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Issue 39, 25 January 2010
 
Editorial Note

Issue 39 includes a selection of the presentations made on Healthcare Waste Management at the 2009 SIGN meeting. In addition, Jhilmil Bhal sends us the latest version of the WHO position paper on rotavirus

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The annual meeting of the Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN) was held from 30 November to 2 December 2009. The following are some of the presentations on Healthcare Waste Management:

  1. HCWM--10 Years: Yves Chartier
  2. PATH's Work in HCWM
  3. Resource Mobilization for Effective Waste Management: Ruma Tavorath
  4. Electronic Monitoring Tool for HCWM: Nancy Mueller
  5. Assessment and Formulation of a Strategy on HCWM: Ute Pieper

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by Erin Sparrow

Please note that an update to WHO's position paper on rotavirus vaccines published in 2007 (see http://www.who.int/wer/2007/wer8232.pdf) has been published in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record in English and French —see http://www.who.int/wer/ 2009/wer8451_52.pdf. The Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish translations of the document will be posted on http://www.who.int/immunization/documents/ positionpapers/en/index.html in due course.

Key recommendations from the update are as follows:
WHO recommends that rotavirus vaccine for infants should be included in all national immunization programmes. In countries where diarrhoeal deaths account for ≥10% of mortality among children aged <5 years, the introduction of the vaccine is strongly recommended. WHO recommends that the first dose of either RotaTeq or Rotarix be administered at age 6–15 weeks. The maximum age for administering the last dose of either vaccine should be 32 weeks.

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