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Vaccines and Global Health: The Week in Review14 June 2014Center for Vaccine Ethics & Policy (CVEP)

This weekly summary targets news, events, announcements, articles and research in thevaccine and global health ethics and policy space and is aggregated from key governmental,NGO, international organization and industry sources, key peer-reviewed journals, and othermedia channels. This summary proceeds from the broad base of themes and issues monitoredby the Center for Vaccine Ethics & Policy in its work: it is not intended to be exhaustive in itscoverage. Vaccines: The Week in Review is also posted in pdf form and as a set of blog posts at

http://centerforvaccineethicsandpolicy.wordpress.com/.This blog allows full-text searching ofover 3,500 entries.

Comments and suggestions should be directed toDavid R. Curry, MSEditor andExecutive DirectorCenter for Vaccine Ethics & [email protected]

Media Release:PAHO/WHO steps up surveillance and information exchange duringFIFA World CupMonitoring helps health authorities respond effectively and promptly to potential health risksduring mass-attendance eventsExcerpt

Washington, D.C., 11 June 2014 (PAHO/WHO) - The Pan American Health Organization/WorldHealth Organization (PAHO/WHO) is conducting an enhanced surveillance and activatingmechanisms of information exchange about public health events during the 2014 FIFA WorldCup, which takes place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July.

The goal is to rapidly detect any events that could have an impact on regional or global publichealth, enabling health authorities to take timely and appropriate action to respond to risks andminimize any impact on peoples health.

In the coming days, hundreds of thousands of people will travel to Brazil to attend soccermatches taking place in 12 World Cup venues. Intensified international travel and populationmovement associated with mass events such as the World Cup can have an impact in the hostcountry as well as at the regional or global level. For the host country, mass gatherings canoverload health services because of the large numbers of people, and visitors from other partsof the world can potentially import or export infectious diseases.

To ensure early detection of public health events, PAHO/WHO is intensifying disease andevent surveillance from 5 June to 25 July. The increased surveillance will cover not only events
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in Brazil but also events elsewhere in the Americas and in other regions that could have animpact on the World Cup.

PAHO/WHO is sharing daily reports generated through this stepped-up surveillance withhealth authorities in Brazil and in other countries of the Americas and worldwide.A series ofhealth resources for travelersto the 2014 FIFA World Cup is available on the

PAHO/WHO website. The resources include aninteractive mapwith health information relatedto cities hosting the World Cup games

UNICEF Watch [to 14 June2014]http://www.unicef.org/media/media_71724.html::Measles threatens thousands of Somali childrenJoint UNICEF/WHO Press ReleaseExcerpt/GAROWE/HARGEISA, Somalia, 10 June 2014Outbreaks of measles in several regions have

left thousands of Somali children at risk of disability or death if they are not urgently vaccinatedagainst the highly contagious disease.

In March and April 2014 there were over 1350 suspected cases of measlesfour times thenumber seen during the same period last year and nearly 1000 cases were reported in Mayalone.

In response, the health authorities, with the support of UNICEF, the World HealthOrganization (WHO) and partners, conducted small scale vaccination campaigns and will carryout larger emergency campaigns in the most affected areas of Bari, Nugaal, Mudug, Banadirand Lower Juba in June targeting half a million children under five.We have a very high number of malnourished Somali children, said Sikander Khan, UNICEF

Somalia Representative. Malnourished children here are moresusceptible to diseaseand aremore likely to die or suffer lifelong disability such as blindness, deafness or brain damage as aresult of contracting measles.

Two decades of conflict have decimated Somalias health sector, leaving the country withsome of the worst health and nutrition indicators in the world. An estimated one in five childrendies before their fifth birthdaywith measles as one of the main causes.This is extremely alarming. There is a very poor health care system due to the years of

conflict, said Dr. Ghulam Popal, WHO Somalia Representative. We know there have beenextremely low immunization rates among Somali children and we need to urgently ensure asmany as possible are vaccinated.

It is estimated that less than a third of Somali children under one year were vaccinatedagainst measles in 2013 through routine immunization services. In some areas in central andsouthern Somalia insecurity has meant that immunization coverage is as low as 15 per cent.

