The Communications officer for swine influenza of the World Health Organization, Gregory HARTL, will hold a press videoconference regarding swine influenza A/H1N1 infection on May 4 2009 at 13 GMT. For more click here
Charles Shey Wiysonge, Zainab Waggie, Linda Rhoda, Gregory Hussey - 14 April 2009
Effective communication should be an essential component of the EPI in Africa, because it could mobilise resources for national immunisation programmes, encourage wide participation and ownership of immunisation services among all stakeholders in each African country, and lead to positive changes in knowledge and attitudes towards immunisation in Africa.
The CDC recently released the Epi Info™ code to the public, making it the first Public Health Information Network (PHIN) application to go open source. Because the code is freely available, other developers and other entities can work with the Epi Info™ code to add features, contribute enhancements, and make it a much better product.
Tantchou Tchoumi Jacques Cabral, Alessandro Giamberti, Gianfranco Butera, Alessandro Frigiola, Ambassa Jean Claude
Tantchou et al report a case of ectopia cordis with successful surgical correction on a 7 months old child from northern Cameroon. Ectopia cordis, and Cantrell´s pentalogy are very rare congenit..
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The Kenya Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, the Ministry of Medical Services, the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), and the Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET) are co-sponsoring the 5th TEPHINET & 3rd AFENET Regional Scientific Conference, to be held in Mombasa, Kenya, from 31 August to 4 September 2009. Access the conference website
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By Adam Hochschild
This book gives a grim account of one of the worst human disaster in african colonial history. The King of Belgium established a rule of terror in his private property of Congo that would culminate in the deaths of an estimated 4 to 8 million indigenous people. A disaster of "Holocaust proportion" almost non existent in history books. The book sheds some light on the darkest side of African colonial history. Available from Mariner Books (October 1999)
