News

01.09.2010

Are you a Danish medical student interested in conducting research in Guinea-Bissau? The Bandim Health Project is right now looking for a medical student interested in supervising data collection. Read more at:

02.07.2010

In the newly published "Lessons Learned from DANIDA supported Research for Health in Development", the Bandim Health Project in one of the eight case stories. It is possible to download the publication at: www.danida-publikationer.dk

24.06.2010

One of the affiliated researchers of the Bandim Health Project have been rewarded The Equality Price: The Immigrant medical clinic in Odense, under the leadership of Morten Sodemann, MD, member of the board of Enreca Health, has been given the new 'Equality Price' by the Danish journal 'Dagens Medicin' in a competition with eight other candidates. The committee behind this new price emphasises that within its two years of existence, the clinic has actively worked to ensure equal access to health care within the Danish health care system for a group of highly vulnerable people. Read more at www.dagensmedicin.dk/nyheder/2010/06/18/klinik-for-indvandrere-vin/index.xml

08.06.2010

A scholarship for Sara Østergaard of 216.000 dkr is received from the The Danish Council for Independent Research to the project "Patterns of childhood death in rural Guinea-Bissau".

01.06.2010

Peter Aaby has received a grant of 10 mill dkr from Danida for the development research project "Monitoring and assessing the impact of vaccinations and other childhood interventions for both boys and girls". The project will be carried out in collaboration with several research sites in Africa and Asia, all within the INDEPTH network. 

09.05.2010

Christine Stabell Benn has contributed to a debate regarding neonatal vitamin A supplementation in the "Sight and Life Magazine" - read more here  (Pages 19-29 - NB: the total pdf is more than 5 MB)

28.04.2010

The recently published paper on neonatal vitamin A supplementation created interest in the Danish press - read more at

www.berlingske.dk/viden/400.000-piger-kan-doe-af-vitamin-tilskud 
videnskab.dk/content/dk/krop_sundhed/a-vitamin-tilskud_kan_sla_piger_ihjel 

19.03.2010

The article "Effect of revaccination with BCG in early childhood on mortality: randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau" has just been published by the BMJ. It can be accessed at the following website www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.c671

10.03.2010

A vitamin A paper has now been published in BMJ - it is posible to enter the website www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/340/mar09_1/c1101  and read the paper "Vitamin A supplementation and BCG vaccination at birth in low birthweight neonates: two by two factorial randomised controlled trial" and the accompanying editorial.