IVAC [International Vaccine Access Center] [to 23 April 2016]
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Dose Per Container Partnership (DPCP) Launched
IVAC is pleased to become a member of JSI Research and Training Institute’s Dose Per Container Partnership (DPCP) . Three members of the IVAC/Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, including Bruce Lee, Lois Privor-Dumm and Dan Salmon are now providing their expertise to an issue that has been an important concern for the team over the past several years. Projects leading up and contributing to this initiative included the Primary Container Roundtable, HERMES modeling efforts and work around vaccine safety and confidence. The aim of the partnership is to use Dose per Container (DPC) information to support vaccine product and program decision making in order to optimize high, equitable, timely, safe and cost-effective coverage. This work will involve documentation of current policies and processes in combination with studies that document the programmatic implications of vaccine presentation. Programmatic implications of DCP, which include cost, cost per dose delivered (including wastage), equitable and timely coverage, compliance with the multi-dose vial policy, healthcare worker perceptions, safety and missed opportunities, will be assessed in country so that the evidence case for sometimes complex decisions can be supported through a better understanding of the relationship between DPC and the various immunization and health system variables. Tools will be developed and data disseminated to help countries make better decisions about the key trade-offs between cost and health impact.