WHO and UNICEF say that a nationwide measles campaigns need to be urgently conducted toprevent thousands of avoidable deaths. This would involve vaccinating about 5 million children

and youth from 9 months to 15 years at an estimated cost of US$ 9 million.

WHO: Global Alert and Response (GAR) Disease Outbreak News [to 14 June2014]http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/:: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)update13 June 2014

The National IHR Focal Points of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and theIslamic Republic of Iran recently reported additional laboratory-confirmed cases of infection
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with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to WHO.:: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)update11 June 2014:: Ebola virus disease, West Africaupdate10 June 2014

WHO does not recommend any travel or trade restrictions be applied to Guinea, Liberia, orSierra Leone based on the current information available for this event.

:: Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virusupdate10 June 2014

WHO:Update on MERS-CoV transmission from animals to humans, and interimrecommendations for at-risk groups13 June 2014[Excerpt]

Over the past year, several investigations into the animal source of MERS-CoV have beenconducted. MERS-CoV genetic sequences from humans and camels in Egypt, Oman, Qatar andSaudi Arabia demonstrate a close link between the virus found in camels and that found inpeople in the same geographic area. These and other studies have found MERS-CoV antibodiesin camels in Africa and the Middle East.

Preliminary results from an ongoing investigation in Qatar show that people working closely

with camels (e.g. farm workers, slaughterhouse workers and veterinarians) may be at higherrisk of MERS-CoV infection than people who do not have regular close contacts with camels. InQatar and several other countries, animals, including goats, cows, sheep, water buffalo, swineand wild birds, have been tested for antibodies to MERS-CoV, with no positive results. Theabsence of antibodies in these animals indicates that the likelihood of other animals having asubstantial role in transmission of MERS-CoV is very low. These studies provide evidence thatcamels are a likely primary source of the MERS-CoV that is infecting humans.

The current pattern of disease appears to be the result of repeated introductions of the virusfrom camels to people, resulting in limited human-to-human transmission, but not in sustainedtransmission. Therefore, discovery of the routes of transmission, whether direct or indirect,between camels and people, is critical to stopping transmission of the virus

POLIO [to 14 June 2014]GPEI Update: Polio this week -As of 11 June 2014Global Polio Eradication InitiativeEditors Excerptand text boldingFull report:http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx:: The Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs) on Polio Eradication in Afghanistan and Pakistan metin Islamabad, Pakistan, last week. The TAG recognized the important progress in Afghanistanand concluded that the country is in a strong position to interrupt endemic transmission of thevirus in 2014, provided the country addresses the remaining challenges and risks. These includeensuring the programme is a priority with the new government, reaching children in

inaccessible areas, focusing on missed children, strengthening cross-border and transitvaccination and preparing for the displacement of people from infected areas of Pakistan.:: In terms of polio eradication in Pakistan, the TAG concluded that the country isnot in a position to interrupt transmission without radical change in reservoir areasincluding Federally Administered Tribal Areas FATA, Peshawar and Karachi.To putthe program back on the path to polio eradication, the TAG recommended full politicalcommitment and ownership, mobilization of national assets including the army andadministrative machinery, restoration of vaccination in FATA and addressing insecurity and
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chronic gaps in reservoirs and high risk areas. The TAG also recommended that all provincesintegrate communications and social mobilization activities in their planning and operations.Nigeria:: Three new cVDPV2 cases were reported in the past week including two cases from DamboaLGA, Borno state, and one case from the previously uninfected Jere LGA, Borno state. The mostrecent cVDPV2 case had onset of paralysis on 3 May from Damboa LGA, Borno state. The totalnumber of cVDPV2 cases for 2014 is seven.Pakistan:: Four new WPV1 cases were reported in the past week including two cases from NorthWaziristan, Federally Administered Tribal AreasFATA, and two cases from Bannu, KhyberPakhtunkhwaKP. The most recent WPV1 case had onset of paralysis on 19 May from Bannu.The total number of WPV1 cases reported from Pakistan for 2014 is 75.Central Africa:: A new WPV1 case was reported this week from Equatorial Guinea. The case is from Ebebiyindistrict, Kie Ntem province, and had onset of paralysis on 3 April. The total number of WPV1cases in Equatorial Guinea in 2014 is four. The cases are linked to an ongoing outbreak inneighboring Cameroon, which has reported four cases in 2013 and three cases in 2014. The

most recent NIDs in Equatorial Guinea took place on 28 May and the next rounds of activitiesare planned for mid-July and August.

