Methods to increase temperature stability of vaccines and adjuvants are needed to reduce dependence on cold chain storage.
These improvements were noticed for cold chain storage at regional, district and health center levels, and during the transport legs that were part of the demonstration conducted in the regions of Kasserine in the South-Eastern part of Tunisia.
This discrepancy could be due to additional programmatic costs (cold chain storage, shipping costs, etc).
UNICEF hands over new cold chain storage facility to Myanmar Ministry of Health YANGON, 12 August 2008 - UNICEF and WHO handed over a new cold chain facility to the Myanmar Ministry of Health today.
It needs to be emphasized that misoprostol does not have the same requirements as oxytocin for cold chain storage, sterile equipment, and personnel skilled in parenteral administration.
Moreover, oxytocins are injectable uterotonics, unstable at high temperatures, and requiring cold chain storage and skills that birth attendants, who do not practice AMTSL, might not possess (4).
All respondents in both countries agreed that an LAI with no cold chain storage requirements was essential to ensure that a product could feasibly reach more users.
While new aerosol formulations of oxytocin are being developed that do not require skilled health workers for administration or cold chain storage, these products remain in development.
Developing heat-stable formulations, for example, may eliminate or reduce the need for cold chain storage and enable broader use, especially for home births [ 7].
In addition to a prophylactic response, DNA vaccines can also be therapeutic, are inexpensive to manufacture, and do not require cold chain storage.
