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CSU 129/2010: HANS ROSLING/ TECHNET PRESENTATIONS, ...

CSU 129/2010: HANS ROSLING/ TECHNET PRESENTATIONS, KUALA LUMPUR  1) HANS ROSLING ON THE GOOD NEWS OF THE DECADE  Progress towards the MDGs ...

CSU 128/2010: VACCINE INNOVATION DONE DIFFERENTLY

CSU 128/2010: VACCINE INNOVATION DONE DIFFERENTLY From the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, www.who.int/bulletin. The first six EPI vaccin ...

SPECIAL POSTING: FAREWELL, HANS EVERTS

Today, 31 January 2014, marks the retirement from W.H.O. of Johannes (Hans) Everts, technical officer in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Ra ...

CSU 127/2010: ERADICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

CSU 127/2010: ERADICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES I last ran this Wikipedia article in 2009. What has changed since then? Giant reductions in polio ...

CSU 126/2010: FOUR ON RINDERPEST ERADICATION

CSU 126/2010:  FOUR ON RINDERPEST ERADICATION In October 2010, nine years after the last reported case, the FAO declared rinderpest eradica ...

CSU 125/2010: READER COMMENT ON ROTARY RESPONSE TO ...

CSU 125/2010: READER COMMENT ON ROTARY RESPONSE TO CONGO POLIO OUTBREAK Dear Mr Davis,It might be a good idea to also mention that Rotary Internation ...

CSU 124/2010: RAISING SUFFICIENT RESOURCES FOR HE ...

CSU 124/2010:  RAISING SUFFICIENT RESOURCES FOR HEALTH  I recently received two letters from an African government. The first letter stated ...

CSU 123/2010: SEASON'S GREETINGS/ USE OF EXISTING ...

Dear All, CSU 123/2010: SEASON'S GREETINGS/ USE OF EXISTING DATA  FOR GEOGRAPHICAL TARGETING  SEASONS' GREETINGS To those celebratin ...

CSU 122/2010: ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS IN CONGO, 20 ...

CSU 122/2010: ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS IN CONGO, 2010   A rapid communication from Eurosurveillance. See also regular updates on this outbreak a ...

CSU 121/2010: DISTANCE LEARNING IN EPIDEMIOLOGY

CSU 121/2010: DISTANCE LEARNING IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH   Thanks to readers from three countries for the following references. &nb ...

CSU 120/2010: TWO ON MALARIA PROGRAMME IMPACT

CSU 120/2010: TWO ON MALARIA PROGRAMME IMPACT   1)    MALARIA IN AFRICA: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS IN THE DECADE SINCE THE ABUJA DE ...

CSU 119/2010: THREE ON CHOLERA

CSU 119/2010: THREE ON CHOLERA Has the cost-effectiveness of oral cholera vaccinated been underestimated? So say Jeuland and colleagues. The Mozambi ...

CSU 118/2010: WATER AND SANITATION: A FOUR PART SE ...

CSU 118/2010: WATER AND SANITATION: A FOUR PART SERIES FROM PLOS/MEDICINE Four timely articles on the underemphasized MDG. 'Halve, by 2015, the ...

CSU 116/2010: QUERY TO READERS/MATERNAL MORTALITY ...

 CSU 116/2010: QUERY TO READERS/MATERNAL MORTALITY IN FOUR COUNTRIES   QUERY TO READERS   Does anyone know an online MPH  cour ...

CSU 115/2010: READER COMMENT/ WHAT HAPPENS TO DRUG ...

CSU 115/2010: READER COMMENT/ WHAT HAPPENS TO DRUG RESISTANCE WHEN CHLOROQUINE IS WITHDRAWN FROM USE? 1) READER COMMENT Reader Pat Fast comments on ...

CSU 112/2010: FURTHER READING ON HEALTH EQUITY

CSU 112/2010: FURTHER READING ON HEALTH EQUITY       1) PUBLISHED LITERATURE FROM YOUR OWN COUNTRY   Some countries ha ...

CSU 100/2010: DO SCHOOLS HOLD THE KEY TO PARASITE ...

CSU 100/2010:  DO SCHOOLS HOLD THE KEY TO PARASITE CONTROL?     Tks to Francis Peel for pointing out this item from the BMJ.   ...

CSU 99/2010: TWO ON TRACHOMA

CSU 99/2010: TWO ON TRACHOMA   1)      OVERVIEWS OF TRACHOMA Matthew Burton, of the London School, writes a revi ...

CSU 102/2010: DAVE GWATKIN'S 10 BEST PICKS OF RESO ...

EQUITY 102/2010:   10 BEST RESOURCES ON HEALTH EQUITY   Full text is at http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/5/348.long   Ex ...

CSU 110/2010: ATTACKING INEQUALITY IN THE HEALTH ...

CSU 110/2010: ATTACKING INEQUALITY IN THE HEALTH SECTOR   This World Bank starts with four chapters of thematic discussion, available at & ...

CSU 108/2010: VACCINATION AND EQUITY

  CSU 108/2010: VACCINATION  AND  EQUITY                Th ...

CSU 106/2010 : EQUITY AND INEQUITY IN RURAL BANGLA ...

EQUITY 106/2010: EQUITY AND INEQUITY IN RURAL BANGLADESH   From the International Journal for Equity in Health.   Full text ...

TWO DOSES OF MEASLES VACCINE, WITH SPECIAL REFERE ...

Since India is home to 1/6 of the world's population, it figures importantly in any calculation of progress towards achievement of global objec ...

REVISED WHO POSITION PAPER ON MEASLES VACCINE, 200 ...

The World Health Organization reissued its 2004 measles position paper, with revisions, in 2009. The abridged version appears below. The full version, ...

CSU 18/2010: IS AFRICA GOING THROUGH A FERTILITY T ...

1)      Is Africa going through a fertility transition?   In Fertility Transition in SubSaharan Africa, available on t ...

CSU 19/2010: NOTE TO READERS/ MALE CIRCUMCISION AN ...

Dear All,    Note to Readers   Please see the attached, especially pages 8 and 9, for terms of reference for work with routine ...

CSU 71/2010: NEW VACCINES FOR TUBERCULOSIS

     Is there TB vaccine after BCG? Readers of our previous update on this subject,  by Svenson and colleagues, at ...

CSU 2010: GOOD NEWS IN MALARIA CONTROL

Readers of my last update, from *The Lancet*, may be interested in this article. Writing in the *American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene*, R ...

CSU 81/2010: DDT REINTRODUCTION FOR MALARIA CONTRO ...

In recent years, bednets, especially LLINs, have moved to the fore in malaria vector control. However, intradomiciliary residual spraying (IRS) still ...

CSU 98/2010: COCHRANE REVIEW, INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRA ...

A welcome addition to our understanding of malaria vector control.   http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD006657/fram ...