Twitter Watch [accessed 21 April 2012 – 15:20]

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Twitter Watch [accessed 21 April 2012 – 15:20]
Items of interest from a variety of twitter feeds associated with immunization, vaccines and global public health. This capture is highly selective and is by no means intended to be exhaustive.

Orin Levine @OrinLevine
This@GAVIAlliance video is why i’m going 2 Ghana next week, & why we do the work we do @IVACtweets http://vimeo.com/38946570
Retweeted by GAVI Alliance
11:48 AM – 20 Apr 12

Dagfinn Høybråten @Hoybraten
Celebrating 1st World Immunisation Week in Haiti and 10 years of Vaccination Week in the Americas @pahowho http://pic.twitter.com/jNIvClD9
Retweeted by GAVI Alliance
1:50 PM – 21 Apr 12

PATH MVI @MalariaVaccine
T-4 days to #WorldMalariaDay | #Malaria accounts for up to 40% of Africa’s public health expenditures. http://bit.ly/MVIwmd
2:00 PM – 21 Apr 12

UNICEF @UNICEF
Join the first ever World #Immunization Week, 21-28 April. Vaccines save lives, protect kids against deadly diseases http://goo.gl/M37Yb
10:25 AM – 21 Apr 12

RWJF PublicHealth @RWJF_PubHealth
2011 was the worst year for #measles in 15 years: http://bit.ly/IW2XW6 #publichealth
9:35 AM – 20 Apr 12

GHS @GHS
Why is it important to engage the public ahead of #vaccine introductions? Check out LSHTM’s reasons here: http://bit.ly/IXULtH
Retweeted by Sabin Vaccine Inst.
5:45 PM – 19 Apr 12

DoV Collaboration @DofVC
Decade of Vaccines Collaboration – April 2012 News Report – http://eepurl.com/k7XwX
5:10 AM – 20 Apr 12

IHME at UW @IHME_UW
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Jimmy Carter: Key to changing health outcomes is reaching journalists in countries afflicted by hard-to-eradicate diseases. #AHCJ12
6:19 PM – 19 Apr 12

WHO @WHO
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Over 19 million infants did not receive the basic vaccine against diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis in 2010 http://goo.gl/tCakV #vaccineswork
5:10 PM – 19 Apr 12

GAVI Alliance @GAVIAlliance
DTP3 coverage in low-income countries has increased from 66% in 2000 to 82% in 2011 – highest level ever! http://ht.ly/aoCeb #vaccineswork
5:07 PM – 19 Apr 12

WHO @WHO
Ten years of vaccination weeks in the Americas, 365m people have been vaccinated since http://goo.gl/fUicI #vaccineswork
12:04 PM – 19 Apr 12

Partners In Health @PIH
VIDEO: In #Haiti, health workers deliver the first of two doses of #cholera vaccine: http://ow.ly/ao6c4
11:29 AM – 19 Apr 12

Partners In Health @PIH
Dr. Jim Yong Kim ( @PIH co-founder) named @WorldBank president! http://ow.ly/ajyMP via @washingtonpost
Retweeted by USAID Global Health
1:42 PM – 16 Apr 12