Lessons from the Developing Countries

Lessons from measles vaccination in developing countries.

Difficulties in reaching and sustaining high enough coverage combined with the need to delay vaccination until most infants have lost maternal antibodies make it hard to control measles with standard titres of measles vaccine. Maternal antibodies are no longer a factor in infants after 9 months in developing countries and after 15 months in developed countries. It would be good to have a vacc...

Egovernment: Lessons from Implementation in Developing Countries

E-government applications from a large number of developing countries are reviewed. Different models of electronic delivery of services are compared. Delivery through conveniently located service centers where citizens are served by operators working on-line seems to be emerging as a popular model in countries with low penetration of Internet. Various elements that constitute readiness in imple...

Depression in developing countries: lessons from Zimbabwe.

Autism in Developing Countries: Lessons from Iran

Most research into Autism Spectrum Disorders has been conducted in affluent English-speaking countries which have extensive professional support services. This paper describes a series of investigations that was undertaken in Iran, and these findings, together with reviews of research in other low-income countries, are used to identify key lessons in three areas of service provision of particul...

developing countries: lessons from a live cholera vaccine

to control disease [1,2]. In the individual, they confer direct protection and, if high enough immunization coverage of a population is achieved, unimmunized people may also be protected, indirectly, through ‘herd immunity’ [3,4] as measles and polio vaccines, has interrupted indigenous transmission of those diseases in entire regions of the globe [5-8]. And one disease, smallpox, has been comp...