Monthly Archives: February 2014

New HIV/AIDS collection added to the LSHTM AIDS archive

A new HIV/AIDS collection has been kindly donated to the LSHTM archives today. The papers relate to the working life of Dr Joseph Sonnabend (b. 1933), physician, clinical researcher, and community activist who played a significant role in the fight against … Continue reading

What’s next after a successful ITN mass campaign to achieve universal coverage?

By Albert Kilian, Technical Director, Tropical Health LLP In a recently published article, Zöllner and colleagues provide a very interesting assessment of ownership and equity of insecticide treated nets (ITN) following a mass distribution campaign in Burkina Faso. They report … Continue reading

ANNOUNCEMENT: Evaluation workshop for local government practitoners!

SPHR@L is excited to announce the launch of an ‘Evaluation Workshop’ aimed at local government practitioners e.g. particularly those working in housing, transport, and planning etc to be better equipped to design evaluations. Date & time: Wednesday 2nd April 2014, 9:00 am … Continue reading

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Sustainably graduating – so they don’t come home to live with us

By Robert Steinglass, Immunization Senior Advisor for JSI Have we been kicking the can down Sustainability Street? I have never forgotten his irritated impatience, or my surprise, when a senior WHO Immunization Officer told me 25 years ago, just as … Continue reading

Kaye Welling’s HIV/AIDS archives catalogue now available

The catalogue of the papers of Kaye Welling is now available on the LSHTM archives catalogue. The papers relate to her work she undertook on HIV/AIDS public education and media coverage during the 1980s-1990s whilst based in the Centre of Sexual … Continue reading

SciELO now available in the Web of Science

Thomson Reuters announced today that SciELO is now available via the Web of Science. SciELO is an open access database, providing links to articles from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal and South Africa. These cover a range of health, … Continue reading