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CSU 171/2011: DOES IMPROVING MATERNAL KNOWLEDGE OF ...

‘A simple educational intervention designed for low-literate populations, improved DPT-3/Hepatitis B vaccine completion rates by 39%. These findings have important implications for improving routine immunization rates in Pakistan.’ ... read more

CSU 173/2011: GOOD GOVERNANCE AND NEW VACCINE INTR ...

 I found this article the same week that I read about Merck's donation of HPV vaccine to Rwanda, the first country in central Africa to introduce HPV on a nationwide scale. Rwanda was also the first country in central Africa to introduce pneumoc ... read more

BILL GATES ON THE DECADE OF VACCINES

Here are Bill Gates's remarks on the Decade of Vaccines, given at the World Health Assembly in Geneva last week. Speech to the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly 17 May 2011 Mr. President, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Director-General Dr. Margar ... read more

CHILDHOOD VACCINATION IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS, NAI ...

‘Multivariate analysis showed that household assets and expenditure, ethnicity, place of delivery, mother's level of education, age and parity were all predictors of full vaccination among children living in the slums.’ The electronic ve ... read more

VACCINES AGAINST CANCER: THE GAVI VIEW

VACCINES AGAINST CANCER: THE GAVI VIEW While hep B vaccine is now given in almost all countries, HPV is given, to my knowledge, only in one African country. Will the London pledging conference of 13 June find funds for HPV?Good reading. BD   ... read more

thurs VACCINE PRICE CUTS ANNOUNCED BY WESTERN AND ...

This Bloomberg News item on price cuts to GAVI and to 'graduating GAVI' countries. In terms of current GAVI expenditure, the cuts in the cost of pentavalent are most important. Will HPV, as well as pneumo and rotavirus vaccines, now become affordable ... read more

TWO ON INTERNATIONAL VACCINE PRICING

TWO ON VACCINE PRICING 1)      UNICEF’s recent publication of vaccine prices paid to individual manufacturers, accessible at http://www.unicef.org/supply/index_57476.html , is a step forward in transparency in vaccine ... read more

VACCINE PRICE CUTS ANNOUNCED BY WESTERN AND INDIAN ...

This Bloomberg News item on price cuts to GAVI and to 'graduating GAVI' countries. In terms of current GAVI expenditure, the cuts in the cost of pentavalent are most important. Will HPV, as well as pneumo and rotavirus vaccines, now become affordable ... read more