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V: REGIONAL AND COUNTRY EXPERIENCES, AFRICA REGION ...

Herewith, abstracts on regional and country experiences with measles control and elimination from six regions.   Items V through X, like items ...

MASS DRUG TREATMENT AGAINST TRACHOMA IN TANZANIA

‘Country programs in trachoma-endemic regions must realistically expect that several years of annual mass treatment may be necessary to eliminat ...

'WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR'

Now in its eleventh printing, 'Where There is no Doctor' is a practical guide for community health workers. Originally published in paper editions in ...

TWO COCHRANE REVIEWS ON MALARIA VECTOR CONTROL

TWO COCHRANE REVIEWS ON MALARIA VECTOR CONTROL Below, two Cochrane reviews on malaria vector control; one recent one on IRS, one (slightly dated) one ...

OUTCOMES OF POLIO ERADICATION ACTIVITIES IN UTTAR ...

Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have seen no wild poliovirus in 2011. Would they have gotten this far without tailored approaches to social mobilization?Those ...

MIDWIFERY, MATERNAL MORTALITY REDUCTION, AND MDG ...

MIDWIFERY, MATERNAL MORTALITY REDUCTION, AND MDG 5 This UNFPA report, the result of collaborative efforts by 30 partners, shows the links between mid ...

TWO VACANCIES, COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT SPECI ...

Communication for development specialist, P3, Dakar, Senegal Two vacancies: Immunization, Polio See www.unicef.org, click ‘Job Seekers’ ...

OF CIGARETTES, RATS AND TRANS FATS: CDC DIRECTOR T ...

OF CIGARETTES, RATS AND TRANS FATS: CDC DIRECTOR THOMAS FRIEDEN ON LEADING IN PUBLIC HEALTH, WHEN SUCCESS IS WHAT YOU DON’T SEE  Washi ...

IV: MEASLES VACCINE SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS

MEASLES VACCINE SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS Field Effectiveness of Live Attenuated Measles-Containing Vaccines: A Review of Published Literature 1.&n ...

III: ECONOMIC STUDIES ON MEASLES AND MEASLES ERADI ...

ECONOMIC STUDIES Global Eradication of Measles: An Epidemiologic and Economic Evaluation 1.   Ann Levin1, 2.   Colleen Burge ...

I: EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MEASLES BUT ...

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MEASLES BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK Many thanks to the indispensable Jane Wachira, who, on the eve of her holiday, ...

- - - BIOLOGICAL FEASIBILITY OF MEASLES ERADICATI ...

FEASIBILITY OF MEASLES ERADICATION Biological Feasibility of Measles Eradication 1.   William J. Moss1 and 2.   Peter Strebe ...

THE BREAST MILK CURE

THE BREAST MILK CURE New York Times, 22 June 2011 Also at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/opinion/23kristof.html?_r=1&hp [This article cites ...

THE POLIO ENDGAME

The Polio Endgame The view from WHO and BMGF.Also at http://healthpolicyandreform.nejm.org/?p=14698&query=home NEJM | June 15, 2011 | Topic ...

BEST PRACTICES IN MALARIA BEDNET DISTRIBUTION

Best practices for an insecticide-treated bed net distribution programme in sub-Saharan eastern Africa When initial bednet coverage is low, can  ...

PERDIEMITIS

Per diems undermine health interventions, systems and research in Africa: burying our heads in the sand Valéry Ridde1,2,3 Article first publi ...

IN MEMORIAM, PROFESSOR BARBARA STARFIELD

From jhsph.edu Barbara Starfield, Championed Importance of Primary Care   Barbara Starfield, professor of Health Policy ...

SYPHILIS SCREENING IN PREGNANCY: A SYSTEMATIC REVI ...

‘Interventions to improve the coverage and effect of screening programmes for antenatal syphilis could reduce the syphilis-attributable incidenc ...

ADDRESSING THE VACCINE CONFIDENCE GAP

Key messages Public concerns about vaccines are not merely about vaccine safety, but are also about vaccine policies and recommendations, vaccine c ...

DIARRHEA INCIDENCE AND TUBEWELL DENSITY IN RURAL B ...

  ‘Increasing the amount of drinking water available to households through increased density of tubewells contributed to lower reports of ...

VACCINE FINANCING: THE GAVI VIEW

VACCINE FINANCING: THE GAVI VIEW Best viewed at http://www.gavialliance.org/resources/Financing_Country_Demand_GAVI_Alliance_August_2010.pdf  & ...

BILL GATES LOOKS AT THE LEGACY OF JAMES P. GRANT

  Writing in www.TheGatesNotes.com Bill Gates remembers the work of James P. Grant, executive director of UNICEF in the 1980s, in placing Univer ...

THREE ON THE RESULTS OF THE LONDON PLEDGING CONFER ...

1) GAVI PRESS RELEASE FROM THE LONDON PLEDGING CONFERENCEGAVI Alliance poised to immunise more than 250 million children in developing countries by 20 ...

RECOMMENDATIONS ON MALE CIRCUMCISION IN SOUTH AFRI ...

MALE CIRCUMCISION IN SOUTH AFRICA   This desk review of literature on male circumcision, also available at http://www.malecircumcision.org/pro ...

POLITICAL DECLARATION ON HIV/AIDS: INTENSIFYING OU ...

United Nations A/65/L.77, http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=A/65/L.77 General Assembly Sixty-fifth session Agenda item 10 Political Decl ...

15 MILLION ON RETROVIRALS BY '15?

See below, and at www.un.org, deliberations of the high level meeting on AIDS just completed at UN headquarters.   Among other things, the ...

SEVEN MISTAKES THAT EPIDEMIOLOGISTS MAKE

From Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, ete-online.com/article/10.1186/1742/7622/6/6Seven mistakes and potential solutions in epidemiology, including a ...

COVERAGE OF ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, BY COUNTRY

  Coverage of antiretroviral therapy at the end of 2009 (WHO 2010 Guidelines, CD4<350) Below, top and bottom quintiles; all quin ...

MALE CIRCUMCISION IN EIGHT AFRICAN COUNTRIES

EXCERPT FROM THE UN REPORT, 'AIDS AT 30: NATIONS AT THE CROSSROADS' Medical circumcisions in eight African countries have risen to 350,000 per year f ...

ROLL-OUT OF ADULT CIRCUMCISION SERVICES IN SOUTH A ...

As recently as 10 years ago, the Republic of South Africa had a president who denied the causal link between HIV and AIDS, and a health minister who p ...