Communication for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea Control and New Vaccine Introduction
by S Rozario

Today, pneumonia and diarrhoea remain the leading child-killers, especially in disadvantaged communities with limited access to sanitation, clean water, good nutrition and health services, and where deaths often go unrecorded.

Newly available vaccines against pneumococcus and rotavirus, the leading causes of pneumonia and diarrhoea, offer new hope in saving children’s lives. However, as the new vaccines will not protect children against all causes of pneumonia and diarrhoea, the combination of immunization with other interventions, including intensified nutrition, hygiene and sanitation, is what will maximize their impact.

Communication is key to ensure that individuals and communities will not only rely on immunization to protect children against pneumonia and diarrhoea, but that they also adopt the desired healthy practices that have been shown to offer essential protection to a child’s health, such as timely attendance at routine immunization sessions, early and exclusive breast-feeding, hand-washing with soap, provision of appropriate home-care, and prompt care-seeking in response to ‘danger-signs’.

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Contribute to the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management
by Zoe Sanders

Emerald Group Publishing is delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new Journal for 2011:  Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Co-edited by Dr. Gyöngyi Kovács and Professor Karen Spens, Hanken School of Economics, Finland, the journal will publish state-of-the-art research in the field of humanitarian and development aid logistics and supply chain management. Logistics and supply chain management related articles in the context of disaster relief and development aid are of equal interest to the journal.

The journal will publish papers based upon different methodological approaches, and submissions utilizing both quantitative and qualitative approaches will therefore be welcomed.

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Global Immunization News (February 2010)
by Erin Sparrow

The highlights of the February issue of Global Immunization News include a wrap up of the New and Underutilized Vaccines Implementation Retreat, the Routine Immunization Review Meeting held in Geneva, the Global Measles Management Meeting, Haiti’s Plan for Vaccination Activities Post-Disaster and other updates.

The newsletter and previous versions are also available online at the following websites:
 
www.who.int/immunization/gin
www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/publications/gin.php

Please send any information you would like included in the next issue to sparrowe@who.int, by noon, Wednesday 24 March 2010.

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