The incidence of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases continues to escalate: half the countries in the Region reported a high incidence of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in 2015. WHO responded to an increasing number of outbreaks. These included influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 in Libya, Kuwait and Jordan; avian influenza A (H5N1) in Egypt; MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia and Jordan; chol...

The Choices and Challenges in Changing Childbirth research network is a regional collaboration among 4 countries in the Arab region, namely Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Syrian Arab Republic, providing evidence of childbirth practices and identifying areas amenable to change. Studies that have been conducted in the region pinpoint problems in the quality of maternity services and a lack of wome...

The Yale University Prehistoric Expedition to Nubia was part of UNESCO'S international program to salvage the monuments of Nubia, with the direct aid of the Department of Antiquities of the United Arab Republic. The Yale Prehistoric Expedition worked in Upper Egypt and Egyptian Nubia for three field seasons during 1962-1965 inclusive (Reed, 1966). My own participation was limited to the last se...

Egypt has 59 indicated in its response to the Peer Review questionnaire that agreement between Arab Republic of and Council Ministers Serbia Montenegro was inherited been counted as two separate agreements. tax agreements force reported questionnaire. Twenty-nine those comply with minimum standard.

1 Pharmaceutical analytical Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt 2 Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt 3 Quality Control Department, Gulf Pharmaceutical Industry (JULPHAR), RAK, United Arab Emirates 4 Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ajman Univ...

The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, which opened at Helsinki on 3 July 1973 and continued at Geneva from 18 September 1973 to 21 July 1975, was concluded at Helsinki on I August 1975 by the High Representatives of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, the H...

We analysed data on overweight and stunting from large national surveys performed between 2001 and 2004 in 5 Arab countries (Djibouti, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen). Overweight and stunting were defined according to new WHO growth standards. Overweight ranged from 8.9% in Yemen to 20.2% in Syrian Arab Republic. The risk ratio (RR) for overweight in stunted chi...

Institute of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo Egypt, Departments of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Neurology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo Egypt, Division Mental Health and Wellbeing, Medical School , University of Warwick, Coventry UK, Mental Health Division, Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Sandwell UK and Department o...