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GAVI BOARD DECISIONS ON HPV, RUBELLA AND MEASLES

Thanks to reader Alan Hinman for providing this Q and A from the GAVI Alliance on decisions made at its most recent Board meeting, recently concluded in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Good news for all except the viruses.Good reading.BD Q&A: New V ... read more

GFATM CANCELS ROUND 11 FUNDING

  GAVI funding has seen no recent shortfalls; recent cuts to GF funding, by contrast, place ARV availability at risk. GFATM CANCELS ROUND 11 FUNDING        Also at http://www.itpcglobal.org/index.php ... read more

VACCINATION SCHEDULES, NORTH AND SOUTH

VACCINATION SCHEDULES, NORTH AND SOUTH When WHO launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization in 1974, most developing countries targeted six childhood diseases for vaccination. Depending on the region, most GAVI countries now target up to 11 ... read more

TELEPHONE REMINDER SYSTEMS TO RAISE VACCINATION CO ...

Paediatr Child Health. 2011 Jan;16(1):e1-5. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TELEPHONE REMINDERS AND HOME VISITS TO IMPROVE MEASLES, MUMPS AND RUBELLA IMMUNIZATION COVERAGE RATES IN CHILDREN. As mobile phones become ubiquitous in much of Africa and Asia, i ... read more

WHAT'S NEW: TRAINING OF HOUSEHOLD HEADS ON BEDNET ...

   WHAT'S NEW THIS WEDNESDAY ON WWW.CHILDSURVIVAL.NET:'Training of household heads on the utilization of LLITN significantly reduces the burden of malaria in under-five children.'Abstract below, full text is at http://www.malariajournal. ... read more

THE ISRAEL NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY

   THE ISRAEL NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY The full text of this article, at http://www.ima.org.il/imaj/ar10may-11.pdf , includes a table describing immunization registries from 11 developed countries. If the datasets neede ... read more

RECOMBINANT SIMIAN ADENOVIRUS AS A POTENT NEW VACC ...

J Infect Dis. (2012) doi: 10.1093/infdis/jir850 First published online: January 24, 2012 Best viewed at http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/24/infdis.jir850.full Clinical Assessment of a Recombinant Simian Adenovirus ChAd63: A ... read more

NEW STUDIES OF BCG: IMPLICATIONS FOR TUBERCULOSIS ...

‘We now know that BCG is highly effective in mycobacteria-naive newborns, it can prevent M tuberculosis infection and disease,12 its efficacy may extend into adulthood,13 and that an inactivated whole-cell vaccine can boost BCG.14 The present d ... read more