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CSU 16/2008: INTERVENTIONS FOR MATERNAL & CHILD UN ...

CSU 16/2008: INTERVENTIONS FOR MATERNAL & CHILD UNDERNUTRITION & SURVIVAL  In this abstract, Bhutta and colleagues review the eviden ...

CSU 15/2008: TWO ON TOBACCO

CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 15/2008: TWO ON TOBACCO   1) TOBACCO EXPOSURE AND REPRODUCTIVE PARAMETERS  This study in Swedish yout ...

WHO MOBILIZES 164,500 DOSES OF ORAL CHOLERA VACCIN ...

WHO MOBILIZES 164,500 DOSES OF ORAL CHOLERA VACCINE TO HELP CONTROL THE CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN TANZANIA From the WHO homepage, http://www.mysearchresult ...

CSU 8/2008: CASE CONTROL STUDY OF SMOKING AND DEAT ...

CSU 8/2008: CASE CONTROL STUDY OF SMOKING AND DEATH IN INDIA  This case/control study from India, just published in the New England Jou ...

CSU 7/2008: LEPROSY, WHAT IS BEING ELIMINATED?

CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 07/2008: WHAT IS BEING ELIMINATED?   Though leprosy is targeted for elimination as a public health problem, ...

POLIO COMPARED TO MEASLES

 CSU 5/2008: POLIO COMPARED TO MEASLES/ACPE PRESENTATION/WHO POLIO RESOLUTION   1) RESPONSE TO READER QUERY: POLIO COMPARED TO MEASLES  In the ...

CSU 4/2008: BIRTH SPACING/ MORE ON MALE CIRCUMCISI ...

CSU 4/2008: BIRTH SPACING/MORE ON MALE  CIRCUMCISION   1) BIRTH SPACING  Readers of these updates will be familiar with ...

CSU 3/2008: LOW BIRTHWEIGHT AND ADULT MORBIDITY AN ...

CSU 3/2008: LOW BIRTHWEIGHT AND ADULT MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY  The effects of low birthweight on infants are widely understood; the  effect ...

MEASLES ELIMINATION IN AUSTRALIA AND 17 EUROPEAN C ...

CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 14/2008: TWO ON MEASLES  1) MEASLES ELIMINATION IN AUSTRALIA AND 17 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES  The present decade, sta ...

EQUALITY OF ACCESS FOR MEASLES VACCINATION/ AEROSO ...

CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 13/2008: THREE ON MEASLES/READER FEEDBACK   1) HIGHER MEASLES VACCINATION COVERAGE AND EQUALITY OF ACCESS &n ...

CSU 33/2007: THREE ON ERADICATION

 CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 33/2007: THREE ON ERADICATION  1) THREE ON ERADICATION  Scott Barrett makes the economic case for dise ...

CSU 11/2008: GATES FOUNDATION ON MALARIA ERADICA ...

 CSU 11/2008: GATES FOUNDATION ON MALARIA  ERADICATION  The phrase 'malaria eradication' came into use in 1955, when WHO's go ...

CSU 10/2008: THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF VACCINATION

CSU 10/2008: THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF  VACCINATION Thanks to reader Francis André for pointing out this discussion  articl ...

NEW LOOK ON MI HOMEPAGE; CONTRIBUTION OF ROUTINE V ...

   READER FEEDBACK ON MEASLES Readers Athalia Christie and Robert Steinglass both respond to the update on progress of measles mortality r ...

CSU 2/2009: PROGRESS TOWARDS MDGs IN BANGLADESH

CSU 2/2009: PROGRESS TOWARDS MDGs IN BANGLADESH The example of Bangladesh is proof positive that poor countries do not need to wait for prosperit ...

CSU 3/2009: VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS

CSU 3/2009:  VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS  1)     ESTIMATING THE EXTENT OF VDPV   To date, the world has seen eigh ...

CSU 5/2009: TWO ON HEALTH IN CUBA

CSU 5/2009: TWO ON HEALTH IN CUBA    This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, which saw the regime of Fulgencio ...

CSU 6/2009: MDA WITH DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE PLUS ALBE ...

CSU 6/2009:  1) THE IMPACT OF REPEATED ROUNDS OF MASS DRUG ADMINISTRATION WITH DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE PLUS ALBENDAZOLE ON BANCROFTIAN FILAR ...

CSU 7/2009: QUERY TO READERS, U5MR IN THE GAMBIA

CSU 7/2009: QUERY TO READERS, U5MR IN THE GAMBIA  1) QUERY TO READERS  Do any readers have field experience with vector control of ...

POPULATION IMMUNITY TO MEASLES IN ZAMBIAN CHILDREN ...

CSU 9/2009: Population Immunity to Measles in Zambian Children  Writing in a recent number of  The Lancet, Sara Lowther and colleagues show ...

CSU 10/2009: ALLIANCE FOR MALARIA PREVENTION

CSU 10/2009: Alliance for Malaria Prevention        This update goes out a week after I revisited the Repub ...

MEASLES ELIMINATION IN CHINA AND WESTERN PACIFIC/ ...

  1) Measles Elimination in China and Western Pacific Of the six WHO regions, four, including the Western Pacific, are committed to time limi ...

CSU 13/2009: MALE CIRCUMCISION/ DRIVERS OF INFANT ...

CSU 13/2009: MALE CIRCUMCISION/  DRIVERS OF INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY / FERTILITY DECLINES AND SOCIAL SECURITY   MALE C ...

CSU 14/2009: QUERY TO READERS/ INTRODUCTION OF R ...

CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 14/2009: QUERY TO READERS/ INTRODUCTION OF   RUBELLA   VACCINATION/ SMALLPOX ERADICATION  QU ...

CSU 15/2009: FORESKIN AT THE FOREFRONT/ NEW FIN ...

CSU 15/2009: FORESKIN AT THE FOREFRONT/    NEW FINDINGS FROM UGANDA/ FIRST QUARTER POSTINGS   This editorial from the New E ...

CSU 13/2009: READER FEEDBACK/ ADDITIONAL BENEFITS ...

CSU 13/2009: READER FEEDBACK/ ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OF  DEWORMING / NTD FUNDING/  READER FEEDBACK  As a WHO logistics officer and ac ...

CSU 16/2009: COCHRANE REVIEW ON IMPACT OF INSECTIC ...

CSU 16/2009: COCHRANE REVIEW ON IMPACT OF INSECTICIDE TREATED NETS IN PREGNANT WOMEN/ CENTENARY OF CHAGAS' DISCOVERY OF CHAGAS DISEASE   1) COC ...

CSU 17/2009: DOES DEWORMING WORK?/VACCINE INVESTME ...

CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 17/2009: DOES DEWORMING WORK?/VACCINE INVESTMENTS  QUERY TO READERS  Do any readers have published or unpubl ...

18/2009: NEW WEBSITE/ IMPROVING ROUTINE IMMUNIZATI ...

18/2009: NEW WEBSITE/ IMPROVING ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES/ TIMING OF VACCINATIONS   NEW WEBSITE (CROSS-POSTED FROM WWW.TECH ...

CSU 24/2009: PASTEUR AND RABIES

  CSU 24/2009: PASTEUR AND RABIES   It is hard to choose a single topic from all of Pasteur’s work. Not all of it is available in E ...