*SAFE INJECTION GLOBAL NETWORK* SIGNPOST *SAFE INJECTION GLOBAL NETWORK* EXTRA! Post00504 SIGN Meeting 2009 + PQS Meeting 20 July 2009 CONTENTS 1. SIGN Meeting 2009 First Announcement 2. PQS (performance Quality and Safety) consultative meeting with the industry, back to back with the SIGN meeting - 3rd and 4th December 2009 This edition of SIGNpost is located at: http://uqconnect.net/signfiles/Archives/SIGN-POST00504.txt and is printer friendly. Subscribe or un-subscribe by email to: sign@uq.net.au, sign@who.int More information follows at the end of this SIGNpost! __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Moderator's note: We are posting these two meeting announcements again - as some subscribers did not receive the original postings sent during the recent listserve problems. Thanks for your patience. best wishes, allan __________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________*____________________________________ 1. SIGN Meeting 2009 First Announcement Selma Khamassi, SIGN Secretariat/WHO, kindly posts this first notice of the 2009 SIGN annual meeting. __________________________________________________________________________ SIGN Meeting 2009 First Announcement Dear SIGN partners I am happy to announce the dates and venue for the 2009 SIGN annual meeting which coincides this year with SIGN's 10th anniversary. This year the meeting will be held where SIGN started ten years ago, in Geneva at WHO/HQ. It will be held from Monday 30 November to Wednesday 2 December. The SIGN meeting will be followed on 3 December by a WHO and UNICEF meeting with our partners from industry as suggested during last year's meeting. 10 years! While celebrating the event we will take the opportunity to review what SIGN has achieved since its launch in the area of injection safety and progressively in related infection control. This is just the first announcement to make sure you book the dates on your agendas. More information will follow soon. In the meantime and if you have any enquiries , please send an email to sign@who.int copy to matovuj@who.int With very best regards Selma Khamassi SIGN Secretariat ________________________________ Dr Selma Khamassi, MD, MSc Injection Safety & Related Infection Control Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN) Secretariat HSS/EHT/DIM World Health Organization 20 Appia Avenue -CH 1211 Geneva 27 -Switzerland Office M 22 Tel: +4122 7913431 Fax: +4122 79148 36 Email: khamassis@who.int Website: http://www.who.int/injection_safety/en/ __________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________*____________________________________ 2. PQS (performance Quality and Safety) consultative meeting with the industry, back to back with the SIGN meeting - 3rd and 4th December 2009 Denis Maire, WHO, posts this advance notice of the PQS meeting. THE PQS meeting will be held at WHO/HQ on 3rd and 4th December 2009. __________________________________________________________________________ From: "Maire, Denis Georges" To: Subject: PQS (performance Quality and Safety) consultative meeting with the industry, back to back with the SIGN meeting - 3rd and 4th December 2009 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 Dear Moderator, I am pleased to announce that the WHO Quality Safety and Standard Unit of the Immunization Vaccine and Biologicals Department is organizing the PQS (performance Quality and Safety) consultative meeting with the industry on 3rd and 4th December 2009. This meeting will be back to back with the SIGN meeting in the WHO premises in Geneva. It is planned to have the first day addressing general prequalification matters with all partners (including WHO, UNICEF, PATH, Optimize and the industry), while the second day will focus on the prequalification of devices to ensure the safety of injections. The objectives of this meeting will be on the Thursday 3rd to: 1. Provide updates on the prequalification process of equipment and devices 2. Review the recent changes in performance specifications and verification protocols 3. Present the new PQS interactive web based database 4. Discuss the future prequalification challenges to best respond to the need of introducing innovative technologies= On the Friday 4th December: 1. Discuss the way prequalification of devices contributes to ensuring the safety of injections in immunization as well as in curative settings 2. Discuss and agree on a way forward to better prevent reuse and make injection safer Please note that an individual invitation will be sent shortly to all partners and separately from the one of SIGN. However, if you are interested in participating in that meeting, you are welcome to already contact us at the PQS secretariat. With best regards, Mr Denis Maire Quality, Safety and Standards Immunization, Vaccines & Biologicals World Health Organization Room M115, 20 Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva, Switzerland Tel: +41 22 791 5882 Fax: + 41 22 791 4384 Mobile: +41 796340096 Email: maired@who.int __________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________*____________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ * SAFETY OF INJECTIONS brief yourself at: www.injectionsafety.org A fact sheet on injection safety is available at: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs231/en/index.html * Visit the WHO injection safety website and the SIGN Alliance Secretariat at: http://www.who.int/injection_safety/en/ Download the latest injection safety Best Practices review at: http://www.uqconnect.net/signfiles/Files/BestPracticesJul2003.pdf Use the Toolbox at: http://www.who.int/injection_safety/toolbox/en/ Subscribe or un-subscribe by email to: sign@uq.net.au, sign@who.int or on subscribe online at: http://www.who.int/injection_safety/sign/en/ Get SIGN files on the web at: http://www.uqconnect.net/signfiles/Files/ get SIGNpost archives at: http://www.uqconnect.net/signfiles/Archives/?M=D The SIGN Secretariat, the Department of Essential Health Technologies, WHO, Avenue Appia 20, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Telephone: +41 22 791 3680, Facsimile: +41 22 791 4836, E- mail: sign@who.int _____________________________________*____________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ SIGN meets annually to aid collaboration and synergy among SIGN network participants worldwide. The 2008 SIGN annual meeting was held from 13 to 15 October 2008, in Moscow, Russia. Get the final report of the SIGN Meeting 2008, Moscow, Russian Federation [2.36Mb] at: http://www.who.int/injection_safety/2008MeetingReport.pdf Many SIGN files can be opened in Acrobat Reader. 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