The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) for 13 June 2014, vol. 89, 24 (pp. 257264) includes::: Progress towards measles eliminationEastern Mediterranean Region, 20082012http://www.who.int/entity/wer/2014/wer8924.pdf?ua=1

CDC/MMWR Watch [to 14 June2014]http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_wk.htmlMMWR for June 13, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 23includes:::Progress Toward Measles EliminationEastern Mediterranean Region, 20082012::Announcement: Recommendation Regarding Increasing Vaccination Rates Through Use ofImmunization Information SystemsCommunity Preventive Services Task ForceExcerptTask Force Finding

TheCommunity Preventive Services Task Forcerecommendsimmunization informationsystems (IIS) on the basis of strong evidence of effectiveness in increasing vaccination rates.

Evidence is considered strong based on the findings from 108 published studies and 132conference abstracts showing that IIS are effective in increasing vaccination rates and reducingvaccine-preventable disease through their capabilities to:

:: Create or support effective interventions such as client reminder and recall systems, providerassessment and feedback, and provider reminders:: Determine client vaccination status for decisions made by clinicians, health departments, andschools:: Guide public health responses to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease:: Inform assessments of vaccination coverage, missed vaccination opportunities, invalid doseadministration, and disparities in vaccination coverage; and:: Facilitate vaccine management and accountability
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Read the fullTask Force Finding and Rationale Statementfor details including implementationissues, possible added benefits, potential harms, and evidence gaps

Global Fund Watch [to 14 June2014]http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/mediacenter/announcements/Media ReleaseUNITAID and the Global Fund Announce Formal Collaboration13 June 2014Excerpt

GENEVAUNITAID and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have signeda collaboration agreement around a market-shaping agenda to maximize the value for moneyfrom each organization's investments.

Both organizations invest to increase access to health products for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosisand malaria for those who need them most. UNITAID focuses on global product markets,investing to speed up and increase access to better adapted and more affordable commodities,and Global Fund investments support countries in efforts to expand health programs, including

health products.The new agreement focuses on three main areas: More rapid development and uptake of

high-quality adapted medicines and diagnostics geared toward increasing access forunderserved populations; Promoting simpler treatments, including fixed-dose combinations andpoint-of-care diagnostics that improve adherence and reduce patients' pill burden; Improvingvalue for money of donor investments by achieving greater market improvements with resultingpublic health impact.

European Medicines Agency Watch [to 14 June2014]http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/European Medicines Agency agrees policy on publication of clinical trial data withmore user-friendly amendments12 June 2014The European Medicines Agency Management Board on 12 June 2014 agreed the policy onpublication of clinical trial data, together with more user-friendly amendments proposed by EMAExecutive Director Guido Rasi, that will not only allow the Agency to proactively publish clinicaltrial data that are submitted as part of marketing authorisation applications, but also give thepossibility to download, save and print the trial data for academic and non-commercial researchpurposes

GAVI Watch[to 14 June2014]http://www.gavialliance.org/library/news/press-releases/

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WHO: Humanitarian Health Action [to 14 June2014]http://www.who.int/hac/en/No new relevant content identified.

UN Watch[to 14 June2014]
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Selected meetings, press releases, and press conferences relevant to immunization, vaccines,infectious diseases, global health, etc.http://www.un.org/en/unpress/No new relevant content identified.

Industry Watch [to 14 June2014]Selected media releases and other selected content from industry.

