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The purpose of having reference substances and infrared reference spectra is to achieve accuracy and reproducibility of analytical results required by pharmacopoeial testing and pharmaceutical control in general. These substances and infrared spectra are normally prepared and issued by the regional/national pharmacopoeial commission or the regional/national quality control laboratory on behalf of the drug regulatory authority. The general use of a reference substance or ...
C'est en 1945, & San-Francisco, A la ConfCrence des Nations Unies sur l'organisation internationale, que fut proposCe la rCunion d'une confCrence internationale en vue de 1'Ctablissement d'une nouvelle organisation mondiale de la sant6. La ConfCrence, reconnaissant l'importance vitale de la sant6 comme Sun des facteurs ndcessaires & la realisation des (( conditions de stabilitk et de prosp6ritd )) dans tous les pays du monde, considCra la (( santC )) comme Ctant l'une de...
Smallpox is transferred direct from person to person in a continuing chain of transmission, and there is no recognized animal reservoir of the disease (WHO Expert Coinmittee on Smallpox Eradication, 1972). It is generally believed that a patient is infectious to others from the time the disease is inanifesl. In tracing the sonrce of an infection, therefore, it is usual to look for a smallpox patient from whom the new case might have caught the virus. The household contac...
Among the cases of malaria following blood transfusion that have been recorhed i n recent years there has been a predominance of infection caused by Plasmodium malariae (Lupagco e t a l . , 1963; Lepes, 1965; Duhanina & iukova, 1965; iukova, 1967). Tho r e l a t i v e increase i n the number of cases caused by P. malariae following blood transfusion is ascribed by many authors to the f a c t that the causative agent . gives r i s e t o the most protracted period of sympt...
The author points out that, with the development of technology in industry and the resultant more-technical roles demanded of workers, communication between them and between all persons in an industrial organization becomes of primary importance. This is particularly so because of the constant demands for change within an industrial organization. Any change, however minor, will inevitably involve a wide area of the organization, and special attention will therefore have ...
INTRODUCCION En muchos paises, el costo de la asistencia mtdica individual ha aumentad0 mis rapidamente que el product0 nacional bruto y, a1 mismo tiempo, el increment0 de la seguridad social se ha visto entorpecido
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Ce relev6 est publit par la Section des Conventions Sanitaircs et de la Quarantline de I'Organiution Mondiale de la Smtt, qui, en vertu des Accords mternationaux signis P New-York le 22 juillet 1946, remplace les services tpldtmiologiques de l'Office Internatlonal dDHygi&ne Publique de Paris, de la SocittC des Nat~ons et de l'UNRRA. 11 rtsulte de la fusion de leurs periodiques hebdomndaires et bi-mensuels. Les notificahons relatives aux mala&es pestilentielles sont publi...
Les travaux préparatoires et la réunion d’experts convoquée pour établir le présent rapport ont été coordonnés par le Secrétariat mixte FAO/OMS sur l’évaluation des risques microbiologiques dans les aliments, notamment par Sarah Cahill, Maria de Lourdes Costaricca et Jean Louis Jouve à la FAO, et par Peter Karim BenEmbarek. Jocelyne Rocourt, Hajime Toyofuku et Jorgen Schlund à l’OMS. Le secrétariat a été appuyé par Kaye Wachsmuth qui a coordonné la préparation des docume...
RECALLING the conclusions of the First Meeting of Health Ministers of the WHO South-East Asia Region, wherein it was noted that there was a great potential for establishing technical cooperation among Member States and a need to formulate time-bound action plans for cooperation and collaboration,
The objective of sunreillance is not simply to collect and collate information, but also to contribute to the protection of public health by promoting the improvement of water supply with respect to quality, quantity, coverage, cost and continuity. Clearly, the aim of a sunreillance programme is to generate data that lead to optimization of activities and investment and thence to improved drinking-water supplies. Data analysis and interpretation are therefore fundamental...
false positive reactions has lent further importance to this subject. Foremost in this connexion are the specitic procedures discovered by Nelson and his co-workers in the form of the Treponema pallidum immobilization test and immune-adherence reaction, both of which are discussed in other papers in this Bulletin. The fact that such verification procedures are available has stimulated clinicians to look for and set apart these non-syphilitic reactions from those of true ...
Introduction L'Bge le plus indique pour la primovaccination antivariolique a fait l'objet d'un certain nombre d'etudes et de bien des controverses, surtout depuis dix ans. I1 etait classiquement admis jusque-15 que la frhquence des complications graves - encephalite postvaccinale par exemple - augmentait avec lli?ige de fason continue, mais Conybeare (1964) en Grande-Bretagne et Neff et al. (1967) et Lane et al. (1969) aux Etats-Unis sont Venus soutenir que la vaccinatio...
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 du Conseil sanitaire ...
La violenza accorcia la vita di millonal di persone in tutto ll mondo ogni anno, e danneggia la vita di molte ditre persone. Non conosce confini geografici, di razza, eta o reddito, colpisce I bambini, le donne e gll anzioni.
Une injection sfire ne met en danger ni la personne qui la re~oitn, i la personne qui l'administre, ni le reste de la communautk. Chaque annke, dans le monde, l'utilisation abusive des injections se combine aux pratiques dangereuses pour causer 8 ii 16 millions de cas d'infection par le virus de l'hepatite B, 2.3 i 4.7 millions de cas d'infection par le virus de l'hepatite C, et de 80,000 a 160,000 cas d'infection HIV.* Parmi les pratiques dangereuses, la reutilisation d...
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading causes of death and disability and appear to have been so for at least the last two decades of the 20th century. Disease rates from these conditions ase accelerating globally, advancing across regions and social classes. The high cun-ent burdens of NCDs are highlighted by the estimates provided by the World Health Report 2000, which indicate that these disorders together contributed to almost 60% of global mortality (3 1.7 ...
Merca District is the Project's Additional Working Area. 100 km from Mogadishu, it lies cast of and adjoining toKoryole District and covers approximately 1 428 km 2 in area. The population is approximately 125 000, residing in 192 villages, of whom 62 000 are nomads. Agricultural practices and main crops are similar to those in Koryole District
INTRODUCTION L'action des amino-4 quinoleines (chloroquine, amodiaquine) reste remarquable sur Plasmodium falciparum dans toutes les regions 05 ne sont pas apparues de souches de ce plasmodium resistantes B ces antipaludiques, ce qui, jusqu'8 ce jour, reste le cas de 1'Afrique dans son ensemble (Jeffery & Gibson, 1966; Org. mond. Sante Ser. Rapp. techn., 1967; Ricosse et al., 1967; Charmot, 1969; Bruce-Chwatt, 1970; Picq et al., 1970; Richard-Lenoble et al. , 1971).
Forecasts of tuberculosis morbidity and mortality are presented for the decade 1990-99. An estimated 88 million new cases of tuberculosis, of which 8 million will be attributable to HIV infection, will occur in the world during the decade; 30 million people are predicted to die of tuberculosis in the same period, including 2.9 million attributable to HIV infection.