Journal of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Disease Control, Institute of Public Health, Alexander Moisiu Str. 80, Tirana, Albania

Biography

Silva Bino, MD, Ph.D, is the Head of the Control of Infectious Diseases Department of the Institute of Public Health and an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine, Tirana University, Albania. She was the Director of National Public Health Institute from 2000-2006, and has devoted her career to novel strategies to control infectious diseases and strengthen surveillance systems in resource poor countries.She earned her medical and doctoral degrees from Tirana University and followed with postgraduate training on infectious diseases, microbiology, epidemiology and public health in Switzerland, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the USA

Publications

• Review   
  Vaccine Vial Monitor Based Vaccine Management: An Albania Experience
  Author(s): Umit Kartoglu*, Erida Nelaj, Iria Preza and Silva Bino
  
  Vaccine vial monitor (VVM) stands out amongst all the temperature monitoring devices and tools, as the only one that has shaped the course of vaccine management practices as well as the vaccine cold chain. Some critical vaccine management approaches that are practiced today, such as multi-dose vial policy, and controlled temperature chain have only been made possible with the help of VVM, and others such as rotating stocks and dispatches have been made more effective. Using the Albania immunization programme as a case, this paper reviews the vaccine management practices from the VVM perspective... View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2376-0419.20.7.207

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