ^a   Connor, Diana L ^a   Wateska, Angela R ^a   Brown, Shawn T ^b   Mueller, Leslie E ^a   Norman, Bryan A ^c   Schmitz, Michelle M ^a   Paul, Proma ^a   Rajgopal, Jayant ^c   Welling, Joel S ^b   Leonard, Jim ^b   Chen, Sheng I ^c   Lee, Bruce Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG STORAGE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NIGER; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

CRYOPRESERVATION; NIGER; TRANSPORTATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84878048582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064303     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Kaufmann JR, Miller R, Cheyne J, (2011) Vaccine supply chains need to be better funded and strengthened, or lives will be at risk. Health Aff (Millwood) 30: 1113-1121.
2. WHO (2010) EVM Assistant Tool.
3. PATH (2012) CCEM 2.
4. Isselmou BO (2011) UNICEF and government of Japan boost 'cold chain' for immunization in Mauritania. UNICEF. Nouakchott, Mauritania.
5. Rinzin YC (2012) 16 kerosene coolers for 'power'less BHUs. Kuensel Online. Phuentsholing, Bhutan: Kuensel Corporation.
6. Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (2011) Impact of new vaccine introduction on developing country immunization programs: a review of the grey literature. USAID Bureau for Global Health.
7. Humphreys G, (2011) Vaccination: rattling the supply chain. Bull World Health Organ 89: 324-325.
8. de Oliveria LH, Danovaro-Holliday MC, Matus CR, Andrus JK, (2008) Rotavirus vaccine introduction in the Americas: progress and lessons learned. Expert Rev Vaccines 7: 345-353.
9. Assi TM, Brown ST, Djibo A, Norman BA, Rajgopal J, et al. (2011) Impact of changing the measles vaccine vial size on Niger's vaccine supply chain: a computational model. BMC Public Health 11: 425.
10. Lee BY, Assi TM, Rajgopal J, Norman BA, Chen SI, et al. (2012 Feb) Impact of introducing the pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines into the routine immunization program in Niger. Am J Public Health 102: 269-276.
11. Lee BY, Cakouros BE, Assi TM, Connor DL, Welling J, et al. (2012) The impact of making vaccines thermostable in Niger's vaccine supply chain. Vaccine.
12. GAVI Alliance (2012) Niger country hub.
13. WHO (2010) Immunization profile- Niger.
14. WHO (2010) WHO prequalified vaccines.
15. WHO (2009) Vaccine volume calculator.
16. WHO (2011) Niger comprehensive multiyear plan 2011-2015.
17. Assi TM, Rookkapan K, Rajgopal J, Sornsrivichai V, Brown ST, et al. (2012) How influenza vaccination policy may affect vaccine logistics. Vaccine 30: 4517-4523.
18. Lee BY, Assi TM, Rookkapan K, Connor DL, Rajgopal J, et al. (2011) Replacing the measles ten-dose vaccine presentation with the single-dose presentation in Thailand. Vaccine 29: 3811-3817.
19. Lee BY, Assi TM, Rookkapan K, Wateska AR, Rajgopal J, et al. (2011) Maintaining vaccine delivery following the introduction of the rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines in Thailand. PLoS One 6: e24673.
20. TransAid (2012) TransAid- transport for life.
21. Riders for Health (2012) What Riders for Health does.
22. VillageReach (2012) VillageReach: last mile challenges.
23. Lee BY, (2008) Digital decision making: computer models and antibiotic prescribing in the twenty-first century. Clin Infect Dis 46: 1139-1141.
24. Lee BY, Biggerstaff BJ, (2006) Screening the United States blood supply for West Nile Virus: a question of blood, dollars, and sense. PLoS Med 3: 168-169.
25. Lee BY, Wiringa AE, (2011) The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic: a case study of how modeling can assist all stages of vaccine decision-making. Hum Vaccines 7: 115-119.