Iringa region of Tanzania has had great success reaching targets for voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). Looking to sustain high coverage of male circumcision, the government introduced a pilot project to offer early infant male circumcision (EIMC) in Iringa in 2013. From April 2013 to December 2014, a total of 2,084 male infants were circumcised in 8 health facilities in the region, re...

BACKGROUND In November 2011, the GAVI Alliance made the decision to add HPV vaccine as one of the new vaccines for which countries eligible for its funding (less than $1520 per capita income) could apply to receive support for national HPV vaccination, provided they could demonstrate the ability to deliver HPV vaccines. This paper describes the data and analysis shared with GAVI policymakers fo...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We performed a pilot project to assess the need for and feasibility of a church-based stroke risk reduction intervention in a predominantly Mexican American community. METHODS Participants were recruited after each mass on a single weekend from 2 Catholic churches in Corpus Christi, Texas. Questionnaires about personal stroke risk factors and interest in program partici...

The neglected diseases (NDs) need to be placed much higher on the agendas of the Ministries of Health and other organizations which are capable of effective action. Pan American Health Organization’s plan seeks to strengthen surveillance, prevention, and control systems for NDs, with expected positive collateral benefits to other surveillance and control programs in Ministries of Health. Multi-...

Many Open Source Software (called OSS) projects have been proposed and many software developers have contributed to develop software by OSS style. In the OSS development style, the source code is opened to the public and checked by the distributed software developers to improve the quality. The source code is, however, not effectively used to improve the productivity of other software developme...

Various approaches are taken to construct synthetic cells in the laboratory, a challenging goal that became experimentally imaginable over the past two decades. The construction of protocells, which explores scenarios of the origin of life, has been the original motivations for such projects. With the advent of the synthetic biology era, bottom-up engineering approaches to synthetic cells are n...

* Support for this project was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Office of Naval Research contract N00014-96-1-0750. ABSTRACT We describe an approach for automatically computing a class of design rationales. Our focus is computing the purposes of the geometric features on the parts of a device. We first simulate the device with the feature in q...

The increasing complexity of the Information Systems (IS) asks for new IS development methods constructed ‘on the fly’ to be adapted to the specific situations of the projects at hand. Situational Method Engineering responds to this need by offering techniques to construct methods by assembling reusable method fragments stored in some method repository. For method engineering to be performed it...

A Knowledge Based Environment Knowledge-Based Environment to Support Product Design Validation of Refresh Projects (projects with minor changes in respect to previous ones) has been developed on Teamcenter Platform (PLM software). Refresh Projects are around 60% of the total number of projects in the sponsoring company. This implementation will avoid repeating unnecessary and costly physical pr...