WORLD HEALTH DAY: APRIL 7
World Health Day is April 7, 2011. This year’s theme is ‘Antimicrobial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow’.
See: WHO site and http://antibioticawareness.ca/
AUDIO / VIDEO
Nature Podcast
A roundtable discussion examining venture capital funding levels for innovative science in biotech.
CANADA
H1N1 pandemic flawed: report
Associated Press Mar 10, 2011
Associated Press Mar 10, 2011
An expert panel commissioned by the World Health Organization to investigate its handling of the swine flu pandemic has slammed mistakes made by the UN body.
CTV Mar 9, 2011
Rapper K'naan said Canada must "step up" to save lives in the developing world and MPs heeded his call Wednesday, passing an NDP private member's bill that will make low-cost generic drugs more readily available to millions of people in Africa.
TorStar Mar 9, 2011
A groundswell of grandmothers, prominent Canadians and AIDS activists has forced Ottawa to deliver on a promise made eight years ago to send life-saving medicine to Africa.
INTERNATIONAL
Kaiser Mar 10, 2011
The Kaiser Family Foundation has released a summary of its November 2010 roundtable discussion focused on the women, girls and gender equality principle of the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI). This principle, the first of seven core principles of the GHI, aims to sharpen the focus on women and girls across U.S. government global health efforts.
Posted: 09 Mar 2011 10:16 AM PST
Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD, is an infectious diseases epidemiologist whose research involves understanding the evolving HIV epidemic in South Africa; factors influencing acquisition of HIV infection in adolescent girls; and sustainable strategies to introduce antiretroviral medicines in resource-constrained settings. She is an associate professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
A Q and A with Jon Cohen, Science Insider, 8 March 2011, 5:46 PM
Quarter Of Girls Missing Out On Life-Saving Vaccine: New Website
Medical News Today (press release) Mar 10, 2011
Medical News Today (press release) Mar 10, 2011
In a recent Australian study1 almost 3000 students in Year 10 and Year 12 were interviewed, of whom only 33% had heard of HPV.
BioMed Reports 09 March 2011
This article begins with an overview of the MRSA epidemic, and continues with a more detailed look at its destructive potential. We then examine different approaches that biotech companies have taken to developing treatments and a diagnostic test for it
This article begins with an overview of the MRSA epidemic, and continues with a more detailed look at its destructive potential. We then examine different approaches that biotech companies have taken to developing treatments and a diagnostic test for it
Nature Medicine 07 March 2011
LWEZA, UGANDA — On 19 January, health workers at an HIV care facility run by Mildmay Uganda began vaccinating 500 HIV-positive girls between the ages of 9 and 13 against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV). The campaign makes the clinic run by Mildmay, an international not-for-profit Christian organization, the first treatment center devoted to HIV to vaccinate for HPV in Uganda.
IHR REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING (WHO RESPONSE TO H1N1 PANDEMIC)
The final report isn’t out but the draft can be found by going to the preview page of the Fourth IHR Review Committee meeting (28-30 March 2011). There you will find the agenda of the meeting and a draft copy of the report that is up for discussion.
Related media:
Associated Press Mar 10, 2011 1:18 PM ET
An expert panel commissioned by the World Health Organization to investigate its handling of the swine flu pandemic has slammed mistakes made by the UN body and warned tens of millions could die if there is a severe flu outbreak in the future.
Agence France-Presse Mar 10, 2011 - 3 hours ago
GENEVA — A WHO-appointed group of experts published on Thursday a damning report on the UN agency's handling of the H1N1 flu pandemic, saying that it failed to issue timely guidance and that its flu plans needed revision.
Reuters Mar 10, 2011
Independent experts who examined the World Health Organisation's handling of the H1N1 pandemic said on Thursday they had found no evidence of drug industry influence on the U.N. agency's decision-making in the crisis
