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Bucella ovis est l'un des agents Ctiologiques de I'kpididymite du bilier. I1 n'y a aucune mtthode diagnostique qui soit fiable, B elle seule, au niveau individuel, et l'on obtient les meilleurs rCsultats en associant I'examen clinique, la sirologie et la culture. On ne peut pas fonder le diagnostic sur l'examen clinique, car d'autres agents provoquent des Cpididymites de mCmes formes cliniques et, d'un autre cBtk, certains bkliers infectks par B. ovis ne prCsentent pas d...
L'exptrience a montrt que la carence en iode est le facteur Ctiologique essentiel du goitre endtmique, et que, pour la pallier, la prophqlaxie par l'iode a t t t appliquee avec succks. En Suisse par exemple l%h la prophylaxie par l'iode a ete introduite depuis plus de 30 ans, le goitre endtmique a t t t pratiquement tlimint sans que l'usage du sel iodt n'ait entrain6 de constquences pathologiques. I1 est donc, k premitre we: etrange de constater que quelques pays seuleme...
Dracunculiasis (or guinea worm disease) is a disease endemic in certain communities without access to safe sources of drinking-water and which has serious adverse effects on health, agricultural production and school attendance. Absent from Pakistan since 1993, dracunculiasis still occurs in India and Yemen, where 10 million people are considered at risk. The disease is also found in 16 countries of East and West Africa where an estimated 120 million persons are at risk ...
Subsequently the material was reviewed by members of the Tokyo Conference, by members of the Expert Advisory Panel on Nursing, and by WHO staf members in various parts of the world. A second draft was completed by Elizabeth Hilborn in December 1958 and distributed for review in a variety of situations in many countries. Suggestions as to uses for the guide, its content, and its form were contributed by readers in the diferent countries and used in the preparation of the ...
1. COMPLETED EXERCISE 1 FROM CHAPTER 3 1. At which sites will the cost analysis be undertaken? Guguletu District, Cape Town, South Africa 2. What question(s) is the cost and cost-effectiveness analysis addressing? Is community-based DOT more affordable (i.e. lower cost) and more cost-effective than clinic-based DOT for new smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Cape Town, South Africa? 3. What will be the perspective of the evaluation? Societal – patient, heal...
The World Health Organization has recugnired are sponsibility Lo assume a lead rolein glohal efforts to combat the pandemic of infectioli wich the Iluman immunodeficiency virus (HXV).
The third meeting of the EPI Global Advisory Group took place on 20-23 October 1980 m Geneva. The following are the conclusions and ~ecommendationso f the group. The EPI Global Advisory Group affirms the continuing relevance of the conclusions and recommendations offered during its previous meetmgs? They serve as background for those which follow.
L'utilisation de lignees cellulaires continues commessubstrats pour la propagation de virus et la croissance de vecteurs recombinants , en vue de produire des antigenes utilisables comme vaccins , fait depuis longtrmps l'objet de discussions portant principalemant sur l'innocuite du vaccin et plus particulierement la possibilite d'induire une transformations chez le receveur du produit .
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PREFACE This manual was written by Mr Adrian Griffiths, Director of Research of the Hcalth Management Institute (Hh.II), Geneva, under a contractual service agreement between HMI and the World Health Organization Action Programme on Essential Drugs and Vaccincs WAF').
Ce communique contient les inIormations recues par l'Office International d'Hygibne publique en execution de la Convention sanitaire internationale de 1926, directement ou par l'intermediaire des Bureaux suivants, agissant comme Bureaux regionarzx pour I'application de cette Convention: Bureau d'Extreme-Orient de I'Organisation d'hygiene de la Soeiete des Nations, Singapour. Bureau Sanitaire Panambrieain., Washington. Bureau Regional d'lnformations sanita...
The opening session of the conference was addressed by Dr Salah Baghdadi, Director of Programme and Contracts Department, Medical Services, Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, on behalf of the Saudi Medical Journal. He noted the interest of the Saudi Medical Journal not only in being a medium for publishing articles, but as a means of education and academic leadership. The Conference was inaugurated by Dr Abdullah Assa'edi, Assistant Regional Director, on behalf of Dr Hussein...
The Intercountry Meeting for the NationaL Directors and Managers of Educational Development Centres was convened by the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO), and held under the patronage of H.E+ the Minister of Health, Dr A1 Hadi M'henni in Tunis, Tunisia, from 22 to 25 May 1995. Mr Eddy Haarman, Resident Representative of the united Nations Development Programme in Tunis, also took part in the meeting. After the welcome address by Dr Noureddine Achou...
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Between 1941, w11en Gregg demonstrated the cor- relation between rubclla infection of presnant \vomen and conenital cataract of the ncwborn, and 1962. when arkm man et a]. and Weller & Neva isolated the rubella virus, most studies of the disease were clinical and epidcmiological. Since 1963, the determinatrol~ of rubella antibodies has become possible, and from 1967, when Stewart et al, described the haenlagglutination-1ohibitlon (HI) test, mass-screening studies began....
introduction huTmhaen G liombmauln oAdIeDfSi cSiternactye gviyr uhsa s (tHhIrV)ef ;o bj(e2c)t itvoe sr:e duc(1e) tthoe ppreervseonnta l tahned trsoacnisamli ssimipoanc ot f of HIV infection; and (3) to unify national and international efforts against AIDS. The World Health Organization and the United Nations General Assembly have called upon all countries to establish national AIDS prevention and control programmes in conformity with the Global AIDS Strategy.
INTRODUCTION L'hygiPne hospitalihre sera trait6e ici dans son sens dtrolt : la prevention des infections hospitalisres. On appelle infection hospitaliere une infection acquise P l'hapital pat un patient qui a 6th admis pour une autre raison que cette infection. Si avant l'&re des antibiotiques la plupart des infections hospitalieres dtaient dues A des germes d'origine extdrieure (salmonellose provenant d'aliments infectds, gangrene bact6- rienne, etc.), ou P des germes n...
HEALTW1OOO A blueprint for reorganizing Sri Lanka's Ministry of Health Government White Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ROUND TABLE Traditional medicine in modern health care R. H. Banneman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Discussion: Pad C. Y. Chen, Otto R. Gottleb) Dan N. Lantum) G. B. Matini Bettolo) Ivan Poiunin) HaWm Mohammed Said) K.N. Udupa, Helga Velimimic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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