All you want to know about recent advances in vaccine development for diarrhoea World Immunisation Week 2021
To mark World Immunisation Week 2021 from 24 to 30 April, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Vaccine Centre is hosting a series of webinars. The theme this year is ‘Vaccines Bring Us Closer’. Each day of the week we focus on an important area of vaccine research, science and debate bringing together experts in the field. We end the week with the Vaccine Centre Annual Lecture on 30 April.
In this first event, we focus on new developments for vaccines against diarrhoeal illnesses which continue to kill over half a million young children each year. Dr Ed Parker will discuss Rotavirus vaccines: past, present, and future and Professor Calman McLennan will explore What’s in the pipeline for vaccines against diarrhoea caused by bacterial pathogens?
Data from 337 cities across 18 countries show that even slight increases in ambient carbon monoxide levels from automobiles and other sources are associated with increased mortality.
Researchers analyzed data, including a total of 40 million deaths from 1979 to 2016, and ran it through a statistical model.
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The Lancet Planetary Health also shows that even short-term exposure to ambient carbon monoxide (CO) at levels below the current air quality guidelines and considered safe had an association with increased mortality.
Overall, a 1 mg/m³ increase in the average CO concentration of the previous day was associated with a 0.91% increase in daily total mortality, the study finds. This suggests reducing ambient CO concentrations through stricter control of traffic emissions and other measures could achieve considerable public health benefits.
LSHTM expertise helps global handwashing campaign reach a billion people
LSHTM expertise helps global handwashing campaign reach a billion people 19 April 2021 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png
£100m programme is helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19 around the world Share
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s (LSHTM) expertise in behaviour change and programme evaluation has played a major role in a global programme aimed at tackling the spread of COVID-19 to achieve a major milestone.
One billion people in developing countries have now been reached with hygiene promotion, hygiene products and access to handwashing facilities by the Hygiene and Behaviour Change Coalition (HBCC), a £100m programme led by the UK government and British business Unilever.
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