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Thank you for sharing this concept. Strengthening collaboration between human and animal health systems is essential for improving vaccine cold chain management in LMICs and regions facing instability an approach fully aligned with the One Health vision. Shared logistics can make a real difference. Many health teams cannot reach remote or insecure areas, but coordinated transport, storage and information-sharing allow both human and animal health services to extend their reach to vulnerable communities. This gap is especially clear in unstable regions where humanitarian providers often focus only on human health. Livestock keepers may need vaccines for their animals but cannot access them. A collaborative One Health oriented system would enable efficient delivery of both human and animal vaccines to those who rely on them. The WHO recommendations could be a barrier to this integrated system. Revisiting these policies could open the door to more resilient, inclusive, and cost-effective vaccine delivery for all.

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It would be great for Bangladesh if the vaccines can be delivered maintaining the cold chain using the public health infrastructures. People from remote areas cannot think of doing animal vaccinations as they need to go to specific veterinary hospitals far from their houses, which also incurs a varying amount of costs to the owners. Great initiative. Hope it can be achieved through One Health.

I found this blog incredibly useful, especially the detailed examples of how coordinated cold chain systems can support both public and veterinary health services. It really shows how One Health collaborations can create real impact on the ground. I’m curious — what do you think are the biggest challenges countries face in scaling up these integrated approaches?

Thanks so much Jim for endorsing the concept of a One Health approach to vaccine cold chains and for sharing your excellent example of One Health in action.

Very good read. While wantok in Port Moresby has negative connotations, it is also (not always) a positive concept at the local level, and can and has been leveraged in ways similar to those proposed here. In that vein, two other overlooked experiences to review are the anti-corruption alliance of the late 2000s, and the use of DSIP-SIP guidelines which (although not uniformly across districts) have been successfully used in courts' adjudication of misappropriations since the early 2010s.

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A very timely and well-balanced analysis. Guinea clearly sits at the crossroads of opportunity and significant risk, where governance and mining revenues increasingly shape outcomes. The Australia–Guinea connection is more than a matter of shared geology. It is a measure of how responsibly both countries and their partners manage resource relationships in ways that strengthen institutions, protect civic space and ensure that mineral wealth contributes to long-term, inclusive development rather than instability.

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Speaking from the human public health part of the One Health team, I heartily endorse the ideas in this post. Pragmatic sharing of resources benefits us all. In fact, my first introduction to One Health thinking was a related idea: years ago, I was working at provincial level in central Mozambique. We human health workers had a very successful programme of childhood vaccination, but human rabies vaccine was costly and beyond our reach. We were seeing a number of preventable human rabies cases every year, often where a dog foraging in the forest came home infected and bit its owner. On the other hand, our veterinary colleagues had an African-made canine vaccine but no community connections. The answer was for us to invite our community contacts to a vaccination day, but asking them to bring their dogs instead of their children. The idea was well received, many dogs were vaccinated, and the following year there were no human cases in the province.

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Hi Natasha, thank you for the insightful progress report for the Pacific Engagement Visa 2024 cohorts. I have a question in regards to Settlement Supports like access to Australia’s universal health care system Medicare, education, cost of raising a family like Family Tax Benefit (FTB) A and B. How long does it take for a PEV holder recently relocated to Australia to access these Settlements Supports?