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Global Health Highlights Weekly Digest 2021/04/26-30

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2021-04-30

For the purpose of learning and sharing of global public health knowledge and information to assist the global fight against the infectious disease, Bioperfectus is delighted to accumulate clinical pearls, public health news, regulations & guidance as well as resources & reports to present you Bioperfectus .

Clinical pearls

  • Associations between body-mass index and COVID-19 severity in 6·9 million people in England: a prospective, community-based, cohort study
  • Variations in the characteristics and outcomes of children living with HIV following universal ART in sub-Saharan Africa (2006–17): a retrospective cohort study. 
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Public health news

  • Asia Today: India records 320K cases as foreign hep arrives
  • COVID-19: UK coronavirus passports for foreign travel are 'forthcoming', says Greece
  • Brazilian regulator rejects use of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine
  • Japanese Government provides New Emergency Grant to UNICEF to improve Cold Chain in Ethiopia

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Regulations & Guidance

  • CLINICAL GUIDANCE FOR MANAGEMENT OF ADULT COVID-19 PATIENTS
  • Nonclinical Testing of Individualized Antisense Oligonucleotide Drug Products for Severely Debilitating or Life-Threatening Diseases Guidance for Sponsor-Investigators

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Resources & Reports

  • Renewing the fight to end tuberculosis
  • Monitoring differences between the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant and other lineages 
  • A Closer Look at Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Diagnostic Testing

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