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Patient Zero: Back From The Brink
A six-year old boy in Papua New Guinea wakes up one day and is suddenly unable to stand up.
Less than a year later, children in three other Asia Pacific nations are experiencing the same alarming symptoms.
A disease that was eradicated from this region is back — and it appears to be spreading.
An alliance of Australia’s leading health and development institutions has applauded the Australian Government’s $620 million boost for health systems in the Pacific and Southeast Asia. This alliance includes the Australia Council for International Development...
As part of my second summer in the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Program, I joined the Infectious Diseases, Immunizations, and Emergencies (IDIE) research group based at the Sydney School of Public Health, the University of Sydney, Australia as a student researcher....
The IDIE team have been working on an ARIA funded project, aimed to to identify opportunities to improve the implementation and ongoing use of the registry as part of the national immunisation program in Lao PDR. This project aligns closely with the World Health...