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Vaccination Week Initiative in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Injection Site Abscesses: Images

Issue 38, 18 January 2010

Editorial Note

More on initiatives promoting immunization, this time from Nahad Sadr-Azodi in the EMRO. And a request for images on injection site abscesses from Robert Chen.

A request also goes out to all TechNet21 readers to scan through their albums and send us images related to immunization delivery or cold rooms or immunization technology, in fact any image related to immunization that we could use in the digest, which is despatched every week. The image size should be at least 300 x 500 pixels with a resolution of 72 dpi. Image formats could be JPG/Tiff. Looking forward to receiving a flood of responses from readers.

Vaccination Week Initiative in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
by Nahad Sadr-Azodi

The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, in cooperation with United Nations Children's Fund, is launching the inaugural Vaccination Week in the Eastern Mediterranean Region initiative during the week of 24-30 April 2010. Vaccination Week is an annual region-wide initiative celebrating and promoting immunization through advocacy, education and communication activities. We are joining the WHO Regions of the Americas and Europe, and their nearly 100 participating countries in an effort towards establishing a Global Vaccination Week possibly in 2011.

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Injection Site Abscesses: Images
by Robert Chen

For a study assessing injection site abscesses in a developing country, photos are needed for the training material. The challenge is that injection site abscesses are uncommon in the developed world, where cameras are common, and more common in less developed settings, where cameras have been less common. Please let me know if you have any such photos (that) you're willing to share.

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