Objectives: The study was undertaken to assess the level of sero-protection of children up to five years of age who had received at least one dose of HB vaccination in their infancy. Methodology It is a cohort study to follow up vaccinated children from four weeks after completion of vaccination to one, three and five years of age of the children. The study was conducted in three districts of N...

DEAR EDITOR, About 27 countries, mainly Arabic speaking, of different World Health Organization (WHO) regional offices in East Mediterranean Region poses a threat to World Polio Eradication Initiatives due to re‐emergence of wild polio virus (WPV) as evidenced in these countries. The different WHO regions are European Regional Office (EURO), East Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) and African...

INTRODUCTION Based on Iran's 20-year prospective national vision document, Iran may be seen as the most developed country in science and technology in the region by 2025. In this report, bibliometric indicators are used to compare the research productivity in endodontics between Iran and 28 selected Asian countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS Medical Subject Headings keyword-searching of PubMed up...

BACKGROUND Malaria is still a public health problem in the world. One of the main objectives of World Health organization is capacity building of authorities who are involved with malaria control activities. METHODS The first course was conducted in 1996 in Bandar Abbas Training center. The course was conducted jointly by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran, WHO-EMRO and Scho...

Background Malarious areas in Iran are close to Afghanistan and Pakistan that urge the researchers to extend their knowledge on malaria epidemiology to the neighboring countries as well. Vectorial capacity differs at species or even at population level, the first essential step is accurate identification of vectors. This study aimed to identify Anopheles species composition in selected malariou...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been used mainly to collect environmental data and send it to a base station. Routing protocols are needed to efficiently direct the information flows to the base station. Since sensor nodes have strict energy constraints, data gathering and communication schemes for WSNs need to be designed for an efficient utilization of the available resources. An emergen...

Most women and children have not received vaccinations for more than two years and their bodies are weak from hunger. As a result, they are more susceptible to vaccine-preventable and other communicable diseases. {/besps_c} {besps_c}0|3.jpg| The arrival of refugees from cholera-affected areas in South Sudan also increases the threat of importation of the disease into Sudan, placing both refugee...