Nigerian State Orders Parents to Immunize Against  Polio

African Countries Debate Using DDT in Anti-Malaria Efforts -- Some propose using pesticide in tightly controlled conditions

Potential Malaria Vaccine Protect Against Different Strains -- Booster protein may also improve TB, flu vaccines

July 2011

Study Show Diabetes Surging Worldwide
  It's documented: diabetes is a global problem. A new study shows that one in 10 adults, in countries throughout the world, suffers from diabetes. Read more.

Ellyn Ogden Given Award For Heroism for Her Global Fight To End Polio
While polio cases have decreased by 99 percent worldwide over the past two decades, Pakistan is among the few countries - including India, Afghanistan and Nigeria - where polio remains endemic. American Ellyn Ogden's leadership of the USAID Polio Program has been key in efforts to eradicate the disease. Read more

Tracking the Progress Against Malaria
Somewhere in the world today, 485 children who might have died from malaria will survive. Tomorrow, another 485 will live because they received treatment or because they used bed nets as protection from mosquitoes carrying the disease-causing parasite. Read more

U.S. Grants Support Clean Energy Projects in Latin  America
 The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) committed $2,092,000 to five clean energy studies in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. The grants reflect the goals of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), an ongoing collaboration to develop clean energy resources and mitigate the effects of climate change in the Western Hemisphere, the agency announced July 1. Read more.

Lower Mekong Initiative Conference Targets Disease  Threats
High-level delegates from the United States and four countries that are part of the year-old Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) came together in Hanoi, Vietnam, June 17–18, 2010, reaching agreement on a range of issues critical to the region’s response to infectious disease threats. Read more.

The Promise of Vaccines
 Vaccines are the most cost-effective means of ensuring childhood survival. While immunization rates in developing countries have risen steadily in recent years, health officials continue their efforts to reach more children every year. Read more.

ISID Report: Novel Bunyavirus Disease - China (02)

Over 6,000 communities across Africa abandoned genital multilation/cutting in 2010

Global plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015

Update on Japanese Encephalitis (JE) Vaccine for U.S. Children

Haiti Earthquake -- One year Anniversary

Legionnaire's Disease Outbreak at Mexican Resort in Cozumel Mexico