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This training package has been produced for audiences unfamiliar with harm reduction for injecting drug users. It provides an introduction to important concepts in HIV prevention for injecting drug users. The package contains five training modules with sl

SARS caused more fear and social disruption than any other diseases of our time. While it killed a relatively small number of people it nevertheless buckled economies crippled international trade and travel and emptied the streets of some of the world

Includes information compiled in 1998 on the policies and programmes for the elderly in each member state of the Western Pacific Region. This report includes profiles which contain: demographic data and health profiles, national policies and programmes, and resources for older persons.

These guidelines focus on good practices in traditional medicine (TM) education and quality assurance. They are organized in two parts. Part A provides recommendations for good educational practices that would enable traditional medicine schools in the Western Pacific Region (and elsewhere internationally) not only to meet acceptable standards at a basic level in each broad area, but also to develop further the quality of their programmes in l...

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A module that analyses and addresses the interrelationship between gender and health. It provides an overview of key concepts in sexual and reproductive health and reviews the global and regional burden of mortality and morbidity related to sexual and reproductive health.

This revised framework provides guidance to countries in the Western Pacific Region to step up implementation of TB-HIV collaborative activities. It recommends that all people living with HIV-AIDS should be screened for TB as part of their routine care, and similarly, all patients with TB should be tested for HIV infection in TB facilities, in both instances at the point of care. This is to avoid delays in TB and HIV diagnosis, and consequentl...

This new publication reveals that the numbers of people in the Pacific island countries served with some form of improved sanitation rose from 2.9 million in 1990 to 4.0 million in 2006. Despite this impressive achievement, the proportion of people served in 2006 was still barely 48% of the overall population. The status of drinking-water is not much different, with the current proportion of people served with any type of improved drinking-wat...

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The Guide is meant to be complementary to the global ART guidelines and are considering the need of physicians, program planners, other health care workers, People Living with HIV, and drug users to have one simplified user-friendly reference guide for the national adaptation on management of HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy for IDUs.

This module is designed to improve the awareness, knowledge and skills of health professionals on poverty and gender concerns in the field of ageing. It is divided into six sections: Section 1 provides an understanding of concepts related to ageing and of ageing as a social and development issue. Section 2 examines what the links are between poverty, gender and ageing. Section 3 discusses why it is important for health professionals to address...

The HIV/AIDS epidemic poses a very serious health and developmental problem in many countries of the Asia Pacific region. Given the presence of risk behaviours and a population size representing 60 per cent of the world's people, the potential for epidemic growth is very real. Since the extensive spread of HIV began at the end of the 1980s, more than 7 million people in the region have become infected. In the year 2003 alone, it is estimated t...

A reference to the 150 plant species most commonly used for medicinal purposes in the Republic of Korea. Each entry contains information on the scientific name of the plant, Korean name, English common name, parts used, and clinical uses in traditional Korean medicine.

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The rapid advances that have been made in molecular biology and molecular methods have led, and continue to lead, to the development of sensitive and specific diagnostic tests, which hold the promise of substantially strengthening our ability to diagnose, treat and control many of the major infectious diseases in developing countries. It is imperative that these new diagnostics are rigorously and properly evaluated in the situations in which t...