Reports/Research/Analysis/Commentary/Conferences/Meetings/BookWatch/TendersVaccines and Global Health: The Week in Reviewhas expanded its coverage of new reports,books, research and analysis published independent of the journal channel covered in JournalWatch below. Our interests span immunization and vaccines, as well as global public health,health governance, and associated themes. If you would like to suggest content to be includedin this service, please contact David Curry at:[email protected]

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Journal WatchVaccines and Global Health: The Week in Reviewcontinues its weekly scanning of key peer-reviewed journals to identify and cite articles, commentary and editorials, books reviews andother content supporting our focus on vaccine ethics and policy. Journal Watchis notintended to be exhaustive, but indicative of themes and issues the Center is activelytracking. We selectively provide full text of some editorial and comment articles that arespecifically relevant to our work. Successful access to some of the links provided may requiresubscription or other access arrangement unique to the publisher.

If you would like to suggest other journal titles to include in this service, please contact David

Curry at:[email protected]

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 14,Issue 6, 2014http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/current[Reviewed earlier]

American Journal of Infection ControlVol 42 | No. 6 | June 2014 | Pages 585-696http://www.ajicjournal.org/current[Reviewed earlier]

American Journal of Preventive MedicineVolume 46, Issue 6, p543-660, e53-e60 June 2014http://www.ajpmonline.org/current[Reviewed earlier]
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American Journal of Public HealthVolume 104, Issue S3 (June 2014)http://ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/currentIssue Focus: Health of American Indians and Alaska Natives[Reviewed earlier]

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and HygieneJune 2014; 90 (6)http://www.ajtmh.org/content/current[No relevant content]

Annals of Internal Medicine3 June 2014, Vol. 160. No. 11http://annals.org/issue.aspx

[No relevant content]

BMC Health Services Research(Accessed 14 June2014)http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmchealthservres/content[No new relevant content]

BMC Medical Ethics(Accessed 14 June2014)http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedethics/contentDebateChild's assent in research: Age threshold or personalisation?Marcin Waligora, Vilius Dranseika and Jan Piasecki

Author AffiliationsBMC Medical Ethics 2014, 15:44 doi:10.1186/1472-6939-15-44Published: 13 June 2014

Abstract (provisional)Background

Assent is an important ethical and legal requirement of paediatric research. Unfortunately, thereare significant differences between the guidelines on the details of assent.Discussion

What often remains unclear is the scope of the assent, the procedure for acquiring it, and theway in which children's capacity to assent is determined. There is a general growing tendencythat suggests that the process of assent should be personalised, that is, tailored to a particularchild. This article supports the idea of personalisation. However, we also propose placing limitson personalisation by introducing a suggested requirement of assent starting at a school-agethreshold. In some situations RECs/IRBs and researchers could reduce the suggested threshold.
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BMC Public Health(Accessed 14 June2014)http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpublichealth/content[No new relevant content]

British Medical BulletinVolume 110 Issue 1 June 2014http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/current[Reviewed earlier]

British Medical Journal14 June 2014 (Vol 348, Issue 7962)http://www.bmj.com/content/348/7962[No relevant content]

Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationVolume 92, Number 6, June 2014, 385-464http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/92/6/en/Special theme: BRICS and global health[Reviewed earlier]

Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID)Volume 58 Issue 12 June 15, 2014http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/current[Reviewed earlier]

Clinical TherapeuticsVolume 36, Issue 5, p613-816 May 2014http://www.clinicaltherapeutics.com/current[Reviewed earlier]

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation(Accessed 14 June2014)http://www.resource-allocation.com/

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Current Opinion in Infectious DiseasesJune 2014 - Volume 27 - Issue 3 pp: v-v 211-302http://journals.lww.com/co-infectiousdiseases/pages/currenttoc.aspx[Reviewed earlier]
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Developing World Bioethics

April 2014 Volume 14, Issue 1 Pages iiii, 157http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dewb.2014.14.issue-1/issuetoc[Reviewed earlier]

Development in PracticeVolume 24,Issue 3, 2014http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cdip20/current[No relevant content]

Emerging Infectious DiseasesVolume 20, Number 6June 2014http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm[Reviewed earlier]

