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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1496</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A STUDY OF MEASLES VACCINE STORAGE CONDITIONS AT BELLARY DISTRICT&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Karinagannanavar</surname><given-names>Aravind</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Raghavendra</surname><given-names>Bellara</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Khan</surname><given-names>Wahid</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Hiregoudar</surname><given-names>Vandana</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Goud</surname><given-names>T. Gangadhara</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>22</day><month>03</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume/><issue/><fpage>101</fpage><lpage>104</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: The vaccine must be stored at refrigerator temperature 2o__ampersandsignndash;8oC. Reconstituted vaccine should be used immediately. There would be loss of potency and complications such as Toxic shock syndrome if used beyond 6 hours of reconstitution.The weakest chain is Primary health Centres and Subcenters. WHO recommends that nothing should be stored in refrigerator other than vaccines but it hardly happens. Objective: To assess the storage conditions of measles vaccine at all the PHC__ampersandsignrsquo;s of Bellary District. Material and Methods: A Cross sectional study was conducted from May 2010 to April 2011 at areas covered by 53 PHC/PHU of Bellary district. The data was collected by using pretested semi structured questionnaire. Results: All the PHC__ampersandsignrsquo;s/PHU__ampersandsignrsquo;s had maintained temperature 2-80c and had temperature monitoring twice daily for measles vaccine. But only 26 PHC__ampersandsignrsquo;s had maintained temperature book till date. 30 PHC__ampersandsignrsquo;s/PHU__ampersandsignrsquo;s had proper placement of measles vaccine. Conclusion: All the PHC__ampersandsignrsquo;s/PHU__ampersandsignrsquo;s had maintained the vaccine at proper temperature but proper location of the measles was not satisfactory.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Measles vaccine</kwd><kwd> Storage condition</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
