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UNICEF VACANCY, CHAD, COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMEN ...

Dearest Colleagues,As you may be aware, for too many months now, we have not been successful in filling the C4D Polio post in Chad, and we've decided ...

CSU 85/2011: HEPATITIS UPDATES

Tks to reader Steve Wiersma, WHO, for this list of recent hepatitis updates.    Good reading.    BD      ...

CSU 78/2011: SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL PROTECTION FLOOR P ...

 Thanks to PAHO’s Equity Homepage (see external links) for the item on “Successful social protection floor experiences.” When ...

CSU 81/2011: DISTANCE TO HEALTH CARE FACILITIES AN ...

From the American Journal of Epidemiology, Schoeps and colleagues write on‘The Effect of Distance to Health-Care Facilities on Childhood Mor ...

CSU 88/2011: ALCOHOL ABUSE AND CONTROL IN AFRICA ...

  ‘Alcohol abuse and control in Africa and globally’ gives a country by country rundown of best estimates on the frequency of alcoho ...

CSU 82/2011: TWO ON MALARIA IN PREGNANCY

1) IMPACT OF MALARIA AT THE END OF PREGNANCY ON INFANT MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY From Mozambique, additional evidence that the pregnant woman needs all ...

CSU 83/2011: THE DOMINANT ANOPHELINE VECTORS OF MA ...

    This article is the fruit of a long international collaboration, described in the introductory article to the series of which a ...

CSU 80/2011: BELIEFS ABOUT MALE CIRCUMCISION IN A ...

Westercamp and colleagues write about attitudes towards circumcision in a traditionally noncircumcising Kenyan community. After the randomized clini ...

CSU 79/2011: CIGARETTE SMOKE INCREASES SUSCEPTIBIL ...

  From the Journal of Infectious Diseases, ‘Cigarette smoke increases susceptibility to tuberculosis.’ Why is it that so few governm ...

JOB OPENING, COMMUNICATIONS FOCAL POINT OFFICER, G ...

https://jobnet.ifrc.org/public/hrd-cl-vac-view.asp?jobinfo_uid_c=2316&vaclng=en COMMUNICATIONS FOCAL POINT OFFICER, GAVI CSO CONSTITUEN ...

CSU 86/2011: INTRADERMAL DELIVERY OF VACCINES: POT ...

Intradermal vaccine delivery looks like a highly technical topic, but it might be the Next Big Thing in vaccination. If solid evidence is availabl ...

CSU 87/2011: VACCINE PROGRESS REVEALS GAPS IN DEVE ...

In the run-up to this June’s GAVI sponsored donors’ pledging conference for new and underused vaccines, The Lancet Infectious Diseases c ...

CSU 76/2011: POLIO IN INDIA

    This close look at polio in India is upbeat, but not without concerns.  From the editorial note:   ‘The current high ...

- - - MEASLES ERADICATION: 'NO' TO THE SKEPTICS

    Athalia Christie a , Andrea Gay b    The recommendation by David Heymann and colleagues (Nov 20, p 1719)1 that high routin ...

CSU 68/2011: ONCHOCERCIASIS CONTROL AND ELIMINATIO ...

 AFRICA  Since the late ‘80s, onchocerciasis control, originally based on vector control, has had as its mainstay the periodic distri ...

CSU 67/2011: HENDERSON ON SMALLPOX (2)

    In the mid-60s, the global smallpox eradication strategy moved from mass vaccination of populations to identification of smallpox foci ...

CSU 75/2011: WHEN IS A DISEASE ERADICABLE?

  Unblushingly, I reproduce a discussion article from the year 2000 that has weathered the last decade quite well. Writing in the American Journ ...

CSU 74/2011: CONTROL, ELIMINATION, ERADICATION

CONTROL, ELIMINATION, ERADICATION��In this nice discussion, Molyneux and colleagues call for consistent usage�of these related but separate term ...

CSU 69/2011: THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR DISEASE ERADICA ...

  Scott Barrett makes the economic case for disease eradication as over against long term disease control in this article from the Bull ...

CSU 70/2011: CAN POLIO BE ERADICATED? A SKEPTIC NO ...

Can Polio Be Eradicated? A Skeptic Now Thinks So By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Published: New York Times, February 14, 2011 Two weeks ago, at the end of an ...

CSU 71/2011: MALARIA ERADICATION IN 40 YEARS

   An interview with Dr Robert D Newman,  director of the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Programme since July 2009. ...

CSU 72/2011: THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF POLIOMYELITIS DEC ...

  A tour d’horizon by two well known writers on poliomyelitis. From their conclusions: If polioviruses are to be eradicated globally, sev ...

CSU 73/2011: SIX ITEMS ON DISEASE ERADICATION

CSU 59/2010: SIX ON ERADICATIONReaders of these updates will remember the uneven progress of disease radication initiatives dating back to the 1950s. ...

CSU 66/2011: HENDERSON ON SMALLPOX (1)

HENDERSON ON SMALLPOX   When D. A. Henderson took the reins of the Smallpox Eradication Programme in 1966, WHO was on the point of abandoning i ...

EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND DISTANCE ON THE VIRAL OU ...

·     EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND DISTANCE ON THE VIRAL OUTCOME OF CLINICAL SPECIMENS FROM ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS CASES ...

CSU 65/2011: TROPICAL DISEASES TARGETED FOR ELIMIN ...

     Readers, is it time for a series on disease eradication? Write to rdavis@africamail.com, ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ ...

CSU 64/2010: CANCER PREVENTION IN DEVELOPING COU ...

      Am running again, for your reading delectation, a piece I ran a year ago on this underdiscussed topic.    Good ...
  • CENTRALIZED REMINDER/RECALL

    Full text, with references, is available to subscribers at http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2130727

CSU 63/2011: MULTIPLE INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE

  Ethiopia, rare in sub-Saharan Africa, was among those countries launching countrywide IRS after the WHA resolution of 1955. With five dec ...

CSU 60/2011: INTRODUCTION TO EVIDENCE INFORMED DEC ...

    A training course, in your choice of English or French, from Canada's National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools   ...

CSU 61/2011: THE RIGHT TO SUTURES: SOCIAL EPIDEMIO ...

  In this open access article, Venkatapuram and colleagues cover familiar ground, such as under-five mortality by quintile in several countries ...

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