Eliminating neonatal tetanus--an attainable goal.

Eliminating neonatal tetanus--an attainable goal.

Eliminating Neonatal Tetanus

HIV vaccines: an attainable goal?

Publication of the first efficacious large-scale HIV vaccine trial in 2009 prompted fresh hope that design of a protective vaccine against HIV may be achievable. In this review we explore the difficult task of eliciting protective immune responses to HIV and highlight the hurdles that vaccine design must still overcome.

Eliminating maternal and neonatal tetanus and closing the immunity gap.

[The process of eliminating neonatal Tetanus in Colombia, 1989-2005].

OBJECTIVE To describe the country's progress in eliminating neonatal tetanus based on the information obtained from epidemiologic surveillance. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective descriptive study of the epidemiological surveillance of neonatal tetanus in Colombia in the period ranging from 1989 to 2005. Available information was consulted regarding confirmations of this event of interest f...