Twitter Watch [accessed 28 July 2012 – 18:42]

Twitter Watch [accessed 28 July 2012 – 18:42]
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.

USAID Global Health ‏@USAIDGH
A new #GlobalHealth journal is seeking submissions. Learn more: http://ow.ly/ctf6D #AIDS2012 @GHSPJournal @JohnsHopkinsCCP @K4Health
8:50 AM – 28 Jul 12

GAVI Alliance @GAVIAlliance
Today is World Hepatitis Day! #Vaccines are critical 2 protecting kids against hepatitis B. http://ht.ly/cz1aV #worldhepday @GAVIAlliance
8:44 AM – 28 Jul 12

Seth Berkley @GAVISeth
Really exciting! Fiji with AusAid help will introduce 3 life saving vax: Pneumo, Rota & HPV in Q3. First country to do so! #vaccineswork
4:47 PM – 27 Jul 12

IVAC at JHSPH ‏@IVACtweets
Tomorrow is World Hepatitis Day! A shocking 1 in 12 people live with either chronic #hepatitis B or C. http://bit.ly/OqCtCQ #worldhepday
11:25 AM – 27 Jul 12

Kaiser Family Found @KaiserFamFound
VIDEO http://ow.ly/cxPIA Check out “The Global Fund: The Next 5 Years” from @aids2012 conference #AIDS2012 #HIV
10:33 AM – 27 Jul 12

Americas Quarterly @AmerQuarterly
AQ’s new issue: Lessons from #cholera in the Americas by Jonathan Weigel and Paul Farmer, co-founder of @PIH | http://bit.ly/NYUNU7 #Haiti
Retweeted by Partners In Health
5:45 PM – 26 Jul 12

The Wistar Institute ‏@TheWistar
With #pertussis (whooping cough) on the rise, Wistar’s Dr. Ertl comments on “Halting the Backwards Slide…” http://www.wistar.org/wistar-today/wistar-wire/2012-07-26/halting-the-backward-slide-toward-epidemic #vaccines
10:25 AM – 26 Jul 12

AIDS2012 @aids2012
Barton Haynes: Towards an HIV Vaccine: We Now Understand the Face of the Enemy http://youtu.be/8BYcQrce8CI #AIDS2012
Retweeted by IAVI
8:10 PM – 25 Jul 12

CDC Global Health @CDCGlobal
A7: Currently NIH, CDC, DOD, & IAVI do vaccine research in Kenya & are launching new trials of promising new vaccines #CDCiac3 #AIDS2012
Retweeted by IAVI
1:56 PM – 25 Jul 12

APHA ‏@PublicHealth
UK to offer free flu vaccine to all kids,  @dhgovuk announces: http://goo.gl/GlJtR
6:09 PM – 25 Jul 12