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CIAO DATE: 08/07
Volume 12, Number 3, March 2007
Full Issue (PDF, 51 pages, 3.5 MB)
Contents
About This Issue (PDF, 1 pages, 121 KB)
The Editors
Introduction (PDF, 2 pages, 165 KB)
Mike Leavitt, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Reaching Every Child (PDF, 4 pages, 211 KB)
Kent Hill, Assistant Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
The United States has a longstanding commitment to assist other nations in achieving the lifesaving benefits of vaccines and is working with the international community toward that goal.
The Promise of Vaccines (PDF, 3 pages, 292 KB)
Osman David Mansoor, Senior Advisor for New Vaccines, U.N. Children’s Fund.
Vaccines are the most cost-effective means of ensuring childhood survival. Immunization rates are rising steadily as health officials work to reach more children every year.
Success in Measles Control (PDF, 1 pages, 106 KB)
A multipartner campaign to reduce measles mortality achieves a five-year goal sparing children from the most infectious of diseases.
One Dose at a Time (PDF, 5 pages, 351 KB)
An interview with Vance Dietz, Steven Stewart, and Karen Wilkins, Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Three international public health experts discuss how developing nations work to establish and maintain routine childhood immunization programs.
Stopping Polio Forever: A Photo Story (PDF, 6 pages, 912 KB)
Charlene Porter, managing editor, Global issues
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has made tremendous progress in reducing the occurrence of polio. Massive vaccination rallies known as National Immunization Days have helped achieve the goal.
How the World Fights the Flu (PDF, 4 pages, 657 KB)
Wenqing Zhang, Project Leader for Influenza Virological Surveillance and Vaccine Viruses of the Global Influenza Programme, World Health Organization
The World Health Organization coordinates a global effort to monitor seasonal and avian influenza emergencies with an eye toward production of vaccines that can help prevent and ease illness affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide each year.
Vaccines in the 21st Century (PDF, 2 pages, 112 KB)
Stanley A. Plotkin, Executive Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of sanofi pasteur and senior editor of Vaccines
The inventor of the rubella vaccine offers a forecast of likely progress in vaccinology in the first decades of the 21st century.
Ending Disease, Ending Poverty (PDF, 5 pages, 304 KB)
An interview with Lee Hall, Chief, Parasitology and International Program, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health; and Peter J. Hotez, Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine at the George Washington University and Sabin Vaccine Institute
Overcoming diseases that have plagued humankind for millennia and are persistent causes of poverty is within the reach of 21st century medical science, experts say.
What Are Neglected Tropical Diseases? (PDF, 4 pages, 331 KB)
Definitions and descriptions of poverty-causing diseases.
Ensuring the Quality and Safety of Vaccines (PDF, 3 pages, 253 KB)
A World Health Organization Fact Sheet
Concerns About Vaccine Safety (PDF, 3 pages, 133 KB)
The National Network for Immunization Information addresses risks and safety.
Additional Reading
Bibliography (PDF, 1 pages, 81 KB)
Internet Sites (PDF, 2 pages, 93 KB)