Published:December 21, 2018
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(18)30289-3
Meeting Report
27–30 June 2017 Manila, Philippines
Journal of Virus Eradication 2018; 4 (Supplement 2): 33–39
Cancer is an emerging public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa due to population growth, ageing and westernisation of lifestyles. In this piece, we use data from Mozambique over a 50-year period to illustrate cancer epidemiological trends in low-income and middle-income countries to hypothesise ...potential circumstances and factors that could explain changes in cancer burden and to discuss surveillance weaknesses and potential improvements. This epidemiological transition deserves increasing policy attention.
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The report covers: drivers of humanitarian crises in the region, particularly the intensification of violence in the DRC; manifestations of humanitarian needs, including record levels of displacement and food insecurity; and constraints to meeting humanitarian needs, including obstacles to humanitar...ian access and inadequate funding
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With this study, we estimated the burden of serious fungal infections for the general healthy population and for those at risk, including those infected with HIV, patients with asthma, as well as those under intensive care. We also highlight from studies in progress of high incidences of histoplasm...osis, CM and Pneumocystis jirovecii in adult HIV-infected patients.
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INT J TUBERC LUNG DIS 22(2):197–205 http://dx.doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.17.0245
The Global Health Security Agenda programme develops national capacity to prevent zoonotic and non-zoonotic diseases while quickly and effectively detecting and controlling diseases when they do emerge. The Emerging Pandemic Threats programme improves national capacity to pre-empt the emergence and ...re-emergence of infectious zoonotic disease and to prevent the next pandemic.
Action against emerging pandemic threats is taken through projects on: Avian influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome, Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050 and Emergency equipment stockpile. With high-impact diseases that jump from animals to humans on the rise, these programmes are reducing the risk to lives and livelihoods from national, regional and global disease spread.
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Данный Национальный план в области Устойчивости к противомикробным пре- паратам (УПП) с компонентом потребления противомикробных препаратов (ППП), для секторов зд...авоохранения и сельского хозяйства был разработан на основе Глобального плана Всемирной организации здравоохранения (ВОЗ) по УПП, 2015 года. Для подготовки этого плана, была создана межсекторальная и межведомственная рабочая группа, координируемая Службой государственного надзора здравоохранения и социальной защиты населения (СГНЗ и СЗН), Мини- стерства здравоохранения и социальной защиты населения (МЗСЗН) Республи- ки Таджикистан в мае 2016 года. С технической помощью ВОЗ, были проведены несколько семинаров, консультативных встреч и работ по выделению приори- тетных направлений и необходимых мероприятий в стране по сдерживанию и контролю за ППП и ростом УПП.
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Biomédica 2018;38:180-8