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POST 01292E: NEEDLE-FREE/COLD CHAIN-FREE VACCINE DELIVERY 20 JULY 2008 ******************************************* A peep into the future with regard to needle-free vaccine delivery reveals that innumerable innovative technologies are being researched to deliver vaccines. These range from aerosol...

POST 01245E: MAKING RESPONSIBLE CHOICES FOR PUBLIC HEALTH 26 MARCH 2008 ******************************************* The New York Times reports a “highly unusual outbreak of measles” in San Diego among 12 children, nine of whom had not been vaccinated. If in countries in transition it is the lack...

POST 01206E : VACCINE STOCK MANAGEMENT Follow-up on Posts 01114E, 01127E, 01138E, 01164E, 01178E, 01186E, 01191E, and 01195E 22 December 2007 [log in to unmask]">Ranjit Dhiman from WHO/WPRO replies to James Cheyne on vaccine needs calculation Dear James, The method proposed is a logical ...

POST 01183E : BCG AND LEPROSY 8 November 2007 This posting contains two contributions. Devesh Singh from India asks a question about the protective effect of BCG. Thanks to Uli Fruth from WHO/HQ for providing an answer. The Lancet article to which he refers is surprisingly still available on a p...

POST 01175E : VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO VIRUS 22 October 2007 We wish to draw your attention to the Weekly Epidemiological Report of 28 September 2007 that featured a "Global update on vaccine-derived polioviruses, January 2006 - August 2007" Since 2000, increasing evidence has affirmed the need for...

POST 01174E : ERADICATION EFFORTS 20 October 2007 Robert Davis from UNICEF/ESARO proposes the following analysis of eradication efforts. Food for thought and discussion! Proof of concept for four eradication efforts: malaria, smallpox, polio, and measles MALARIA The 1955 decision by WHO's g...

POST 01146E : IMF AND HEALTH SPENDING 23 August 2007 It is not so often that we discuss macroeconomics. Those of you interested by these questions may find the following report quite interesting. It is rather long (78 pages) and I admit that I didn’t read it all. The 7-page executive summary giv...

POST 01083E : POLIO ERADICATION 24 April 2007 Sending two articles through Child Survival Update recently, Robert Davis (mailto:[email protected]) wrote : "The costs of eradicating poliomyelitis from the remaining infected countries, while high in the short term, are much lower than the lo...

POST 01081E : BCG EFFICACY QUESTIONED Follow-up on Posts 01070E (http://listes.ulaval.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=i ... org&P=1144) and 01076E (http://listes.ulaval.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=i ... .org&P=406) 18 April 2007 NOTE : The link to the PATH’s evaluation of a new refrigerator, in the previ...

POST 01076E : BCG EFFICACY QUESTIONED Follow-up on Post 01070E (http://listes.ulaval.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=i ... org&P=1144) 9 April 2007 Samuel Kamau (mailto:[email protected]) from Kenya sends these comments on the news about BCG effectiveness, followed by some of my own comments....

POST 01070E : BCG EFFICACY QUESTIONED 27 March 2007 NOTE : Most of you will have picked up the error in the link to the article on the ethics of compulsory vaccination. It is not even the first time I make this same mistake, a "w" instead of an "e" in the word technet. My apologies! The ...

POST 01023E : POLIOMYELITIS ERADICATION : MATERIAL OF INTEREST 9 December 2006 We are sending you six documents of great interest on the polio situation in the world. We are again thanking Robert Davis and Evelyn Chege who sent them in Tech Updates. To evaluate potential consequences of a...

POST 00952E : TECHNICAL ISSUES ON POLIO IN NEPAL Follow-up on Posts 00942E and 00947E 11 July 2006 Anthony Battersby (mailto:[email protected]) from the United Kingdom raises some technical issues following Dr. Suvedi's contribution and Rudolf Tangermann's response. I may have misinterpre...

POST 00945E : MATERIAL OF INTEREST 24 June 2006 You will find below, first a slightly modified message from Robert Davis (mailto:[email protected]) from UNICEF/ESARO drawing our attention to the revised WHO guidelines on vaccination coverage surveys published in 2005, recently circulate...

POST 00937E : THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE Follow-up on Posts 00917E, 00923E and 00931E 8 June 2006 This posting contains five contributions to the discussion. The first comes from Patrick Isingoma (mailto:[email protected]) from Uganda, followed by that of Anthony Battersby (mailto:FBA...

POST 00931E : THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE Follow-up on Posts 00917E and 00923E 27 May 2006 This posting contains three contributions. First Anthony Battersby (mailto:[email protected]) from the United Kingdom, defends further his ideas. Then Mogens Munck (mailto:[email protected]) from Spai...

POST 00917E : THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE 27 April 2006 Anthony Battersby (mailto:[email protected]) from the United Kingdom, shares thoughts and opinions on polio eradication. Post 00799E presented a series of articles on the merits or otherwise of eradicating polio. Unless I have missed it ...

POST 00882E : GLOBAL PLAN TO STOP TB 30 January 2006 Last Friday 27 January 2006, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and Bill Gates called on world leaders to rally behind a major new action plan ...

POST 00877E : COMMENTS ON HEPB ARTICLE Follow-up on Post 00875E 12 January 2006 Anil Varshney (mailto:[email protected]) from India shares some comments on the article by Hipgrave et al. Comments on articles are seldom submitted to the forum but are quite welcome. Dear All, The findi...

POST 00874E : WHAT IS A POLIO CASE? 5 January 2006 From a recently published article, Anthony Battersby (mailto:[email protected]) from the UK, asks some questions about polio that many of you may also have, unless quite familiar with polio eradication. Christopher Maher (mailto:maherc@who...