Twitter Watch: Week to 25 April 2011

Twitter Watch
A selection of items of interest this week from a variety of twitter feeds. This capture is highly selective and by no means intended to be exhaustive.

globalfundnews The Global Fund
eBangladesh: 4th World Malaria Day 2011: Zero malaria deaths by 2015 http://bit.ly/faNPs9

gatesfoundation Gates Foundation
Bill Gates Asks Families to Celebrate #Immunization Week 2011: http://gates.ly/i3JLed #vaccines

MalariaVaccine PATH MVI
A perspective on World #Malaria Day from MVI Director Dr. Christian Loucq: http://bit.ly/f6q3fm

CDCgov CDC.gov
Next week is National Infant Immunization Week! Protect your baby from serious diseases—find out how! #NIIW http://go.usa.gov/bil

CDCgov CDC.gov
Apr 24 is World Meningitis Day. Do you know symptoms of the disease? http://go.usa.gov/Thl

NIAIDNews NIAID News
The road to an #AIDS vaccine: New NIAID article proposes adaptive #clinicaltrial designs to speed vaccine development: http://go.usa.gov/TLm

rotary Rotary International
by EndPolioNow
Give a talk on polio based on The Rise and Fall of Poliomyelitis. Includes timeline, charts & case for eradication. http://cot.ag/dOSnCx

FightingMalaria Malaria Consortium
Financial Times special report on combating malaria out tomorrow: http://tinyurl.com/4xmel9c

GAVIAlliance GAVI Alliance
News Update: GAVI request for US funding… – GAVI request for US funding… http://ow.ly/1cgvHo

GAVIAlliance GAVI Alliance
We need 24,187 more signers to reach our goal. Act now and help us spread the word: http://one.org/international/actnow/vaccines/

sabinvaccine Sabin Vaccine Inst.
Dengue Vaccine Initiative partner discusses the demand for a #dengue vaccine: http://bit.ly/hjPQ5S