Sabin
A Constitutional Amendment for Deworming
2009
In February 2009, The Washington Post reported that three South American countries, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, have either launched or completed ambitious efforts to rewrite their constitutions in order to expand the social and economic rights guaranteed to its citizens [2]. The fact that millions of indigenous children and women in Latin America suffer from intestinal helminth infections is especially tragic because we can do something about these conditions through interventions that are astonishingly low cost [4].
World Pneumonia Day Rally
November 10, 2009
World Pneumonia Day
Over 400 people participated in a march and rally to commemorate the first-ever World Pneumonia Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Devastating Health and Economic Impact on the Member Nations of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
2009
by Peter J. Hotez
World Pneumonia Day
October 2, 2009
PACE is a supporter of World Pneumonia Day, the first global effort to combat a disease that kills a child every 15 seconds.
4th Regional Pneumococcal Symposium
2009
The 4th Regional Pneumococcal Symposium was held in Johannesburg, South Africa on 2-3 March 2009. Over 185 people from 38 countries, including 23 African countries, attended the two-day meeting in South Africa. During the symposium, participants heard presentations and discussed topics ranging from pneumococcal epidemiology to country perspectives on vaccine introduction and disease surveillance.
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