The European Journal of Public HealthVolume 24 Issue 3 June 2014http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/current[Reviewed earlier]

EurosurveillanceVolume 19, Issue 22, 05 June 2014http://www.eurosurveillance.org/Public/Articles/Archives.aspx?PublicationId=11678[Website unavailable]

Global Health: Science and Practice (GHSP)May 2014 | Volume 2 | Issue 2http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/current[No relevant content]

Globalization and Health[Accessed 14 June2014]http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/

CommentaryHealth diplomacy: a new approach to the Muslim world?Suleman M, Ali R and Kerr DJGlobalization and Health 2014, 10:50 (13 June 2014)ResearchMobile health for non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematicreview of the literature and strategic framework for researchBloomfield GS, Vedanthan R, Vasudevan L, Kithei A, Were M and Velazquez EJ
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Globalization and Health 2014, 10:49 (13 June 2014)ResearchCommunity empowerment and involvement of female sex workers in targetedsexual and reproductive health interventions in Africa: a systematic reviewMoore L, Chersich MF, Steen R, Reza-Paul S, Dhana A, Vuylsteke B, Lafort Y and Scorgie FGlobalization and Health 2014, 10:47 (10 June 2014)ResearchSystematic review of facility-based sexual and reproductive health services forfemale sex workers in AfricaDhana A, Luchters S, Moore L, Lafort Y, Roy A, Scorgie F and Chersich MGlobalization and Health 2014, 10:46 (10 June 2014)

Global Public HealthVolume 9,Issue 5, 2014http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgph20/.Uq0DgeKy-F9#.U4onnCjDU1w[Reviewed earlier]

Health AffairsJune 2014; Volume 33, Issue 6http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/currentTheme: Economics Of Health Care: Costs, Savings & Value[Reviewed earlier]

Health and Human RightsVolume 16, Issue 1http://www.hhrjournal.org/Climate Justice and the Right to Health A Special IssueForewordMary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate JusticeExcerpt

In recent years, climate justice is emerging as a discipline that addresses the interlinkedchallenges of climate change, human rights, and development. At a time when the need formultidisciplinary research is gaining ground, climate justice provides a useful framing forinterdisciplinary collaborations.

Climate justice highlights the impacts of climate change on the vulnerable, marginalized, andpoor, who are disproportionally affected by extreme weather events, such as floods, storms,and droughts, and slow onset events, such as sea level rise and glacial melt. They are the

people who have their homes destroyed, face increasing struggles to feed themselves and theirfamilies, and are more susceptible to diseases while having their access to health carediminished.

Climate change is already undermining many of their basic human rightsto food and water,to shelter and health. Climate justice points out that the undermining of these essential rights isan injusticelargely because those who are most affected by the negative impacts are leastresponsible for the causes of the problem. The concept shows how global development issuesand climate change are inextricably linked, as for example when the incidence of a disease like
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malaria, that we have been making progress on eradicating, starts to rise again due to climaticchanges.

Articles in this special issue examine the disproportionate impacts of climate change onvulnerable groups, including indigenous peoples. A case is made for climate change mitigationpolicies informed by human rights and with clear health and equity co-benefits. The linksbetween climate justice and the right to health are presented, including an analysis of the linksbetween the right to food and the right to health in the context on increasing dependency onfood aid of low nutritional value. Several papers present a strong case for human rights lawguiding procedural responses to climate change and its negative impacts on health.

It is important at this juncture, with two international processes working on issues ofhuman development and climate change coming to conclusion in 2015, that the value of aclimate justice approach is demonstrated and used to inform these policy frameworks. Thisspecial edition is a welcome contribution to this endeavor.

