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WHAT SERIAL KILLERS AND EPIDEMICS HAVE IN COMMON

Though it's often said that serial killers and diseases strike at random, a new study shows that they both kill victims in a predictable pattern. That ...

SMOKE-FREE HOUSEHOLDS WITH CHILDREN AND DECREASING ...

With No Tobacco Day on 31 May, why not another item on tobacco and kids?  ‘This is the first study to quantify average annual decreases in ...

TWO ON INTERNATIONAL VACCINE PRICING

TWO ON VACCINE PRICING 1)      UNICEF’s recent publication of vaccine prices paid to individual manufacturers, accessi ...

UNDER-5 MORTALITY DUE TO HIV: REGIONAL LEVELS AND ...

‘[I]n 2009, HIV accounted for roughly 2.1% (1.2–3.0%) of under-5 deaths in low- and middle-income countries and 3.6% (2.0–5.0%) in s ...

RAPID IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTEGRATED LARGE-SCALE ...

'Through integrated campaigns it is feasible efficiently to cover large proportions of eligible adults in rural underserved communities with multiple ...

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IN BRAZIL

How many countries have seen their Gini coefficient move from 0.64 to 0.49 in their urban areas? Brazil is proof positive that state intervention can ...

CIRCUMCISED HIV-INFECTED MEN AND HPV TRANSMISSION

‘Male circumcision is important for reduction of not only HIV infection but also HPV infection in HIV-negative men and their female partners. Ho ...

TRENDS IN SELECTIVE ABORTIONS OF GIRLS IN INDIA

'India's 2011 census revealed a growing imbalance between the numbers of girls and boys aged 0—6 years, which we postulate is due to increased p ...

FOUR ON MALARIA BEDNETS

BEDNETS I: WHICH NETS ARE BEING USED ‘[M]ore education about use and care of nets; making nets more resistant to damage; and encouraging net me ...

- - - SAGE REPORT: RUBELLA VACCINATION POLICY/ POL ...

The complete report, in French and English, is at http://www.who.int/wer/2011/wer8621.pdf   SAGE REPORT: RUBELLA VACCINATION POLICY/ POLIO ERAD ...

HIV TREATMENT AS PREVENTION -- IT WORKS

Lancet editorialLast week any doubts around treatment as an approach to halt the spread of the HIV epidemic were allayed. An international study showe ...

WHO WAS ARCHIE COCHRANE? WHY DOES HE MATTER?

In 1979 [Cochrane] wrote, "It is surely a great criticism of our profession that we have not organised a critical summary, by specialty or subspecialt ...

BILL GATES ON THE DECADE OF VACCINES

Here are Bill Gates's remarks on the Decade of Vaccines, given at the World Health Assembly in Geneva last week. Speech to the Sixty-fourth World Hea ...

MEASLES IN THE US: GOING, GOING, NOT GONE

Two items on measles in the US from the Journal of Infectious Diseases. One elephant in the parlor is that measles in the industrialized countries, t ...

SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL M ...

  http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Funding-schemes/Fellowships/Public-health-and-tropical-medicine/WTD025884.htm?utm_source= ...

LOW USE OF CONTRACEPTION AMONG POOR WOMEN IN AFRIC ...

‘Family planning programmes in sub-Saharan Africa show varying success in reaching all social segments, but inequities persist in all co ...

AFTER 2015: POST-MDG RESPONSIBILITIES

The way to go after 2015? Full text is  also at http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001031  Summary ...

BRAZIL'S EXPERIENCE WITH CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DIS ...

Brazil is the yardstick by which other middle income countries can judge their performance in combatting infectious diseases. Infectious diseases, whi ...

GAME CHANGER IN HIV PREVENTION?

A randomized clinical trial in developed and developing countries has shown dramatic declines in HIV transmission among serodiscordant heterosexu ...

CSU 177/2011: HIV PREVALENCE IN ZIMBABWE

HIV in Zimbabwe is disappearing like ‘snow in the desert’, in dramatic contrast to its neighbouring countries, mystifying epidemiologists, ...

CSU 173/2011: GOOD GOVERNANCE AND NEW VACCINE INTR ...

 I found this article the same week that I read about Merck's donation of HPV vaccine to Rwanda, the first country in central Africa to introduce ...

CSU 174/2011: SETH BERKLEY ON VACCINE STRATEGY

Video talk and transcript at http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/seth_berkley_hiv_and_flu_the_vaccine_strategy.htmlDiscussion of the flu pandemic of 191 ...

CSU 175/2011: GLOBAL PLAN FOR ROAD SAFETY/ CHILDR ...

1) GLOBAL PLAN FOR THE DECADE OF ACTION FOR ROAD SAFETYIn six languages, at http://www.who.int/roadsafety/decade_of_action/plan/en/index.htmlCountry p ...

CSU 172/2011: DETERMINANTS OF EXCLUSIVE BREAST FEE ...

‘The EBF rate in Nigeria is low and falls well short of the expected levels needed to achieve a substantial reduction in child mortality. Antena ...

CSU 170/2011: IMPROVING ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION IN DE ...

Best viewed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2474611/ BMC Health Serv Res. 2008; 8: 134. Published online 2008 June 21. doi: ...

THE PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Epidemiology is the queen of the sciences. Here, Philip Brachman of CDC lays down the principles of epidemiology. Best viewed t  http://www.ncbi ...

CSU 151/2011: MALARIA RESEARCH IN AFRICA, 1948-200 ...

The majority of malaria RCT conducted in Africa report on drug treatment and prevention in children; there is need for more research done in pregnant ...

CSU 153/2011: AGAINST EUPHORIA

Those who believe that Africa is within shooting distance of malaria elimination may wish to reconsider their position after reading this article. On ...

CSU 154/2011: ECONOMIC VALUE OF DENGUE VACCINE IN ...

‘A 50% efficacious vaccine was highly cost-effective [< 1x per capita gross domestic product (GDP) ($4,289)] up to a total vaccination cost o ...

LESSONS LEARNED FROM FIRST YEAR OF MC IMPLEMENTATI ...

  The authors reviewed health facilities for seven criteria for provision of male circumcision services:       Room ...