OBJECTIVE To assess the use and understanding of the Nutritional information Panel (NIP) of pre-packaged foods by Mexican consumers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire and an understanding test for NIP were applied to adult consumers in supermarkets of six cities in the Northern, Central, and Southern regions of Mexico. Data were analyzed by frequencies and Poisson regression models. RES...

Following the emergence and global spread of a novel H1N1 influenza virus in 2009, two A(H1N1)pdm/09 influenza vaccines produced from the A/California/07/09 H1N1 strain were selected and used for the national immunisation programme in the United Kingdom: an adjuvanted split virion vaccine and a non-adjuvanted whole virion vaccine. In this study, we assessed the immune responses generated in inb...

Immunisation protection includes vaccination programme that is very crucial to prevent the spread of disease among children or those with low immune systems. However, cases contagious diseases such as measles have increased dramatically in many countries around world, including Malaysia. This may be partly due rise certain groups movements do not believe efficacy vaccines. paper outlined scenar...

AIM Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunisation is well established as part of the South African national expanded programme for immunisation (EPI). The World Health Organization (WHO) currently recommends that BCG be given to all asymptomatic infants irrespective of HIV exposure at birth but does not recommend BCG vaccination for children with symptomatic HIV infection. This approach, however, ...

The prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the Philippines, as indicated by hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positivity, ranges from 2% to 16.5%, with an average of 12% in a study of rural villagers. Although mother to child transmission is a major route of HBV infection, other routes (particularly child to child transmission) play an important part after the first year o...

BACKGROUND People want to be well informed and ask for more information regarding their health. The public can use different sources (i.e. the Internet, health care providers, friends, family, television, radio, and newspapers) to access information about their health. Insight into the types and sources of vaccine related information that parents use, and reasons why they seek extra information...

Low population density in rural developing countries coupled with deficient infrastructure, weak state capacity and limited budgets makes increasing health care coverage difficult. Contracting-out mobile medical teams may be a helpful solution in this context. This article examines the impact of a large-scale programme of this type in Guatemala. We document large impacts on immunisation rates f...

1 Division of Paediatric Haematology/Oncology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2 Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3 Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, National Institute of Pediatrics (NIP), Mexico City, Mexico, 4 Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis...