INTRODUCTION Despite recent and robust economic growth across the Asia-Pacific region, the majority of low- and middle-income countries in the region remain dependent on some donor support for HIV programmes. We describe the availability of bilateral and multilateral official development assistance (ODA) for HIV programmes in the region. METHODS The donor countries considered in this analysis...

the asia pacific journal of medical toxicology (apjmt) was born in december 2012 to open up new perspectives for dissemination of research in medical toxicology. it was also created to expand the science of medical toxicology, addiction morbidities, drug interactions and adverse effects in the asia pacific region (1,2). the journal has attracted the support of medical toxicologists from differe...

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A long-term programme of surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated in the World Health Organization's Western Pacific Region Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme ((WHO WPR GASP) continued in 1999. Over 10,000 gonococci were examined in 18 focal centres. Resistance to the quinolones and penicillins was already high in many parts of the Western Pacific ...

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 66 per cent of all people living with HIV/AIDS and the Asia-Pacific region 19 per cent. Although the infection rate in the Asia-Pacific region is relatively low, there are warning signs of an escalating crisis. New infections in the Asia-Pacific region totalled 1.2 million in 2004 and 8.2 million to date. Asia is now home to some of the fastest growing HIV epidem...

In this study, the direct and indirect atmospheric responses over the Asian-Pacific-American region to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are documented. Since ENSO is likely to induce the northward displacement of the East Asian trough (NDEAT), some of the influence of ENSO on the Asian-Pacific-American region is possibly indirect and acts by inducing NDEAT. To separate corresponding infl...

In the Pacific island region, the progress towards achieving the global Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target 7D, improving the lives of a hundred million slum dwellers, is fraught with many challenges. Out of all the MDG targets, minimal support has been provided to improving the quality of life of residents living in squatter and informal settlements in Pacific towns and cities. In this co...

Welcome to the 2010 Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference, the premier technical meeting for the Software Engineering community in the Asia Pacific region since its inception in 1994. In addition to the many attendees from the Asia Pacific region we have a very substantial number of international participants, facilitating both local networking and connection to the broader international...

In the 1980s, amid regional controversy over France’s policies in South Pacific, a debate emerged around the idea of whether France was simply a sovereign presence ‘‘in’’ the region, or could also be seen as being ‘‘of’’ or ‘‘from’’ the region. It is an important question, as it goes to the heart of how France wants to be seen in the South Pacific region, and in the world. If France wants to re...