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NEW JOURNAL: THE LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH

For details on this new Lancet journal, go to http://www.thelancet.com/langlo/launch

NEW THIS TUESDAY: COUNTDOWN TO 2015 FOR MATERNAL, ...

COUNTDOWN TO 2015 FOR MATERNAL, NEWBORN & CHILD SURVIVAL Excerpt below; full text is at http://countdown2015mnch.org/documents/2013Report/Cou ...

NEW THIS MONDAY: FOUR ON POLIO ERADICATION

 NEW THIS MONDAY: FOUR ON POLIO   WANING INTESTINAL IMMUNITY AFTER OPV VACCINATION IN INDIA http://www.childsurvival.net/?content ...

NEW THIS SUNDAY: NEW TOOLS TO HUNT NEW VIRUSES

NEW TOOLS TO HUNT NEW VIRUSES From the New York Times A new flu, H7N9, has killed 36 people since it was first found in China two months ago. A ...

- - - EVALUATING THE AFP SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM IN SO ...

EVALUATING THE ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM IN SOUTH AFRICA, 2005-2009 - AN ANALYSIS OF SECONDARY DATA    Landiwe Siphum ...

- - - WANING INTESTINALIMMUNITY AFTER VACCINATION ...

WANING INTESTINAL IMMUNITY AFTER VACCINATION WITH ORAL POLIOVIRUS VACCINES IN INDIA Journal of Infectious Diseasesjid.oxfordjournals.org J Infe ...

- - - SUCCESSES AND SHORTCOMINGS OF POLIO ERADICA ...

  SUCCESSES AND SHORTCOMINGS OF POLIO ERADICATION: A TRANSMISSION MODELING ANALYSIS Am. J. Epidemiol. (2013) 177 (11): 1236-1245. doi: 10.1 ...

- - - UPDATE ON VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS

UPDATE ON VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUSES Editorial note below; full text is at http://www.who.int/wer/2012/wer8738.pdf WHO convened a meeting in M ...

NEW THIS FRIDAY: RESEARCH PRIORITIES ON CHILDHOOD ...

RESEARCH PRIORITIES ON CHILDHOOD DIARRHEAL DISEASE Setting Research Priorities to Reduce Mortality and Morbidity of Childhood Diarrhoeal Disease ...

NEW THIS THURSDAY: BREASTFEEDING AND INTELLIGENCE

·       BREASTFEEDING AND INTELLIGENCE   FROM THE W.H.O. PUBLICATION, LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF BREAS ...

NEW THIS TUESDAY: BOOK REVIEW, PARALYSED WITH FEAR ...

The Lancet, Volume 381, Issue 9880, Pages 1805 - 1806, 25 May 2013 Polio revisited Original Text Paul Offit a Paralysed with Fear: the S ...

NEW THIS SATURDAY: CARRIAGE OF M. PNEUMONIAE IN SY ...

·       CARRIAGE OF MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE IN THE UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OF SYMPTOMATIC AND ASYMPTOMATIC CHILDR ...

NEW THIS MONDAY: EIGHT ITEMS FROM THE APRIL 2013 M ...

EIGHT ITEMS FROM THE MEETING OF THE STRATEGIC ADVISORY GROUP OF EXPERTS The WHO SAGE met in Geneva in April 2013, with, full conclusions and reco ...

- - - MALARIA VACCINES

  MALARIA VACCINES  Malaria continues to make a significant contribution to the global disease burden, with an estimated 660 000 death ...

- - - VACCINE HESITANCY

VACCINE HESITANCY Vaccine hesitancy and refusal is not a new phenomenon, although more attention has been paid to it in recent years. The conce ...

- - - NON-SPECIFIC EFFECTS OF VACCINES ON MORTALI ...

NON-SPECIFIC EFFECTS OF VACCINES ON MORTALITY SAGE previously requested that WHO review the evidence concerning the possible non-specific morta ...

- - - YELLOW FEVER VACCINATION

YELLOW FEVER VACCINATION A report was presented from the SAGE working group on yellow fever (YF) vaccines; the group was tasked with reviewing ...

- - - POLIO ERADICATION

POLIO ERADICATION SAGE commended the GPEI on remarkable continued progress made towards decreasing wild poliovirus transmission in the remainin ...

- - - REPORT FROM THE IMMUNIZATION PRACTICE ADVISO ...

REPORT FROM THE IMMUNIZATION PRACTICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (IPAC) A report of the April 2013 IPAC meeting was presented. SAGE endorsed IPACs ongo ...

- - - REPORT FROM THE GLOBAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ...

REPORT FROM THE GLOBAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON VACCINE SAFETY (GACVS)   A report of the December 2012 GACVS meeting was presented. SAGE ac ...

- - - REPORT FROM THE GAVI ALLIANCE

REPORT FROM THE GAVI ALLIANCE The report provided an update on: (i) the processes and  timelines for developing the next Vaccine Investmen ...

WANTED: INNOVATIVE WAYS TO REACH ALL CHILDREN WIT ...

  WANTED: INNOVATIVE WAYS TO REACH ALL CHILDREN WITH VACCINES $250,000 award recognizes creative ideas for improving immunization in develo ...

NEW THIS SUNDAY: STATE OF THE WORLDS MOTHERS

   STATE OF THE WORLDS MOTHERS 2013   Annual report, Save the Children Fund    Excerpts below; full text is at http:/ ...

NEW THIS SATURDAY: AFTERMATH OF AN UNFOUNDED VACCI ...

Aftermath of an Unfounded Vaccine Scare By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Published: New York Times, May 22, 2013Note to readers: This editorial is a follow-on ...

NEW THIS FRIDAY: GOVERNMENT ROLE IN PROTECTING HEA ...

GOVERNMENT ROLE IN PROTECTING HEALTH AND SAFETY Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. N Engl J Med 2013; 368:1857-1859 May 16, 2013 Text below; best ...

NEW THIS THURSDAY: EXPOSURE TO METALS AND CHILD GR ...

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE TO METALS AND CHILDRENS GROWTH TO AGE 5 YEARS: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY IN RURAL BANGLADESH American Journal of Epidemio ...

REPORT ON POLIO TO THE WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY

SIXTY-SIXTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY A66/18 Provis ...

NEW THIS TUESDAY: MEASURING VACCINE CONFIDENCE

MEASURING VACCINE CONFIDENCE: ANALYSIS OF DATA OBTAINED BY A MEDIA SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM USED TO ANALYSE PUBLIC CONCERNS ABOUT VACCINES  The L ...

NEW THIS MONDAY: TEN FROM THE LANCET ON GENDER AND ...

·       TEN FROM THE LANCET ON GENDER AND GLOBAL HEALTH The discussion article below by Hawkes and Buse leads ...

IN MEMORIAM, DR ALI JAFFER MOHAMED

In memoriam: Dr Ali Jaffer Mohamed Hayatee Binti Hasan, WHO  It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dr Ali Jaffer Mohamed, f ...