Interventions that will increase and sustain the uptake of vaccines in low- and middle-income countries
Immunisation is a key component in the prevention of illness and the Cochrane review of interventions to improve coverage of childhood immunisation in low- and middle-income countries was updated for the second time in December 2023. We asked lead author, Angela Oyo-Ita from University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in Nigeria, to tell us about the latest findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 27, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1070: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses monkeypox and chickenpox co-infection in southern Nigeria, vaccine effectiveness against influenza A, SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody titers in maternal blood, umbilical cord blood, and breast milk, COVID-19 rapid antigen tests with self-collected vs health care worker–collected nasal and throat swab specimens, four methods for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza A virus activity in schools, efficacy and safety of Baricitinib for the treatment of hospitalized adults with COVID-19, a synbiotic preparation (SIM01) for post-acute COVID-19 syndrome in Hong Kong, consisten...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 16, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 4 - How to transform global health institutions born of colonial eras
Leaders from academic and funding organisations discuss the transformative change required to overcome extractive and inequitable research practices in global health, and the need for examining power and privilege within traditional research institutions.
Our panel
Samuel Oti, senior program specialist, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, and member of the Global Health Decolonization Movement in Africa (GHDM-Africa)
Muneera Rasheed, clinical psychologist and behaviour scientist and former faculty, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Liam Smeeth, professor of clinical epidemiology and director of ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 2 - Looking back to move forward: missing histories of the decolonisation agenda
Experts discuss how failing to confront colonial pasts is linked to present lack of progress in global health equity, why health leaders need historical educations, and how, for Indigenous peoples, it’s not just a colonial history but a colonial present.
Our panel
Seye Abimbola, editor of BMJ Global Health, and health systems researcher from Nigeria currently based at the University of Sydney, Australia
Catherine Kyobutungi, Ugandan epidemiologist and executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, head of the school of history and professor of medical and glob...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1022: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses autochthonous leprosy in the United States, a systematic review to identify novel clinical characteristics of Mpox virus infection and therapeutic and preventive strategies to combat the virus, two-year duration of immunity of inactivated poliovirus vaccine, evaluation of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 SIA impact in a large outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus in Nigeria, performance of rapid antigen tests to detect symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection, effectiveness of the COVID-19 bivalent vaccine, oral Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir for COVID-1...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 8, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 913: Twinkle twinkle little SARS
TWiV explains the meaning of vaccine-derived poliovirus found in London sewage, risk of long COVID after infections with Delta or Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2, and enhancers of innate immune signaling as broad-spectrum antivirals. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Poliovirus in UK sewage (ProMedMail and Science) Poliovirus eradication effort (Science) Long COVID after Delta and Omicron (Lancet) How common is long COVID? (Nature) Immune enhancers as ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - June 26, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
The past, present, and future of health in Nigeria
Ibrahim Abubakar, Tolullah Oni, and Obinna Onwujekwe joinThe Lancet Voice to discuss how Nigeria's history affects the modern-day health system, and the challenges and opportunities for Nigeria in the future. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - March 15, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 783: COVID-19 clinical update #72 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #72, Daniel Griffin covers long term symptoms in children, outcomes for MIS-C, recent guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics, a large well traced outbreak of delta variant, low dose mRNA vaccination generates durable T cell memory and antibodies, protective immunity in recovered patients, assessment of BinaxNOW, no effect of oral azithromycin, post-discharge symptoms in Nigeria, and therapeutics for low and middle income countries. Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode L...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 23, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Ebola - Stepping up in Sierre Leone
In 2014, Oliver Johnson was a 28 year old British doctor, working on health policy in Sierre Leone after finishing medical school. Also working in Freetown was Sinead Walsh, then the Irish Ambassador to the country.
Then the biggest outbreak of Ebola on record happened in West Africa, starting in Guinea and quickly spreading to Liberia, Sierre Leone and Nigeria.
Oliver and Sinead have co-authored a book about the change that wrought on their lives, how they stepped into roles coordinating the international r esponse to the disease and running a treatment centre. They join us today to talk about their experiences there.
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Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Ebola - Stepping up in Sierre Leone
In 2014, Oliver Johnson was a 28 year old British doctor, working on health policy in Sierre Leone after finishing medical school. Also working in Freetown was Sinead Walsh, then the Irish Ambassador to the country.
Then the biggest outbreak of Ebola on record happened in West Africa, starting in Guinea and quickly spreading to Liberia, Sierre Leone and Nigeria.
Oliver and Sinead have co-authored a book about the change that wrought on their lives, how they stepped into roles coordinating the international response to the disease and running a treatment centre. They join us today to talk about their experiences there.
F...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
The places where HIV shows no sign of ending, and the parts of the human brain that are bigger —in bigger brains
Nigeria, Russia, and Florida seem like an odd set, but they all have one thing in common: growing caseloads of HIV. Science Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about this week ’s big read on how the fight against HIV/AIDS is evolving in these diverse locations.
Sarah also talks with Armin Raznahan of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, about his group’s work measuring which parts of the human brain are bigger in bigger brains. Adult human b rains can vary as much as two times in size—and until now this expansion was thought to be evenly distributed. However, the team fo...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 14, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
The places where HIV shows no sign of ending, and the parts of the human brain that are bigger —in bigger brains
Nigeria, Russia, and Florida seem like an odd set, but they all have one thing in common: growing caseloads of HIV. Science Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about this week ’s big read on how the fight against HIV/AIDS is evolving in these diverse locations. Sarah also talks with Armin Raznahan of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, about his group’s work measuring which parts of the human brain are bigger in bigger brains. Adult human br ains can vary as much as two times in size—and until now this expansion was thought to be evenly distributed. However, the team fou...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 14, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
The places where HIV shows no sign of ending, and the parts of the human brain that are bigger —in bigger brains
Nigeria, Russia, and Florida seem like an odd set, but they all have one thing in common: growing caseloads of HIV. Science Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about this week’s big read on how the fight against HIV/AIDS is evolving in these diverse locations.
Sarah also talks with Armin Raznahan of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, about his group’s work measuring which parts of the human brain are bigger in bigger brains. Adult human brains can vary as much as two times in size—and until now this expansion was thought to be evenly distributed. However, the team fo...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 14, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
