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49/2008: READER FEEDBACK/SEX RATIOS IN MUMBAI

 49/2008: READER FEEDBACK/SEX RATIOS IN MUMBAI   READER FEEDBACK  Dear Colleagues,   This study by Bialek and colleagues in ...

CSU 48/2008: PERSISTENCE OF HEP B PROTECTION IN VA ...

CSU 48/2008: PERSISTENCE OF HEP B PROTECTION IN VACCINEES AFTER 15 YEARS  The developed and developing countries now have more than two dec ...

CSU 46/2008: LANCET SERIES ON HIV PREVENTION

CSU 46/2008:LANCET SERIES ON HIV PREVENTION This series of articles from The Lancet places the emphasis on HIV prevention. With a disease so ...

PREDICTED IMPACT OF HIV 1 ON MEASLES IN DEVELOPING ...

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CSU 43/2008: SUICIDE PREVENTION, A FIVE COUNTRY IN ...

 CSU 43/2008: SUICIDE PREVENTION, A FIVE COUNTRY INTERVENTION STUDY   According to WHO estimates, yearly deaths from suicide excee ...

CSU 42/2008: PATERNAL SMOKING AND CHILD MORTALITY

CSU 42/2008: PATERNAL SMOKING AND CHILD MORTALITY Child Survival Update 42/2008: Paternal Smoking and Infant and Under-Five Mortality in Indo ...

CSU 41/2008: ALMA ATA, THREE DECADES ON

CSU 41/2008: ALMA ATA, THREE DECADES ON  Those who enjoyed Halfdan Mahler’s remarks in the last CSU may want to read this series ...

CSU 40/2008: The Social Determinants of Health/Pri ...

CSU 40/2008: The Social Determinants of Health/Primary Health Care, Full Circle   The Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, headed b ...

CSU 39/2008: RISK COMPENSATION IN KISUMU, KENYA ...

CSU 39/2008: RISK COMPENSATION IN   KISUMU, KENYA   Dear All,  It is sometimes stated, without proof, that the promotion ...

CSU 37/2008: QUERY TO READERS/READER FEEDBACK/EPI ...

 CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 37/2008: QUERY TO READERS/READER FEEDBACK/EPI TRAINING   Reader feedback on our previous week's posting  ...

CSU 36/2008: THE CASE FOR UNIVERSAL HEP B VACCINA ...

CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 36/2008: THE CASE FOR  UNIVERSAL HEP B VACCINATION   Since the 1991 WHA resolution in favor of universal chi ...

CSU 35/2008: LEAD CONCENTRATIONS AND ARRESTS IN EA ...

CSU 35/2008: LEAD CONCENTRATIONS AND ARRESTS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD  In this research from the US, "Association of Prenatal and Childhood Blood  ...

CSU 12/2008: PROMOTING MALE CIRCUMCISION IN RWAND ...

CSU 12/2008: PROMOTING MALE  CIRCUMCISION IN RWANDA  The Republic of Rwanda has three ethnic groups (Hutu, Tutsi and Twa) whi ...

CSU 33/2008: BCG AND LEPROSY PROTECTION

CSU 33/2008: BCG AND LEPROSY PROTECTION Work from Malawi and elsewhere has pointed to a protective effect against leprosy of BCG vaccination. In this ...

SEASONALITY AND THE PERSISTENCE AND INVASION OF ME ...

 CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 32/2008: SEASONALITY AND THE PERSISTENCE AND INVASION OF MEASLESThe UN believes that more than half the world's people ...

CSU 31/2008: FUTURE GLOBAL POLICIES FOR MANAGING ...

 CSU 31/2008:  FUTURE GLOBAL POLICIES FOR MANAGING POLIOVIRUSES   This article, also available at http://www.ajph.org/cgi/rep ...

CSU 29/2008: AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS

CSU 29/2008: AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS  Recent years have seen a decline in recorded cases of African trypanosomiasis, reversing an upw ...

CSU 28/2008: PNEUMONIA

CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 28/2008: PNEUMONIA  Readers interested in either clinical or preventive approaches to pneumonia will welcome this ...

- - -CONTROL, ELIMINATION, ERADICATION

CSU 27/2008: CONTROL, ELIMINATION, ERADICATION  In this nice discussion, Molyneux and colleagues call for consistent usage of these rel ...

CSU 26/2008: PREPARATIONS FOR INFLUENZA PANDEMIC I ...

CSU 26/2008: PREPARATIONS FOR INFLUENZA PANDEMIC IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES  The spectre of a future influenza pandemic, like that of 1918, is ...

CSU 25/2008: ANTIMALARIAL MONOTHERAPY IN THE MOST ...

CSU 25/2008: ANTIMALARIAL MONOTHERAPY IN THE MOST SEVERELY MALARIOUS PARTS OF AFRICA  It is not every day that articles on tropical medicine fin ...

CSU 24/2008: PREVENTING CHILD MALARIA BY PROTECTI ...

  CSU 24/2008: PREVENTING CHILD MALARIA BY PROTECTING ADULTS WITH BED NETS     To date, most distribution programmes fo ...

MEASLES PRE-ELIMINATION GOAL, WHO/AFRO

CSU 23/2008: MEASLES PRE-ELIMINATION GOAL  PRE-ELIMINATION OF MEASLES, WHO/AFRO  Until quite recently, the African region of WHO has b ...

CSU 22/2008: DEWORMING IN PRESCHOOLERS

CSU 22/2008: DEWORMING IN PRESCHOOLERS CSU 22/2008: Controlling Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis in Pre-School-Age  Children through Prev ...

CSU 21/2008: CHILD SURVIVAL IN TANZANIA/QUERY TO R ...

CSU 21/2008: CHILD SURVIVAL IN TANZANIA/QUERY TO READERS/READER FEEDBACK  Dear All,   CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 21/2008: CHILD SURVIV ...

CSU 20/2008: TWO ON MEASLES/BOOK REVIEW/READER FE ...

Dear All,  CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 20/2008: TWO ON MEASLES/BOOK REVIEW/READER FEEDBACK (2)  1) AEROSOL MEASLES VACCINE &nb ...

REVIEW ON AEROSOL MEASLES VACCINES/ FEASIBILITY OF ...

Dear All,  CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 20/2008: TWO ON MEASLES/BOOK REVIEW/READER FEEDBACK (2)  1) AEROSOL MEASLES VACCINE &nb ...

CSU 19/2008: LIMITS AND INTENSITY OF FALCIPARUM /R ...

CSU 19/2008: LIMITS AND INTENSITY OF FALCIPARUM /READER FEEDBACK   1) LIMITS AND INTENSITY OF FALCIPARUM TRANSMISSION    ...

CSU 18/2008: HIB VACCINATION IN UGANDA

CSU 18/2008: HIB VACCINATION IN UGANDA   Writing in the April 2008 Bulletin of the W.H.O., Rosamund Lewis and colleagues document Hib ...

CSU 17/2008: MATERNAL AND CHILD MORTALITY IN SOUTH ...

CSU 17/2008: MATERNAL AND CHILD MORTALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA   South Africa, where health care is almost entirely self-financed, is n ...