a World Health Organization Regional Offi ce for the Western Pacifi c, Manila, Philippines. doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2010.1.1.007 The Western Pacific Surveillance and Response (WPSAR) Journal was established to encourage countries in the Western Pacific Region to share information on the surveillance of and response to public health events specific to this Region. An important step in surveillance is...

PURPOSE The goal of this registry was to collect patient characteristics and safety data from patients from the Asia-Pacific region with early breast cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy containing docetaxel (Taxotere®). METHODS This registry was open-label, international, longitudinal, multicenter, and observational in design and included a prospective group of consecutive early breast can...

International travel is fast growing. In 2011, 982 million international tourists traveled around the world to visit friends and relatives, for business, leisure, or other purposes.1 While Europe (51%) continues to be a popular tourist destination attracting about half a billion people, Asia and the Pacific (22%) are also gaining popularity.1 In 2011, 217 million people traveled to Asia-Pacific...

National medicines policies can aid the safe use of medicines by ensuring availability of quality products, appropriate information for prescribers and consumers, strengthening the national medicines regulatory capacity and improving access to expert advice and authoritative laboratory testing. We report the findings of a workshop on medicines safety, which focused on the Asia Pacific region. P...

Telecentres are established to furnish the rural communities with information and communication services, but many fail as the projects are not need-driven. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia Pacific (UNESCAP) in a study of 11,160 telecentres in 16 countries in Asia Pacific region showed that 54% of the telecentres provided access to ICTs (UNESCAP, 2008) (refer Figur...