Vocational training schemes in south London have been improved

Costs of eliminating HIV in South Africa have been underestimated.

In 2009, Reuben Granich and colleagues reported, on the basis of a modelling study, that HIV could be eliminated in South Africa by use of a universal “test and treat” strategy. The strategy involved annual testing of all 32 million adults; immediate antiretroviral therapy for those who test positive, irrespective of their CD4+ cell count or stage of infection; and a package of prevention inter...

Vocational Training

In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases the unemployment duration of non-participants, an effect neglected in programme evaluations. We propose a “control function” estimator accounting for variable treatment effects and ide...

Simulation-based training in anaesthesia: have we been training non-technical skills?

An additional mechanism of visual loss Editor—I would like to thank Mongardon and colleagues for submitting a very interesting case report on a devastating (and, fortunately, rather uncommon) complication after cardiac surgery. In addition to the two mechanisms of visual loss proposed by the authors (hypotension coupled with increased pressure in the venous drainage system of the eye), I think ...

Vocational education and training

Vocational Training For Defense

A L M O S T I M M E D I A T E L Y fo l lowing the i n i t i a l an nouncement t h a t the country was going to embark on a defense program came simultaneous demands for workers f rom a l l parts of the country and f r om a great var ie ty of industries. A lmost overnight , some communities which were experiencing widespread unemployment found their supplies of certain types of workers exhausted...