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ORAL CHOLERA VACCINES: THE W.H.O. VIEW

ORAL CHOLERA VACCINES: THE W.H.O. VIEW Until the 1990s, only parenterally administered cholera vaccines were available for the prevention of chol ...

QUERY TO READERS

What are the most important preventive measures against cholera? Maximum three answers, in descending order of importance.Will publish your replies on ...

CDC GRAND ROUNDS IN PUBLIC HEALTH, NEWBORN SCREENI ...

Dear Subscribers, Don't forget to tune into today's webcast of CDC's Public Health Grand Rounds, entitled "Newborn Screening: Improving Outcomes", wh ...

SALEABILITY OF ANTIMALARIALS IN PRIVATE DRUG SHOPS ...

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Those who take comfort in the issuance of national policies on malaria drug treatment may take discomf ...

GLOBAL USE OF INSECTICIDES FOR VECTOR-BORNE DISEAS ...

The first of these two WHO reports is a multiyear review of the use of insecticides – primarily through the use of IRS (indoor residual spraying ...

POPULATION, POVERTY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A ...

This World Bank study looks at the evidence on the relationships between high fertility and poverty. Thanks to The Pan-American Health Organization fo ...

COMBINED USED OF OPV AND IPV IN DEVELOPING COUNTRI ...

COMBINED USE OF OPV AND IPV IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIESDuring a recent visit to South Africa, I learned that the national immunization program had al ...

THE POLIO ERADICATION HOMEPAGE

WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEKEND ON WWW.CHILDSURVIVAL.NET: POLIO, POLIO, POLIO For readers not familiar with it, the webpage of the Global Polio Eradica ...

REQUEST FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS. NOTE DEADLINE

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH ON POLIO ERADICATION Greetings, UNICEF, in collaboration with the Global Polio Eradication Partnersh ...

DELIGHT AND UNEASE OVER LAW ON STUDENT VACCINATION ...

  DELIGHT AND UNEASE OVER LAW ON STUDENT VACCINATIONS FOR MENINGITIS By REEVE HAMILTON New York Times,  August 11, 2011 Among the t ...

RESPIRATORY ADMINISTRATION OF MEASLES VACCINE

  RESPIRATORY ADMINISTRATION OF MEASLES VACCINE An evaluation of respiratory administration of measles vaccine for prevention of acute lowe ...

TWO METHODS FOR CALCULATING MEASLES MORTALITY

TWO METHODS FOR CALCULATING MEASLES MORTALITY Comparison of LiST measles mortality model and WHO/IVB measles model Wei-Ju Chen Department of In ...

MATERIA NON MEDICA; 'FORGETFULNESS'

'Forgetfulness,' by Billy Collins, poet laureate FORGETFULNESS The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the p ...

CAN LAY HEALTH WORKERS INCREASE VACCINATION COVERA ...

‘Lay health workers could make an important contribution to achieving the Millennium Development Goal for child health. However, more high-quali ...

ONE BILLION MEASLES SHOTS

The Measles Initiative Vaccinates One Billion Children in First Decade Milestone marks progress and points to need for funding and political will to ...

FAMILY PLANNING AND IMMUNIZATION INTEGRATION WORKI ...

  Please save the date! FHI 360 and MCHIP cordially invite you to participate in the second Family Planning and Immunization Integration Working ...

RCTs IN CHILD HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

A valuable tool in advancing evidence based decision making.  http://www.ichrc.org/sites/www.ichrc.org/files/RCTs20112012.pdf Four trials repor ...

CHINA AND INDIA AS SUPPLIERS OF AFFORDABLE MEDICIN ...

  CHINA AND INDIA AS MEDICAL SUPPLIERS China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries Abstract and full text ...

FUTURE TRENDS IN LEPROSY

FUTURE TRENDS IN LEPROSY ‘The strategy will not immediately reduce the prevalence of G2D, but if it is applied consistently over the next 25 ye ...

WHO REVISED RECOMMENDATIONS ON RUBELLA VACCINATION ...

WHO REVISED RECOMMENDATIONS ON RUBELLA VACCINATION   ‘WHO recommends that countries take the opportunity offered by accelerated measles ...

POLIO OUTBREAK IN POINTE-NOIRE, CONGO, 2010-2011

POLIO OUTBREAK, POINTE-NOIRE, CONGO, 2010-2011 Best viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/17/8/110195.htm   Volume 17, Number 8–A ...

TB VACCINE RESEARCH

TB VACCINE RESEARCH ‘The increased research activities into tuberculosis vaccines are the result of increased public and private funding. Withi ...

THE DRIVERS OF ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION SYSTEM PERFORM ...

Findings from the Synopsis of the ARISE Lanscape Analysis Findings Analysis of Routine Immunization Performance in Africa ARISE reviewed exist ...

CHINA'S ONE CHILD POLICY

FROM  THE ECONOMIST: CHINA’S ONE CHILD POLICY Best viewed at http://www.economist.com/node/18988926 The Economist, Jul 21st 2011 | BEIJIN ...

MATERIA NON MEDICA: HALVORSEN, PASSACAGLIA

MATERIA NON MEDICA Robert Gupta and Joshua Roman perform Halvorsen, Passacaglia. The listeners, unfamiliar with the piece, start their ovation ...

EMERGING VACCINES FOR CHILDHOOD PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUM ...

An evaluation of emerging vaccines for childhood pneumococcal pneumonia BMC Public Health 2011, 11(Suppl 3):S26doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-S3-S26 The e ...

ROTAVIRUS VACCINE AND DIARRHEA MORTALITY: QUANTIFY ...

Rotavirus vaccine and diarrhea mortality: quantifying regional variation in effect size � Christa L Fischer Walker and Robert E Black Department of ...

ZINC SUPPLEMENTATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: IMPA ...

Preventive zinc supplementation in developing countries: impact on mortality and morbidity due to diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria � BMC Public Hea ...

EMERGING VACCINES FOR CHILDHOOD MENINGOCOCCAL DISE ...

An evaluation of emerging vaccines for childhood meningococcal disease BMC Public Health 2011, 11(Suppl 3):S29doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-S3-S29 The el ...

BARRIERS TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS FOR UNDER-5s IN WES ...

‘Caregivers' actions were thought to influence children's progression to illness or health while the healthcare delivery system posed recurrent ...