Lessons from Botswana's HIV/AIDS treatment programme

Lessons from the USAID Child Blindness Programme

Action on sugar--lessons from UK salt reduction programme.

Obesity has increased worldwide during the past 30 years in both high-income and low-income countries and in all divisions of society. The estimated numbers of overweight and obese adults worldwide in 2005 were 937 million (922–951 million) and 396 million (388–405 million), respectively. If recent trends continue, it is estimated that there would be 2·16 billion overweight people and 1·12 bill...

Lessons from the moroccan national trachoma control programme.

In 1992, the Moroccan Programme for the Prevention of Blindness (Programme Marocain de Lutte contre la Cécité) completed a nationwide survey of the prevalence of visual impairment and its causes in Morocco. Since then, the prevention of trachoma has been a key priority of the Programme for the Prevention of Blindness. In Morocco, blinding trachoma is confined to five southern provinces: Errachi...

Anaemia control: lessons from the flour fortification programme.

OBJECTIVES Anaemia is an important public health problem in Iran; therefore, a programme of flour fortification with iron was launched in two pilot provinces. The present study was conducted in January 2009 to evaluate the effectiveness and process of this programme. STUDY DESIGN A 'before-and-after study' was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the flour fortification programme, and t...

Lessons from the NHS National Programme for IT.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 1 January 2007 186 1 3-4 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2007 www.mja.com.au Editorials times, is currently used for 12% of bookings. Rad archiving, el ctronic prescription transfer, email, and directory have been implemented, but electronic pat common user interface and sec ndary use of data ar delayed. The NHS chose to procure systems centrall...