Two days after the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS released the final version of their Guidance on Provider-initiated Testing and Counselling in Health Facilities (""he Guidelines"), OSI's Public Health Program issued an updated version of its paper on Increasing Access to HIV Testing and Counseling While Respecting Human Rights. Since then, as Ralf Jürgens reports, the paper has ser...

This article provides a brief critical examination of a 2002 report jointly issued by the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization on WTO law and public health. The author argues that the report is in many respects misleading as to the content of WTO law, as interpreted by the Appellate Body of the WTO, its final court. In particular, the WHO/WTO report systematically understa...

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Uruguay is hosting the WHO Global Conference on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) this month, from 18-20 October. Tabaré Vázquez, the President of Uruguay, tells the Bulletin of the World Health Organization about his country's efforts to prevent and fight NCDs and why countries should step up the global response.

Protecting patients from harm is one of the most important things health professionals can do for their patients. However, an estimated 1 in 10 patients are harmed while receiving hospital care in high-income countries,1 and studies suggest that the rates of harm are higher in lowand middleincome countries.2 The World Health Organization (WHO) describes safety as a key dimension of quality heal...

Many of the problems of academic medicine are related to the actual challenges of health-care. Some disciplines have high prestige; these have advantages in education, while the needs of the society may differ to some extent. Introduction of the World Health Organization (WHO) concept on health as well as on functioning and disability into the training of physicians and more training in communi...

During the negotiation of the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the SPS Agreement), there was clear recognition of the problems that developing countries would face in complying with the SPS Agreement. The agreement included provisions related to technical assistance and special differential treatment for developing countries. Both topics are discussed in the ...

E Broberg ([email protected])1, R Snacken1, C Adlhoch1, J Beauté1, M Galinska2, D Pereyaslov2, C Brown2, P Penttinen1, on behalf of the WHO European Region and the European Influenza Surveillance Network3 1. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden 2. World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark 3. The members of t...

A gulf exists between the many potential opportunities to improve health by applying existing research evidence and the current inequalities in health in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. The gaps between what could be achieved and what has been achieved need to be closed – or at least narrowed. Closing these gaps is a major challenge – and opportunity – as they are numerous. ...