The logistics of vaccines - INTL

Mina Kanashiro, MSF supply quality control manager, explains the logistical steps necessary for a vaccine to reach our projects and those who need it most.

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World Immunization Week is celebrated in the last week of April (24 to 30 April) and aims at reinforcing the importance of vaccination worldwide. In a moment when all the world waits for the development of a vaccine against the new coronavirus, we prepared a small package with two videos remembering why it is so important not to forget the many diseases that already have prevention tools but keep killing thousands of people every year.

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The logistics of vaccines - ENG

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Date taken / Date Recorded 22/04/2020 12:00 AM

Country Brazil

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Photographer / videographer / producer Mariana Abdalla

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Additional Information / Shotlist Mina Kanashiro
MSF supply quality control manager

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For a vaccine to reach a project, there’s a whole series of steps.

It's not just taking a box of vaccines, putting it in the post and then it arrives.

I wish it was that easy.

The project issues a request saying:
"We need this quantity of vaccines," then the warehouse receives the order, collects the vaccines, checks they are within the accepted expiry date, since there are limits,

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and checks all documentation – and there may be times when we're out of stock.

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Once the vaccines are ready for shipping, we need to contact the country to ask: "Is the shipment approved?"

There’s also the issue of vaccines kept in refrigerated containers.

They require a lot of care.

Once the medical staff on the ground receive the vaccines, they are responsible for storing, distributing and delivering them.