250,000 HITS/ FREE CHAMPAGNE FOR ONE CLEVER READER

Saturday, 9th of June 2012

QUERY TO READERS

This webpage went over the quarter million mark at 11.00 GMT today, Sunday, 10 June.

To celebrate, I am offering one bottle of French champagne (or other favorite libation, for the abstemious ) to the reader who can name one child survival intervention not currently being implemented in most developing countries.

I will not consider as prize winners any of the following, all of them popular.

Breast feeding
Vaccination
LLINs/Residual spraying/malaria chemoprophylaxis (IPTi, IPTp, IPTc)
Vitamin A
Prenatal services
Anthelminthics, Praziquantel
Nutrition monitoring
Training and Fielding of Community Health Workers
Child Health & Nutrition Days
Onchocerciasis elimination/dracunculiasis eradication
IMNCI, including ORT and community treatment of pneumonia
Directly Observed Therapy, Short Course
Condoms/male circumcision/abstinence/reduction in multiple partners/HAART
Delayed clamping of the umbilical cord
Raising taxes on tobacco
Zinc supplementation

Your entries to rdavis@africamail.com

Good luck, and may the best outlier win.

BD

FIRST QUARTER MILLION HITS

In the 18 months from late December 2010 to 10 June 2012, this site has had 250,000 hits. As so often happens, a minority of the items posted get the lion’s share of the reader’s hits. The 62 items listed below got over 1000 hits each, accounting for 83,000 of the total hits. Among these, four topics -- measles, with 15 articles, polio, with 14, malaria, with 7, and new and under-used vaccines, with 3 -- accounted for over half the total.

‘Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.’ – Sir Francis Bacon

Good reading.

