Lessons learned from the deployment of oral cholera vaccine by maintaining the controlled temperature chain (CTC) in an urban setting, Bangladesh
Md Taufiqul Islam, Ashraful Islam Khan, Zahid Hasan Khan, Mohammad Ashraful Amin, Sabina Shahnaz, Quazi Fayeza Sultana, Md Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, Abhishek Rimal, Joanie Robertson, Anna-Lea Kahn, Firdausi Qadri · 2026
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Md Taufiqul Islam and colleagues gather lessons from a cholera vaccination drive in Dhaka, Bangladesh that let doses travel outside the deep cold chain. Their 2026 qualitative study covers the March 2024 campaign, where a controlled temperature chain permits short storage at room warmth. Standard cold chains often limit where the oral vaccine can reach during outbreaks.
Six volunteers gave in-depth interviews and four policymakers gave key-informant interviews, drawn from teams that vaccinated, supervised and kept records under both storage styles. Frontline accounts compare the freedom of ambient storage against the discipline of ice boxes. The authors distil what worked and what strained staff, offering ground-level guidance for future campaigns in crowded city settings.
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| CREATOR | Md Taufiqul Islam, Ashraful Islam Khan, Zahid Hasan Khan, Mohammad Ashraful Amin, Sabina Shahnaz, Quazi Fayeza Sultana, Md Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, Abhishek Rimal, Joanie Robertson, Anna-Lea Kahn, Firdausi Qadri |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42552 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |