Twitter Watch to 12 September 2011

Twitter Watch
A selection of items of interest from a variety of twitter feeds associated with immunization, vaccines and global public health. This capture is highly selective and by no means intended to be exhaustive.

GAVIAlliance GAVI Alliance
Global rollout of pneumococcal #vaccine is underway across three continents.650,000 future deaths can be averted by 2015! http://ht.ly/6qIwX

PublicHealth APHA
Health impact assessments essential for solving nation’s health problems, says National Research Council report: goo.gl/WCsnI

Eurovaccine ECDC Eurovaccine
RT @hpscireland: Over 86% of measles cases in current outbreak are in Dublin. Ensure kids are vaccinated w/ 2 MMR doses bit.ly/rsFLOl

NIAIDNews NIAID News
A new #malaria #vaccine strategy? Results of a NIAID clinical trial and follow-up animal studies, and what comes next: go.usa.gov/09e

mrcglobal MRC Global Health
Do u have an innovative idea to strengthen #public & #political support for #vaccines in LMICs? http://www.vaccinechallenge.org

HIVEnterprise HIVVaccineEnterprise
by AIDSvaccine
AIDS Vaccine 2011 (#AIDSVax11) opens 12 Sept. in Bangkok – will present the latest advances in vaccine development and testing