Hande Harmanci, Philippe Duclos, Carmen A. Rodriguez Hernandez, Andrew Meek, Madhava Ram Balakrishnan, Narendra Kumar Arora, and Stefan Z. Wiktor Global Hepatitis Programme, World Health Organization, SAGE Secretariat, Department of Vaccines, Immunization and Biologicals, World Health Organization, Prequalification Team, World Health Organization, and Safety and Vigilance Team, World Health Org...

Recurrent aphthous ulceration (RAU) are a disease of an unknown etiology and mediated through T-cell lymphocytes. Evidence suggests that RAU is connected with chronic bowel disease, haematinic deficiencies, AIDS, food hypersensitivity and severe stress. The aim of this study was to determine whether differences in anxiety and depression could be seen in patients with RAU during acute phase and ...

Dr Halfdan Mahler served three terms as director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1973 to 1988. He joined WHO in 1951 as a senior officer attached to the National Tuberculosis Programme in India. He came to WHO headquarters in 1962 as chief of the tuberculosis programme, a post he held until 1969. From 1969 until 1970, he served as director of project systems analysis. From 1...

Leprosy remains a public health problem in Brazil with new case incidence exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) goals in endemic clusters throughout the country. Migration can facilitate movement of disease between endemic and non-endemic areas, and has been considered a possible factor in continued leprosy incidence in Brazil. A study was conducted to investigate migration as a risk factor...

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners aim to treat 3 million people infected with HIV in poor and middle income countries with antiretroviral treatment by the end of 2005. The ambitious "3 by 5" initiative has had its supporters and its critics since its announcement in 2002.

Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage [UHC; World Health Organization (WHO), 2014] is to be welcomed because tackling the relationship between cost-effectiveness and fairness has been given too little attention in policy-making. The consensus that universal coverage is a good thing quickly disperses as the concept is translated into working national policies and local del...

The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (the Commission) was launched by the World Health Organization in 2005. It aims to support countries and global health partners to act on social factors leading to ill-health and health inequalities. Taking action on the social determinants of health is not new for Australia. This paper provides a description of the work of the first 18 months of ...

Since November 2003, the epidemic intelligence team at the French Institut de Veille Sanitaire has been gathering data on influenza A(H5N1) circulation in poultry and on human cases worldwide. As Indonesia notifies the world's 500th case to the World Health Organization, we discuss the epidemiological situation and trends of A(H5N1) influenza. Although the overall number of cases reported world...

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