Egypt exhibited resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic shock following timely policy response supported by 2020 Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) and 2020–21 Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). While performance under SBA was strong, immediate health crisis delayed efforts re-invigorate much needed structural reforms while high public debt vulnerabilities continued expose country changes in global financia...

World Health Organization has recommended all countries to introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in routine immunization schedule, especially those countries with higher rate of mortality in children. However, Islamic Republic of Iran and more than 50 other countries including Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Cabo V...

Brand Names: Cardigox (Belgium); Cardiogoxin (Argentina); Cardioxin (India); Digacin (Germany); Digitek (US); Digomal (Italy); Digosin (Japan, Korea); Digoxina (Peru); Digoxine Navtivelle (France); Digoxin-Sandoz (Benin, Burkina-Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory-Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Kuwait, Oman, Qutar, Saudi-Arabia, United-Arab-...

The public sector in developing countries is increasingly contracting with the non-state sector to improve access, efficiency and quality of health services. We conducted a multicountry study to assess the range of health services contracted out, the process of contracting and its influencing factors in ten countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Islamic Repu...

Nabil Fahmy is Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United States of America and former Head of Egypt’s delegation to the Middle East Arms Control and Regional Security talks (ACRS). Ambassdaor Fahmy has also served on the Egyptian delegations to the First Main Committee (Disarmament and International Security) of the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Conference ...

BACKGROUND Bibliometric analysis is increasingly employed as a useful tool to assess the quantity and quality of research performance. The specific goal of the current study was to evaluate the performance of research output originating from Arab world and published in international Integrative and Complementary Medicine (ICM) journals. METHODS Original scientific publications and reviews fro...

This cross-sectional survey aimed to provide an overview of tobacco control strategies in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). A questionnaire to collate data on implementation of 6 major policies was developed based on the previously published Tobacco Control Scale and using MPOWER measures of the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative and the Tobacco Atlas. Only 3 of the 21 countries...