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MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION OF SEVEN MAJOR WEANING FOO ...

JHPN, Vol. 29 No. 4 Aug 2011 > Oluwafemi Microbial Contamination of Seven Major Weaning Foods in Nigeria F. Oluwafemi, I. Nnanna Ibeh   Ab ...

• MISINFORMATION AND ITS CORRECTION

  An excellent review of the published literature on this subject.   Excerpts appear below. The full text is at http://psi.sagepub.com/content/13 ...

CAUSES OF NEONATAL DEATHS IN A RURAL SUBDISTRICT O ...

  JHPN, Vol. 28 No. 4 Aug 2010 > Chowdhury  CAUSES OF NEONATAL DEATHS IN A RURAL SUBDISTRICT OF BANGLADESH: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERVE ...

FOEGE ON SMALLPOX ERADICATION

·     FOEGE ON SMALLPOX ERADICATION Book Review Most of us regard smallpox eradication as an accomplished fact. Not ...

INDIA'S PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTING MEASLES MORTALITY ...

INDIA’S PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTING MEASLES MORTALITY REDUCTION STRATEGIES FROM 2010-2011 From: Hasan, Hayatee Binti [mailto:hasanh@who.int] S ...

HEALTH DISPARITIES BETWEEN MUSLIM AND NON-MUSLIM C ...

HEALTH DISPARITIES BETWEEN MUSLIM AND NON-MUSLIM COUNTRIES ‘Four significant predictors explained 52%–72% of the differences in heal ...

EFFICACY OF LLINs IN MACHA, ZAMBIA

·         EFFICACY OF LONG-LASTING INSECTICIDAL NETS IN USE IN MACHA, ZAMBIA, AGAINST THE LOCAL ANOPHEL ...

PREDICTORS OF BEDNET USE IN GHANA

·         PREDICTORS OF NET USE IN GHANA Carol A Baume and Ana Claudia Franca Koh   &lsq ...

COURSE IN HUMAN AND VETERINARY VACCINOLOGY, OXFORD ...

Human and Veterinary Vaccinology 21 - 25 November 2011 (five-day course) - limited places remaining Thirty five lecture and discussion sessions over ...

MALE CIRCUMCISION AND HPV IN MEN: A SYSTEMATIC REV ...

MALE CIRCUMCISION AND HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION IN MEN: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS  ‘Several countries are expanding a ...

INSECTICIDE-TREATED NETS FOR PREVENTING MALARIA IN ...

INSECTICIDE-TREATED NETS FOR PREVENTING MALARIA IN PREGNANCY: A COCHRANE REVIEW ‘ITNs have a beneficial impact on pregnancy outcome in mala ...

UNIT-DOSES PACKAGED DRUGS FOR TREATING MALARIA: A ...

UNIT-DOSE PACKAGED DRUGS FOR TREATING MALARIA: A COCHRANE REVIEW ‘There is insufficient evidence to know if the effects of unit-dose packag ...

GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL HEALTH ...

Also at www.cdc.gov/eid GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS To the Editor: Global health security is the protectio ...

JOINT STATEMENT ON CHOLERA PREVENTION AND CARE

  MEETING CHOLERA'S CHALLENGE TO HAITI AND THE WORLD: A JOINT STATEMENT ON CHOLERA PREVENTION AND CARE Full text, with graphics, is at ht ...

COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF EARLY VERSUS ANTIRETROVIRAL ...

COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF EARLY VERSUS STANDARD ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY  Full text is at http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.137 ...

CHINA'S FACILITY BASED BIRTH STRATEGY AND NEONATAL ...

CHINA’S FACILITY BASED BIRTH STRATEGY AND NEONATAL MORTALITY  The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 16 September 2011 Full text is at ...

FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES

FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES Carlos Franco-Paredes1*, Jose I. Santos-Preciado2 Also at http://www.plosntds.org/article/info ...

WHAT'S NEW: TRAINING OF HOUSEHOLD HEADS ON BEDNET ...

   WHAT'S NEW THIS WEDNESDAY ON WWW.CHILDSURVIVAL.NET:'Training of household heads on the utilization of LLITN significantly reduces the ...

SLOW PROGRESS IN CIRCUMCISING MEN TO FIGHT AIDS IN ...

  SLOW PROGRESS IN CIRCUMCISING MEN TO FIGHT AIDS IN AFRICA New York Times, 26 September 2011 Circumcision, which cuts men’s risk of ...

HOW A FAILURE WITH MEASLES HELPED TO ERADICATE SMA ...

  HOW A FAILURE WITH MEASLES HELPED TO ERADICATE SMALLPOX Lawrence K. Altman, New York Times, 26 September 2011 When I helped run a measle ...

ETHIOPIA: ON TRACK TO MDG 4?

ETHIOPIA: ON TRACK TO MDG 4? In 1990, Ethiopia’s under-five mortality was at 204 per 1000 livebirths. Just published figures from the most rece ...

GLOBAL PROGRESS TOWARDS MDG 4 AND MDG 5

'In sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar is likely to achieve MDG 4 by 2015, whereas eight countries (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, S&a ...

UN HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

UN HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE Summary below; full text is at http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736( ...

WHY WE SHOULD EMPHASIZE PREVENTION OVER TREATMENT ...

WHY WE SHOULD EMPHASIZE PREVENTION OVER TREATMENT OF NCDs BMJ 2011; 343:d4888 doi: 10.1136/bmj.d4888 (Published 2 August 2011) http://www.bmj.c ...

GLOBAL STATUS REPORT ON NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE, W ...

GLOBAL STATUS REPORT ON NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE Text and chapters at http://www.who.int/chp/ncd_global_status_report/en/index.html  

'BEST BUYS' FOR REDUCING THE BURDEN OF COMMUNICABL ...

  GLOBAL RESPONSE TO NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE: ‘BEST BUYS’ FOR REDUCING THE BURDEN OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE British Medical ...

CLAIMS OF ITN MISUSE

CLAIMS OF ITN MISUSE Claims about the Misuse of Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets: Are These Evidence-Based? Thomas Eisele and colleagues disput ...

FUNGAL BIOPESTICIDES

FUNGAL BIOPESTICIDES ‘transient exposure to clay tiles sprayed with a candidate biopesticide comprising spores of a natural isolate of Beau ...

NET BENEFITS

NET BENEFITS From the editors’ summary: ‘the pooled relative reduction in mortality between 1 month and 5 years old associated with h ...

AFRICAN MALARIA CONTROL PROGRAMS DELIVER ITNs AND ...

AFRICAN MALARIA CONTROL PROGRAMS DELIVER ITNS AND ACHIEVE WHAT THE CLINICAL TRIALS PREDICTED Thomas Eisele and Richard Steketee discuss new resea ...

NOTES FROM THE TENTH ANNUAL MEASLES INITIATIVE MEE ...

TENTH ANNUAL MEASLES INITIATIVE MEETING HELD AT AMERICAN RED CROSS, WASHINGTON, D.C., 13-14 SEPTEMBER 2011   Tuesday Sessions   Athalia ...