Health Economics, Policy and LawVolume 9 - Issue 03 - July 2014

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Health Policy and PlanningVolume 29 Issue 3 May 2014http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/current[Reviewed earlier]

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics(formerly Human Vaccines)June 2014 Volume 10, Issue 6http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/vaccines/toc/volume/10/issue/6/[Reviewed earlier]

Infectious Agents and Cancerhttp://www.infectagentscancer.com/content[Accessed 14 June2014][No new relevant content]

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

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International Journal of EpidemiologyVolume 43 Issue 3 June 2014http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
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The non-specific effects of vaccines and other childhood interventions: thecontribution of INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance SystemsOsman Sankoh1,2,3,*,Paul Welaga1,4,Cornelius Debpuur1,4,Charles Zandoh1,5,StephneyGyaase1,5,Mary Atta Poma1,6,Martin Kavao Mutua1,7,SM Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi1,8,CesarioMartins1,9,Eric Nebie1,10,Moubassira Kagon1,10,Jacques BO Emina1 andPeter Aaby1,9

Author Affiliations1INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana, 2School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg, South Africa, 3Faculty of Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, VietNam, 4Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo, Ghana, 5KintampoHealth Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana, 6Dodowa Health ResearchCentre, Ghana Health Service, Dodowa, Ghana, 7African Population and Health ResearchCentre, Nairobi, Kenya, 8Chakaria Community Health Project Community Health Division,ICDDRB, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 9Bandim Health Project, Bandim, Guin-Bissau and10Centre de Recherche en Sant de Nouna (CRSN), Nouna, Burkina Faso

Accepted April 3, 2014.Abstract

Most childhood interventions (vaccines, micronutrients) in low-income countries are justified

by their assumed effect on child survival. However, usually the interventions have only beenstudied with respect to their disease/deficiency-specific effects and not for their overall effectson morbidity and mortality. In many situations, the population-based effects have been verydifferent from the anticipated effects; for example, the measles-preventive high-titre measlesvaccine was associated with 2-fold increased female mortality; BCG reduces neonatal mortalityalthough children do not die of tuberculosis in the neonatal period; vitamin A may be associatedwith increased or reduced child mortality in different situations; effects of interventions maydiffer for boys and girls. The reasons for these and other contrasts between expectations andobservations are likely to be that the immune system learns more than specific prevention froman intervention; such training may enhance or reduce susceptibility to unrelated infections.INDEPTH member centres have been in an ideal position to document such additional non-specific effects of interventions because they follow the total population long term. It isproposed that more INDEPTH member centres extend their routine data collection platform tobetter measure the use and effects of childhood interventions. In a longer perspective,INDEPTH may come to play a stronger role in defining health research issues of relevance tolow-income countries.Commentary: Potential implications of non-specific effects of childhood vaccinesHarshpal Singh Sachdev

Author AffiliationsDepartment of Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science andResearch, B-16 Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi 110016, India.

AbstractThe World Health Organization states that: A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves

immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, itstoxins or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system torecognize the agent as foreign, destroy it, and remember it, so that the immune system canmore easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters.1 Thisstatement is in conformity with the usual scientific and lay perceptions that vaccines have onlyspecific disease-protective effects. However, historically it has been suspected that Vaccinia2and BCG vaccination3 confer protection against non-targeted infectious diseases. Emerging
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Volume 28 issue 3 - Latest Issuehttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1477-7266&show=latest[No relevant content]

Journal of Infectious DiseasesVolume 210 Issue 1 July 1, 2014http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/current[No relevant content]

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases (JGID)Volume 6 | Issue 2 Page Nos. 57-92 April-June 2014http://www.jgid.org/currentissue.asp?sabs=n[Reviewed earlier]

Journal of Immigrant and Minority HealthVolume 16, Issue 3, June 2014http://link.springer.com/journal/10903/16/3/page/1Special Topics in Immigrant Health: The Health of Indigenous Mayan Migrants from YucatnMxico[Reviewed earlier]

Journal of Medical EthicsJune 2014, Volume 40, Issue 6http://jme.bmj.com/content/current[No relevant content]

Journal of Medical MicrobiologyJune 2014; 63(Pt 6)http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/content/current[Reviewed earlier]

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (JPIDS)Volume 3 Issue 2 June 2014http://jpids.oxfordjournals.org/content/current

[Reviewed earlier]

