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Five years on and NCD policy still not ready

Himalayan Times - Feb 20, 2012
KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) had begun drafting a policy on non-communicable diseases five years ago. However, it still remains an unfinished job. The policy is being formulated as direct intervention to control NCDs at a ...

Expert Roundtable on Non-Communicable Diseases Emphasizes Prevention and ...

MarketWatch (press release) - Feb 17, 2012
NEW DELHI, February 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- India Health Progress (IHP) in association with Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) today organized an expert roundtable on 'Non-Communicable Diseases Burden in India: Strategizing the Way ...

Expert Roundtable on Non-Communicable Diseases Emphasizes Prevention and ...

Bradenton Herald - Feb 17, 2012
India Health Progress (IHP) in association with Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) today organized an expert roundtable on 'Non-Communicable Diseases Burden in India: Strategizing the Way Forward' at Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi.

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Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

The most widely recognized sourcebook on infectious diseases provides detailed, accurate, informative text for public health workers in official and voluntary health agencies, including those serving in the armed forces and other governmental agencies, and for all students of medicine. Each listing is easy to read and includes identification, infectious agent, occurrence, mode of transmission, incubation period, susceptibility and resistance. This 19th edition sticks to a tried and tested structure, but with every chapter updated by international experts at both CDC and WHO, priority has been given to ensuring global relevance New disease variants have been included and some chapters have been fundamentally reworked.
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The Origins of AIDS

by: Pepin
It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how urbanization, prostitution, and large-scale colonial medical campaigns intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide.
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Burton's Microbiology for the Health Sciences

by: Paul G. Engelkirk, Janet Duben-Engelkirk

Written in a straightforward and engaging style, this premier textbook provides students with the foundation in microbiology that they need to perform their day-to-day duties in a safe and knowledgeable manner. Coverage includes the core themes and concepts outlined for an introductory course by the American Society for Microbiology.

Developed for current and future healthcare professionals, the text offers vital coverage of antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents, epidemiology and public health, hospital-acquired infections, infection control, and the ways in which microorganisms cause disease.
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by: Laurie Garrett
Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases—HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others. Laurie Garrett takes you on a fifty-year journey through the world's battles with microbes and examines the worldwide conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of diseases migrating to new areas, and mutated old diseases that are no longer curable.
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WHO: Global Noncommunicable Disease Network

A short video produced for the launch by WHO of a network of organizations and experts from around the world to scale up action to combat noncommunicable diseases. The new Global Noncommunicable Disease Network (NCDnet) will strengthen global partnerships and help governments plan and implement measures to reduce the burden of these diseases. The Network will unite currently fragmented efforts by bringing the cancer, cardiovascular, diabetes and respiratory communities together with tobacco control, healthy diets and physical activity advocates. For more information: www.who.int

 

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UN High-level Meeting on non-communicable disease (NCDs) prevention and control (Trailer)

United Nations, New York, 20 June 2011 - The General Assembly in its resolution A/RES/65/238 decided that the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases shall be held on 19 and 20 September 2011 in New York and that the high-level meeting shall address the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide, with a particular focus on developmental and other challenges and social and economic impacts, particularly for developing countries. WHO related webpage - www.who.int General Assembly webpage - www.un.org

 

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The Challenge of Non-Communicable Diseases (Video)

ORIGINALLY RECORDED July 21, 2011 Experts discuss the importance of prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, as well as the need for the United States and the United Nations to play a larger role. SPEAKERS: Nils Daulaire, US Representative, Executive Board, World Health Organization; Director, Office of Global Affairs, Office of the Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund; Undersecretary-General, United Nations Derek Yach, Senior Vice President of Global Health and Agriculture Policy, PepsiCo PRESIDER: Sheri L. Fink, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation www.cfr.org

 

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Non-Communicable Diseases in the Gauteng province in SA: A Silent and Neglected Epidemic

Research Conference presented by Deb Basu