1. CSU 4/2011: SELF LEARNING COURSES IN PUBLIC HEALTH	2227
2. POLIO COMPARED TO MEASLES	2137
3. SEASONALITY AND THE PERSISTENCE AND INVASION OF MEASLES	2096
4. COCHRANE REVIEW: THE IMPACT OF USER FEES ON ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES -- A COCHRANE REVIEW	2083
5. EQUALITY OF ACCESS FOR MEASLES VACCINATION/ AEROSOL VACCINATION AGAINST MEASLES	2055
6. CSU 71/2010: NEW VACCINES FOR TUBERCULOSIS	2045
7. GLOBAL MEASLES UPDATE	2039
8. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEKEND: CDC MALARIA POSITIONS, PREDICTORS OF CHILD SURVIVAL, SIMPLIFIED ARV DELIVERY MODELS, USE OF LAY PERSONNEL FOR ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION	1705
9. CSU 25/2008: ANTIMALARIAL MONOTHERAPY IN THE MOST SEVERELY MALARIOUS PARTS OF AFRICA	1541
10. CSU 28/2008: PNEUMONIA	1487
11. TB VACCINE RESEARCH	1477
12. CSU 52/2010: FOUR ON POLIO: BILL GATES, POLIO IN TAJIKISTAN	1451
13. CSU 10/2009: ALLIANCE FOR MALARIA PREVENTION	1450
14. CSU 20/2008: TWO ON MEASLES/BOOK REVIEW/READER FEEDBACK (2)	1435
15. MEASLES REVIEW ARTICLE, MOSS & GRIFFIN	1425
16. CSU 11/2008: GATES FOUNDATION ON MALARIA ERADICATION	1421
17. CSU 18/2008: HIB VACCINATION IN UGANDA	1420
18. CSU 3/2009: VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS	1419
19. CSU 33/2008: BCG AND LEPROSY PROTECTION	1406
20. CSU 36/2008: THE CASE FOR UNIVERSAL HEP B VACCINATION	1406
21. CSU 27/2010: POLIO ERADICATION WITHIN FIVE YEARS	1405
22. CSU 48/2008: PERSISTENCE OF HEP B PROTECTION IN VACCINEES AFTER 15 YEARS	1404
23. CSU 24/2008: PREVENTING CHILD MALARIA BY PROTECTING ADULTS WITH BED NETS	1394
24. 49/2008: READER FEEDBACK/SEX RATIOS IN MUMBAI	1388
25. CSU 37/2008: QUERY TO READERS/READER FEEDBACK/EPI TRAINING	1369
26. COCHRANE REVIEW:: CASH INCENTIVES FOR CHILD HEALTH	1367
27. CSU 31/2008: FUTURE GLOBAL POLICIES FOR MANAGING POLIOVIRUSES	1365
28. CSU 38/2009: HORSTMANN ON POLIO/ NATHANSON ET AL ON US POLIO SURVEILLANCE, 1956 / THE CUTTER INCIDENT	1352
29. CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 8/2009: THE FINAL PUSH TOWARDS POLIO ERADICATION	1348
30. CSU 19/2008: LIMITS AND INTENSITY OF FALCIPARUM /READER FEEDBACK	1348
31. MEASLES PRE-ELIMINATION GOAL, WHO/AFRO	1340
32. CSU 51/2008: THREE ON MALARIA	1313
33. SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH TRAINING ONLINE/ RESEARCH CAPACITY IN AFRICA	1307
34. CSU 2/2011: WHO WEBSITES/ UPDATED TOP HITS OF 2010: COCHRANE MAKES THE TOP 10	1300
35. REVIEW ON AEROSOL MEASLES VACCINES/ FEASIBILITY OF GLOBAL MEASLES ERADICATION	1290
36. MEASLES ELIMINATION IN AUSTRALIA AND 17 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES/ GENETIC DIVERSITY OF MEASLES VIRUS IN EUROPE	1285
37. CSU 16/2008: INTERVENTIONS FOR MATERNAL & CHILD UNDERNUTRITION & SURVIVAL	1280
38. WHAT'S NEW THIS SUNDAY: IS MALARIA VACCINE A MAGIC BULLET?; DISTRIBUTION OF HEALTH CARE BENEFITS IN KENYA; BOOK REVIEW, 'EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH'	1264
39. CSU 10/2008: THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF VACCINATION	1245
40. CSU 33/2007: THREE ON ERADICATION	1245
41. CSU 42/2008: PATERNAL SMOKING AND CHILD MORTALITY	1235
42. CSU 40/2008: The Social Determinants of Health/Primary Health Care, Full Circle	1223
43. FOUR IDEAS TOO CHEAP TO IMPLEMENT	1205
44. CSU 42/2009: OBAMA ON POLIO/ HOPKINS ON DRACUNCULIASIS ERADICATION	1144
45. CSU 169/2011: USE OF MASS MEDIA CAMPAIGNS TO CHANGE HEALTH BEHAVIOR	1091
46. CSU 18/2011: THE ORIGIN OF THE HAITIAN CHOLERA OUTBREAK STRAIN	1066
47. REDESIGNED VACCINATION CARDS TO REDUCE DROPOUT RATES	1061
48. CSU 4/2008: BIRTH SPACING/ MORE ON MALE CIRCUMCISION	1047
49. CSU 21/2008: CHILD SURVIVAL IN TANZANIA/QUERY TO READERS/READER FEEDBACK	1031
50. BAD PRACTICES IN MEASLES VACCINATION	1030
51. CSU 50/2009: HETEROSEXUAL RISK OF HIV-1 INFECTION PER SEXUAL ACT	1024
52. CSU 17/2008: MATERNAL AND CHILD MORTALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA	1023
53. CSU 12/2008: PROMOTING MALE CIRCUMCISION IN RWANDA	1019
54. FEASIBILITY OF MEASLES ERADICATION	1012
55. CSU 40/2009: WHEN IS A DISEASE ERADICABLE? /FIRST IN A SERIES	1011
56. CSU 2/2009: PROGRESS TOWARDS MDGs IN BANGLADESH	1011
57. MEASLES ERADICATION: 'NO' TO THE SKEPTICS	1009
58. CSU 20/2009: 1) READER COMMENT / 2) MODELING THE IMPACT OF MALE CIRCUMCISION/ CALMETTE AND GUERIN	1006
59. CSU 7/2008: LEPROSY, WHAT IS BEING ELIMINATED?	1006
60. CSU 13/2009: MALE CIRCUMCISION/ DRIVERS OF INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY / FERTILITY DECLINES AND SOCIAL SECURITY	1005
61. CSU 7/2009: QUERY TO READERS, U5MR IN THE GAMBIA	1003
62. CSU 46/2008: LANCET SERIES ON HIV PREVENTION	1001
TOTAL HITS	83597

WHERE IN THE WORLD?

Here, in declining order by frequency, are the 50 countries and territories most often consulting www.childsurvival.net . Africa predominates, with 15 countries on the list, followed by Asia, with 13. However, 6 of the top 10 countries are from the developed world.

Most of you are anglophone (84 percent), and many of you are accessing this page from the addresses of research and academic centers.