Adding a Vaccine to the Schedule
How a new vaccine gets added to a national childhood schedule: the advisory committee, the cost per dose, cold chain capacity, and a community health worker on the first month of giving it.
Deciding Which District Gets the Nets First
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Deciding Which District Gets the Nets First
A national bed net distribution has to start somewhere. Kwabena sits with the programme manager who built the sequence and a district nurse who was in the third wave, to show how the decision was made and received.
- The data used: case rates, rainfall, past coverage and road access
- Why the poorest district was not first, and the reasoning behind it
- The logistics of 2 million nets, warehouses and the rainy season
- A nurse on explaining the wait to a community that had seen the news
- What the evaluation found and what changed for the next round
Next episode: how a vaccination schedule gets a new vaccine added to it.
Transcript
Good day and welcome to The Clinic and the Ministry. I am Dr Kwabena Osei-Bonsu, and I have worked at both ends of this show's title, first in a district and later in a ministry programme. Today we look at a question that sounds small and is not. When a country distributes 2 million bed nets against malaria, which district gets them first? Someone has to decide, and the decision has consequences. I am joined by the programme manager who built that sequence, using case rates, rainfall, road access and past coverage, and by a district nurse who was in the third wave and had to explain the wait to families who had already seen the campaign on television. We will go through the reasoning, the logistics and the evaluation afterwards. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.
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