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CAN VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS DECREASE CH ...

  CAN VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS DECREASE CHILD MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA? AN IMPACT EVALUATION Public Library o ...

FRED SIMIYU WILLIS, R.I.P.

I have received the following tragic news from Abdul-Aziz Mohammed, of the National Logistics Working Group, Nigeria. Fred was severely injured in the ...

TED TALK, LARRY BRILLIANT; ERADICATING SMALLPOX, ...

Dear All,Larry Brilliant speaks on his personal voyage from California in the '60s to smallpox eradication and beyond.http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en ...

TED TALK BY ALBERTO CAIRO: THERE ARE NO SCRAPS OF ...

The work of the International Red Cross in Afghanistan.http://www.ted.com/talks/alberto_cairo_there_are_no_scraps_of_men.htmlGood viewing, BD

UNAIDS REPORTS FOR 2011

From the selection of 26 publications at  http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/unaidspublications/2011/some readers will rush to the data tables. I ...

WORLD MALARIA REPORT, 2011

This year's World Malaria Report, at http://www.who.int/malaria/world_malaria_report_2011/en/comes with an executive summary, for the truly busy, ...

VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION: COST, IMPACT ...

  VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE COST, IMPACT, AND CHALLENGES OF ACCELERATED SCALING UP Abstract  Scalin ...

ONCHOCERCIASIS CONTROL IN AFRICA

ONCHO CONTROL IN AFRICA   ‘The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control and its partners have made important progress . . . The s ...

ERADICATING DISEASE: AN AMBITIOUS BUT ENERGISING G ...

  Eradicating disease: an ambitious but energising goal David Dickson 14 October 2011 Focussing on the steps needed to eradicate malaria, not ...

LARVAL SOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR MALARIA CONTROL IN AF ...

Larval source management for malaria control in Africa: myths and reality Ulrike Fillinger and Steven W Lindsay Also at http://www.malariajournal.c ...

IMPLEMENTING THE SOLAR COOL CHAIN SUCCESSFULLY

IMPLEMENTING THE SOLAR COOL CHAIN SUCCESSFULLYSolar power for vaccine storage has come a long way in the last decade. In particular, the price of so ...

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 c ...

VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION: COST, IMPACT ...

VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION FOR HIV PREVENTION: THE COST, IMPACT, AND CHALLENGES OF ACCELERATED SCALE-UP IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA ...

PROGRESS IN SCALE-UP OF MALE CIRCUMCISION FOR HIV ...

  PROGRESS IN SCALE-UP OF MALE CIRCUMCISION FOR HIV PREVENTION   Full text is at http://www.malecircumcision.org/publications/documen ...

GREATEST HITS OF 2011

Dear All, A baker’s dozen of these technical updates have each registered 500 or more hits since 1 January 2011. You, my readers, show a m ...

UMBILICAL CORD CLAMPING

'infants subjected to delayed cord clamping had 45% (95% confidence interval 23% to 71%) higher mean ferritin concentration (117 μg/L v 81 μg/ ...

INACTIVATED POLIO VACCINE AND GLOBAL POLIO ERADICA ...

 ‘Estívariz and colleagues' findings show the potential for a single IPV dose to improve protection for infants who have received tr ...

QUERY TO READERS: CRITICAL COMMUNITY SIZE FOR MEAS ...

In 1960, Bartlett placed at 250,000 to 300,000 the estimated critical community size necessary for perpetuation of measles virus in human populations. ...

ITPsp AND BIRTHWEIGHT IN IBADAN, NIGERIA

‘There is a need for improved utilisation of IPTsp as well as discouraging the use of herbal medications in pregnancy’   IPTsp AN ...

MEASURING HEPATITIS A

MEASURING HEPATITIS A   Background: World maps are among the most effective ways to convey public health messages such as recommended vacc ...

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 FU ...

INTEGRATED SCHOOL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS, ZIMBABWE

‘Integrated school based antihelminthic and sustained prompt malaria treatment [at six month intervals] has a potential to reduce the burden of ...

RESURGENT MEASLES IN EUROPE

  In French and English at http://www.who.int/wer/2011/wer8649.pdf RESURGENT MEASLES IN EUROPE    Editorial note. The increase ...

THE IMPACTS OF MATERNAL MORTALITY AND CAUSE OF DEA ...

THE IMPACTS OF MATERNAL MORTALITY AND CAUSE OF DEATH ON CHILDRENS RISK OF DYING IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA: EVIDENCE FROM A POPULATION BASED SURVEILLANCE ...

FEASIBILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF ORAL CHOLERA VACC ...

FEASIBILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF ORAL CHOLERA VACCINE IN AN URBAN ENDEMIC SETTING IN BANGLADESH: A CLUSTER RANDOMISED OPEN-LABEL TRIAL Dr Firdausi Qa ...

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATERNAL AGE AT CHILDBIRTH AND ...

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATERNAL AGE AT CHILDBIRTH AND CHILD AND ADULT OUTCOMES IN THE OFFSPRING: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY IN FIVE LOW-INCOME AND MIDDLE-INCOME ...

IMPACT OF PCV10 VACCINATION IN KILIFI, KENYA

‘Since the introduction of the catch-up campaign there has been a marked attenuation in the frequency of cases.’ IMPACT OF PCV10 VACCIN ...

BCG VACCINATION OF SCHOOLCHILDREN

BCG VACCINATION OF SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN outline goes here The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Early Online Publication, 8 November 2011 doi:10.1016/ ...

CORRUPTION KILLS

‘According to this result, it could be hypothesized that roughly 1.6% of world deaths in children could be explained by corruption meaning that, ...

ROADWAY CHARACTERISTICS AND PEDIATRIC PEDESTRIAN I ...

‘[T]he built environment is directly related to the risk of pedestrian injury.’        ROADWAY CHARACTERIST ...