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- 1From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOn Friday 6 December the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP) ended with a closing ceremony in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, having eliminated river blindness as a public health problem in West Africa. Farmers are now...
- 2From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLegislation to control tobacco use in developing countries has lagged behind the dramatic rise in tobacco consumption. India, the third largest grower of tobacco in the world, amassed 1.7 million disability-adjusted life...
- 3From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Vol. 80, No. 11 (the November 2002 issue), the title of the first item should read "paralysis", and not "poliovirus". in the first sentence under this title, the words "caused by poliomyelitis" should be deleted....
- 4From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper reviews the English language literature on the safety, immunogenicity and effectiveness in children infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) of vaccines currently recommended by WHO for use in...
- 5From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWHO's department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence joins the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Geneva in a project entitled "Health, human rights and legislation: a special focus on...
- 6From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSullivan's method and a regression model were used to calculate healthy life expectancy (HALE) for men and women in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong SAR) of China. These methods need estimates of the...
- 7From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective To estimate the prevalence of goitre, urinary iodine status, coverage of supplementation of iodized oil capsules, and current use of iodized salt in children in Lesotho. Methods Cross-sectional study of...
- 8From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA new alliance has been formed to increase access to antiretroviral drugs in low- and middle-income countries. Named the International HIV Treatment Action Coalition (ITAC), it was launched on 12 December in Geneva...
- 9From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA recombinant vaccine against the human sexually-transmitted papillomavirus type HPV-16, which is thought to cause as many as half of all cervical cancers, has been shown to prevent long-term HPV-16 infections in a trial...
- 10From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Water is fundamental for life and health. The human right to water is indispensable for leading a healthy life in human dignity. It is a pre-requisite to the realization of all other rights." This statement is from a...
- 11From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSouth Africans have made substantial changes to their sexual behaviour and fewer people are living with HIV than was previously estimated, according to results from the biggest household HIV/AIDS study ever undertaken in...
- 12From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective To measure the economic burden associated with diabetes mellitus in Latin America and the Caribbean. Methods Prevalence estimates of diabetes for the year 2000 were used to calculated direct and indirect...
- 13From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWomen in the isolated Amazon jungle region of San Martin in Peru are participating in a research programme to prevent cervical cancer, which kills an unusually large number of women in that country--some 40 per 100 000...
- 14From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective To describe the characteristics of compatible poliomyelitis cases and to assess the programmatic implications of clusters of such cases in India. Methods We described the characteristics of compatible...
- 15From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlthough domestic violence is an increasing public health concern in developing countries, evidence from representative, community-based studies is limited. In a survey of 5109 women of reproductive age in the Rakai...
- 16From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA pan-African forum has been launched to promote health research for development in Africa. It will also strengthen the continent's voice in setting and implementing the global health research agenda. The African...
- 17From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWHO has published a Guide to United Nations resources and activities for the prevention of interpersonal violence. It provides information on the work of 14 UN agencies and programmes in this area, together with contact...
- 18From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedKey pharmaceuticals should be sold to developing countries at much lower prices than they command in the richer parts of the world, says a British-led report on global access to medicines. The report of the UK...
- 19From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective To investigate the impact of violence against mothers on mortality risks for their offspring before 5 years of age in Nicaragua. Methods From a demographic database covering a random sample of urban and...
- 20From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSince its inception over 50 years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) has earned trust and respect globally for its achievements as the lead agency for directing and coordinating international health work. Through...