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Mapping the delivery of interventions for vaccine-preventable infections in pregnancy in Victoria, Australia
CONCLUSION: Coordinated and standardised system and clinical care improvements are required to provide equitable care for pregnant women and their infants, including training and education for healthcare providers, improving data capture and communication among health services.PMID:36740448 | DOI:10.1071/PY22158
Source: Primary Care - February 5, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Nafisa Yussf Nicole Allard Nicole Romero Ann Wilson Jack Wallace Meg Perrier Stacey Rowe Rosemary Morey Neylan Aykut Benjamin Cowie Source Type: research

Increasing hepatitis B vaccination coverage of healthcare workers - global lessons for South Africa
Curr Opin Immunol. 2021 Apr 2;71:6-12. doi: 10.1016/j.coi.2021.03.010. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHealthcare workers (HCWs) are at high risk of contracting hepatitis B (HB), a severe blood-borne vaccine-preventable disease, caused by HB virus (HBV) infection. Low HB vaccine (HepB) coverage has resulted in suboptimal protection and high HBV infection rates in South African HCWs. Studies from Africa have identified cost; unavailability/lack of access to HepB; and lack of awareness/knowledge of HB and HepB, as barriers to HCW uptake. Studies from Europe show little difference in HepB coverage between countries mandating ve...
Source: Current Opinion in Immunology - April 5, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Rosemary Joyce Burnett Angela Dramowski Edina Amponsah-Dacosta Johanna Catharina Meyer Source Type: research

Can Gingko and Turmeric Help Stop Ebola?
Summary There is no known pharmaceutical currently available that specifically treats Ebola disease. One treatment modality that should be considered is the use of herbal medicines, which have both centuries old anecdotal success as well as recent modern biochemical and formal research rationales for their use. Five areas of action that could be addressed by the herbal medicines as it relates to Ebola would be: VP24/immune system evasion GP protein/replicatio; herbal strategies effective against similar hemorrhagic disease beneficial modulation of patient immune and inflammatory response systems prophylactic use for heal...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease ayurvedic baicalen cathepsin b dengue Ebola gingko herb Quercetin resveratrol rosemary sage st johns work turmeric Source Type: blogs