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- 1From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWHO is providing support to Guinea in response to the first outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the country. As of 9 April, Guinea had reported 157 cases including 101 deaths. Initially cases were tested and confirmed...
- 2From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedOn the eve of the 40th anniversary of launching of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974, during the twenty-seventh World Health Assembly (WHA), fundamental questions about the level of financing needed...
- 3From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective To analyse the epidemiology of measles in China and determine the progress made towards the national elimination of the disease. Methods We analysed measles surveillance data--on the age, sex, residence and...
- 4From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWhat started as an ambitious effort to tackle six vaccine-preventable diseases has become one of the world's most successful public health programmes. This month the Expanded Programme on Immunization marks its 40...
- 5From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe world is losing some US$ 487 billion to health-care fraud and error annually according to a new report by BDO LLP, an accountancy and business advisory firm, in partnership with the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies...
- 6From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedProblem Although most primary hepatocellular cancers (HCCs) are attributable to chronic viral hepatitis and largely preventable, such cancers remain a leading cause of cancer-related mortality wherever chronic hepatitis...
- 7From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWHO issued its first set of guidelines on the screening, care and treatment of hepatitis C last month and will be working with countries to introduce the guidelines as part of their national treatment programmes....
- 8From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWHO's thousands of @WHO Twitter and Facebook followers were invited to mark World Health Day on 7 April by posting "selfies" on WHO's Facebook page or their own Twitter feeds. The self-portrait photographs show them...
- 9From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThis month the World Health Assembly discusses the post-2015 global tuberculosis strategy and accompanying set of targets. Giovanni Battista Migliori tells Fiona Fleck how his institute--one of WHO's thousands of...
- 10From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAt any age, disabling hearing impairment has a profound impact on interpersonal communication, psychosocial well-being, quality of life and economic independence. According to the World Health Organization's estimates,...
- 11From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective To evaluate the effect of vouchers for maternity care in public health-care facilities on the utilization of maternal health-care services in Cambodia. Methods The study involved data from the 2010...
- 12From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective To characterize influenza seasonality and identify the best time of the year for vaccination against influenza in tropical and subtropical countries of southern and south-eastern Asia that lie north of the...
- 13From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn 2007, the coming into force of the revised International Health Regulations (2005) (1) [IHR (2005)]--the most powerful, far-reaching instrument of international law ever conceived to protect people's health--was met...
- 14From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIntimate partner violence against women remains a widespread public health problem in European countries and seriously undermines women's physical, mental and social well-being. (1) According to a recent report by the...
- 15From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedDelegates from WHO's Member States will discuss "the link between climate and health" this month at the World Health Assembly (WHA)--just three months before WHO hosts the first ever global conference on climate change...
- 16From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn all countries with temperate climates, a clear seasonal peak in influenza activity occurs during the winter months. (1) In countries with tropical or subtropical climates, however, influenza seasonality is more...
- 17From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective To analyse evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and to identify areas where evidence is lacking. Methods The Cochrane Central...
- 18From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 92, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed19-24 May--Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly 31 May--World No Tobacco Day 14 June-World Blood Donor Day 28 July--World Hepatitis Day 27-29 August--WHO Conference on Health and Climate, Geneva 23...