Journal of PediatricsVol 164 | No. 6 | June 2014 | Pages 1245-1504http://www.jpeds.com/current[Reviewed earlier]
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Journal of Public Health Policy

Volume 35, Issue 2 (May 2014)http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/journal/v35/n2/index.html[Reviewed earlier]

Journal of the Royal Society InterfaceJuly 6, 2014; 11 (96)http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/current[No relevant content]

Journal of VirologyJuly 2014, volume 88, issue 13http://jvi.asm.org/content/current[No relevant content]

The LancetJun 14, 2014 Volume 383 Number 9934 p20192098 e1921http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/currentEditorialEnding sexual violence in conflict and beyondThe LancetToday's Lancet has a special focus on sexual violence in conflict to coincide with the first GlobalSummit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London, June 1014. War zone sexual violence andother forms of gender-based violence inflict extreme suffering and represent serious violationsof human rights. These crimes leave physical, psychological, social, and economic scars onindividuals, families, and communities. And shamefully, most of the perpetrators are neverbrought to justice.CommentMass gatherings medicine: international cooperation and progressZiad A Memishab,Alimuddin Zumlac,Brian McCloskeyd,David Heymannef,Abdullah A AlRabeeaha,Maurizio Barbeschig,Richard HortonhExcerpt

In July, 2012, we discussed plans to move the complex public health issues surrounding massgatherings into a formal scientific discipline, and to create a global network for mass gatheringsresearch, training, and capacity development.1,2We believed that it was important for thisnetwork to be led by Saudi Arabia, since the country has extensive experience through many

decades of managing millions of pilgrims from 184 countries at the largest yearly recurringreligious mass gathering in the worldthe Hajj. Subsequently, the Saudi Government andWHO3strongly supported mass gatherings medicine as a scientific discipline, establishing theSaudi Global Center for Mass Gathering Medicine (GCMGM), with its headquarters in Riyadh andmembership from other Gulf countries,4and a virtual research network linked with other WHOcollaborating centres for mass gatherings. This network has brought together global academicand public health institutions with complementary expertise to gather and translate the most
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appropriate public health policy evidence for use by countries that host, or plan to host, massgathering events

Mass gatherings medicine provides an opportunity to generate a wealth of knowledge andexpertise, and sharing the experiences of organisers can assist in shaping a positive legacy andprovide valuable lessons for organisers of future events. The value to planners of massgatherings and their governments in sharing best practices is clear, as is the need for newoperational research into mass gatherings, with systematic collection and analysis of data toinform planning activities for future events. Through provision of scientific evidence, theGCMGM aims to drive the best health promotion and prevention guidelines and practice,including health education for attendees of mass gatherings across different contexts. The Hajjprovides an ideal model for research into mass gatherings that recur yearly in the samelocation, and the very large sporting events provide a different context and complementaryopportunities for research and training. Substantial gaps in research remain, particularly inrelation to mass gatherings in low-resource settings and in unplanned or spontaneous massgatherings.Lancet Series mass gatherings medicineHajj: infectious disease surveillance and control

ProfZiad A Memish FRCPCabcd,ProfAlimuddin Zumla FRCPaef,Rafat F Alhakeem MDad,Abdullah Assiri MDd,Abdulhafeez Turkestani MDd,Khalid D Al Harby MDd,Mohamed AlyemniPhDd,Khalid Dhafar MDd,Philippe Gautret MDg,Maurizio Barbeschi PhDah,Brian McCloskeyMDai,ProfDavid Heymann MDajk,Abdullah A Al Rabeeah FRCSad,Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq FACPlmSummaryReligious festivals attract a large number of pilgrims from worldwide and are a potential risk forthe transmission of infectious diseases between pilgrims, and to the indigenous population. Thegathering of a large number of pilgrims could compromise the health system of the hostcountry. The threat to global health security posed by infectious diseases with epidemicpotential shows the importance of advanced planning of public health surveillance and responseat these religious events. Saudi Arabia has extensive experience of providing health care atmass gatherings acquired through decades of managing millions of pilgrims at the Hajj. In thisreport, we describe the extensive public health planning, surveillance systems used to monitorpublic health risks, and health services provided and accessed during Hajj 2012 and Hajj 2013that together attracted more than 5 million pilgrims from 184 countries. We also describe therecent establishment of the Global Center for Mass Gathering Medicine, a Saudi Governmentpartnership with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Gulf Co-operationCouncil states, UK universities, and public health institutions globally.London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: public health surveillance andepidemiologyBrian McCloskey FFPHab,Tina Endericks MBAb,Mike Catchpole FRCPc,Maria ZambonFRCPathd,Jim McLauchlin PhDe,Nandini Shetty FRCPathl,Rohini Manuel FRCPathl,Deborah

