INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Call to Action for Ensuring Fair Prices for All Vaccines for All Countries with Limited Resources
▶️We are calling on governments and international
organisations around the world to address vaccine price as a matter of urgency, to protect the lives of present and future generations through global, equitable access to affordable vaccines.
▶️Addressing the systemic issue of unaffordable vaccine prices requires a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder approach. This includes professional associations, non-profits, civil society & individuals.
▶️We invite you to show your support for this Call to Action by signing on below.
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WSPID supports global declaration and commitment on childhood pneumonia
▶️Each year pneumonia is killing 700,000 children - 2,000 every day. Yet pneumonia remains the leading infectious cause of child mortality, which we know how to prevent and treat.
At the 2nd Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia, governments, partners, and civil society came together again determined to protect all children from the leading infectious threat to their survival - pneumonia.
The Declaration, which WSPID supports, outlines the new commitments announced at the Forum that will accelerate declines in child pneumonia deaths, strengthen primary health care, and advance progress towards achievement of the child survival Sustainable Development Goal (SDG).
WSPID looks forward to working with the forum partners and the wider PID community to strengthen prevention and treatment efforts to reduce childhood pneumonia in low resource settings.
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Comprehensive syllabus to inspire and educate a new generation of paediatricians!
▶️WSPID is pleased to promote the Postgraduate Certificate, the Postgraduate Diploma, and the MSc in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, which are run in Oxford and are supported by the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Disease (ESPID).
These courses are for individuals wanting to gain an understanding of the principles that underpin paediatric infection, the ways in which those principles have developed, and to translate this understanding into good clinical and research practice.
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The WHO Essential Medicine List AWaRe Antibiotic Book - Now Available!
▶️The WHO EML AWaRe Antibiotic book has now been published on the WHO website!
The AWaRe book provides concise, evidence-based guidance on how to use the antibiotics included on WHO’s Model Lists of Essential Medicines and is an important step towards improving clinical care, the optimal use of antibiotics in humans and the development of AMR policy.
In addition to the book, there is a mobile app and a version of the book accompanied by summary infographics for each infection for both adults and children that provide a quick-reference guide for health care workers at the point of care.
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Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Pregnant and Peripartum People: A FIELD GUIDE
▶️ Written and developed by the Sentinel Project for Pediatric
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, this first edition Field Guide can be seen as constituting a set of tools derived by clinical consensus and based on real-world practice with people who are pregnant and their neonates.
Field Guide
Clinical Infectious Diseases: COVID-19 and Pregnancy Outcomes in Africa
We're pleased to share AFREHealth's publications on COVID-19 and Pregnancy in 6 African Countries and accompanying commentary that have just been e-published (ahead of print) under open access at the Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal website.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection and Pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A 6-Country Retrospective Cohort Analysis | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
Prioritizing Pregnant Women for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination in African Countries | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
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Now available & Open Access! The PIDJ Supplement - Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention and Control in Low-and Middle-income Countries
WSPID is excited to announce that this Open Access supplement is now available on the PIDJ website. The supplement is the result of a successful global Peds ID collaboration, which started during a meeting at WSPID2019 in Manila. Many thanks to the supplement leads Mark Cotton, Mike Sharland, Susan Coffin and Penelope Bryant for their hard work and perseverance. WSPID is also extremely grateful to the supplement leads, Angela Dramowski and their institutions for their financial contribution enabling the supplement to be Open Access.
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