Twitter Watch: Week to 13 June 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.

GAVIAlliance GAVI Alliance
GAVI’s Pledging Conference gets off to a flying start http://ht.ly/5g1c7 #4mlives #vaccines

GAVIAlliance GAVI Alliance
“Melinda and I very committed to vaccines. It is as much fun as writing code” @billgates #4mlives

PATHtweets PATH
Tackling chronic disease—our work on cervical cancer will be spotlighted at Global Health Council conference. http://ow.ly/5fgVE #ghc2011

sabinvaccine Sabin Vaccine Inst.
In advance of @GAVIAlliance pledging mtg Dr Ciro de Quadros offers support with “A Lesson from Smallpox Eradication”: http://bit.ly/iYOMbL

ECDevelopment EC Development
by GAVIAlliance
Piebalgs will announce an extra €10 million to provide life-saving vaccines @GAVIAlliance in London #4mlives http://bit.ly/9JMs9e

AIDSvaccine IAVI
@IAVISeth on strengthening continuum from R&D to eradication to deliver on #vaccines‘ promise http://bit.ly/kWQ12H #globalhealth #AIDS2011

TheLancet The Lancet
New Decade of Vaccines Series launched in London today. Read the papers here bit.ly/jj239B

PublicHealth APHA
Though child vaccination rates are high, parents need more education about vaccines, says new study: http://goo.gl/8MjxO

GAVIAlliance GAVI Alliance

#FACT: Every 20 seconds, a child dies of a vaccine-preventable disease. #infographic: http://on.fb.me/klwV1i #health #GAVI

USAID USAID
“The most transformative new breakthroughs we have at our disposal are vaccines,ʺ says USAID’s @RajShah #FrontLines http://1.usa.gov/m5nIn7

MalariaVaccine PATH MVI
GSK, J&J to trial next-generation malaria vaccine | @Reuters reut.rs/mNMyFe #malaria #vaccine