Briefings
Field notes and short dispatches on interoperability, policy, and practice.
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Briefing: Specify the Reader, Not Just the Logger
A temperature monitor only protects vaccine if its alarm reaches someone empowered to act. A short procurement reminder.
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Briefing: Why Field Water Filters Fail — and the Step Programs Skip
Most field filtration failures trace to skipped pre-treatment and absent maintenance, not to defective membranes.
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Briefing: A Practical Trigger for pfhrp2/3 Deletion Surveys
Negative malaria RDTs in microscopy-positive patients are the field signal that should prompt a deletion survey before a test switch.
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Briefing: Freezing, Not Heat, Is the Cold Chain’s Quiet Failure
Accidental freezing damages freeze-sensitive vaccines while the temperature log still reads ‘in range.’ A reminder on conditioning and indicators.
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Briefing: Controlled Temperature Chain — Promise and Limits
CTC lets qualified vaccines leave 2–8 °C for a defined window. It is powerful for last-mile campaigns—and available only for a few products.
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Briefing: The PQS Catalogue and What Prequalification Does and Doesn’t Promise
WHO prequalification screens cold-chain hardware for performance and safety—but procurement still has to match the device to the site.