Turbitt FFPHl,Gillian Smith FFPHf,Paul Crook MScg,Ettore Severi MSch,Jane Jones MFPHi,Sue Ibbotson FFPHj,Roberta Marshall FFPHk,Catherine A H Smallwoodm,Nicolas Isla MScn,ProfZiad A Memish FRCPaop,Abdullah A Al-Rabeeah FRCSao,Maurizio Barbeschi PhDam,David L Heymann FMEDScialqr,Alimuddin Zumla FRCPastSummaryMass gatherings are regarded as potential risks for transmission of infectious diseases, andmight compromise the health system of countries in which they are hosted. The evidence forincreased transmission of infectious diseases at international sporting mass gatherings that
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attract many visitors from all over the world is not clear, and the evidence base for public healthsurveillance, epidemiology, and response at events such as the Olympics is small. However,infectious diseases are a recognised risk, and public health planning is, and should remain, acrucial part of the overall planning of sporting events. In this Series paper, we set out theplanning and the surveillance systems that were used to monitor public health risks during theLondon 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2012, and draw attention to thepublic health issuesinfectious diseases and chemical, radiation, and environmental hazardsthat arose. Although the absolute risk of health-protection problems, including infectiousdiseases, at sporting mass gatherings is small, the need for reassurance of the absence ofproblems is higher than has previously been considered; this could challenge conventionalpublic health surveillance systems. Recognition of the limitations of health-surveillance systemsneeds to be part of the planning for future sporting events.Euro 2012 European Football Championship Finals: planning for a health legacyCatherine A H Smallwood DPhila,Katherine G Arbuthnott BMBCha,Barbara Banczak-MysiakMDh,Mariya Borodina MDc,Ana Paula Coutinho MSce,Lara Payne-Hallstrm MScg,ElzbietaLipska MDi,Viktor Lyashko MDj,Miroslaw Miklasz MDl,Paulina Miskiewicz MDl,Dorit NitzanMDb,Igor Pokanevych MDb,Marek Posobkiewicz MDh,Gerald Rockenschaub MDf,

Malgorzata Sadkowska-Todys PhDk,Svetlana Sinelnikd,Daniel Smiley PhDc,Rysard TomialoicMScq,Volodimir Yurchenko MDd,ProfZiad A Memish FRCPCm,ProfDavid Heymann MDnop,Tina Endericks MBAr,Brian McCloskey FFPHr,ProfAlimuddin Zumla FRCPst,MaurizioBarbeschi PhDaSummaryThe revised international health regulations offer a framework that can be used by hostcountries to organise public health activities for mass gatherings. From June 8, to July 1, 2012,Poland and Ukraine jointly hosted the Union of European Football Associations EuropeanFootball Championship Finals (Euro 2012). More than 8 million people from around the worldcongregated to watch the games. Host countries and international public health agenciesplanned extensively to assess and build capacity in the host countries and to develop effectivestrategies for dissemination of public health messages. The effectiveness of public healthservices was maximised through rapid sharing of information between parties, early use ofnetworks of experienced individuals, and the momentum of existing national healthprogrammes. Organisers of future mass gatherings for sporting events should share bestpractice and their experiences through the WHO International Observer Program. Researchabout behaviour of large crowds is needed for crowd management and the evidence basetranslated into practice. A framework to measure and evaluate the legacy of Euro 2012 isneeded based on the experiences and the medium-term and long-term benefits of thetournament.

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