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CSU 57/2011: INTERMITTENT PREVENTIVE TREATMENT OF ...

Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in children less than five years of age (IPTc) has been investigated as a measure to control the burden of malaria in the Sahel and sub-Sahelian areas of Africa where malaria transmission is markedly seaso ... read more

CSU 59/2011: ARE ADVANCE MARKET COMMITMENTS WORKIN ...

GAVI Chair Calls For Greater Reductions In Vaccine Prices For Developing Countries From the Kaiser Daily Global Health Report Tuesday, February 15, 2011 On Monday, the same day the GAVI Alliance helped oversee the roll out of a routine pneumoc ... read more

CSU 58/2011: KENYA ROLLS IN THE 10VALENT PNEUMO VA ...

From the GAVI Alliance:   Pneumonia vaccine New tool to fight pneumonia in children in developing countries set for Kenya launch Kenya, with the support of the GAVI Alliance is set to roll out pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) routinely ... read more

CSU 87/2011: VACCINE PROGRESS REVEALS GAPS IN DEVE ...

In the run-up to this June’s GAVI sponsored donors’ pledging conference for new and underused vaccines, The Lancet Infectious Diseases crunches the numbers on vaccine costs and the constraints they place on rapid introduction of pneumoc ... read more

CSU 86/2011: INTRADERMAL DELIVERY OF VACCINES: POT ...

Intradermal vaccine delivery looks like a highly technical topic, but it might be the Next Big Thing in vaccination. If solid evidence is available that fractional doses of certain parenterally administered vaccines can be given intradermally wit ... read more

CSU 85/2011: HEPATITIS UPDATES

Tks to reader Steve Wiersma, WHO, for this list of recent hepatitis updates.    Good reading.    BD        New published stuff: (lots more coming soon) The global prevalence of hepatitis E virus and ... read more

CSU 97/2011: IMMUNIZATION ADHERENCE IN RURAL PAKIS ...

  From the summary: Results  We enrolled 378 mother–child pairs in redesigned card group, 376 in centre-based education group, 374 in combined intervention group and 378 in standard care group. By the end of follow-up, 39% of childr ... read more

CSU 101/2011: HEPATITIS B AND THE CASE OF THE MISS ...

Emily Oster proposes hep B infection as one explanation for the uneven sex ratios among newborns in several countries, where boys outnumber girls. If her hypothesis is true, then hep B vaccination will, over time, partially correct sex ratios am ... read more