High-level panel’s recommendations would complement UNDP efforts

New York — UNDP welcomes today’s adoption by the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, & Malaria of recommendations by an independent panel for scaled-up oversight and…

A young girl is receiving HPV caccine in a clinic. Soure: PAHO

According to a news source from Medscape Today on Sept 28th, it is…

Targeted Request for Proposals (RFP):

Exploring the mechanisms for HIV persistence and the potential for HIV eradication

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A Statement from forwarded State Enterprise Workers Relations Confederation (SERC) by the Asian Human Rights Commission

For Immediate Release…

Conclusion: According to the result, for prevent HIV/AIDS among MSM in Thailand, the project manager should provide intervention by establishing a community based friend center for the effectiveness could increase. Most NGOs who worked with the hard to reach population had its strategy as major standpoint. Project on establishing a community based friend center, local governments were becoming important on resources so capacity enhancement was needed. Special permissions to…

A news source from  Medscape today  stated that the findings of a new meta analysis study shows alcohol consumption is found to be strongly and dose-dependently associated with the colorectal cancer risk.

Veronika Fedirko, PhD, with the International Agency for Research on Cancer, in Lyon, France, and colleagues reported their findings in the September issue of the Annals of Oncology.

According to the researchers, several…

An area being fumigated for mosquitoes in Lahore September 14, 2011. Source: Reuters…

Center  for Health  System  Research, Hanoi Medical University would  like  to  announce  to  you  about a short-term training course with following details: 

-       Name of the course:  “Introduction to designing and conducting stated preference studies” 

-       Time: 05 – 07 October,  2011 (03 days)

-       Venue: Hanoi Medical University 

-       Training objectives: 

• To introduce participants to the use of stated preference (SP) methods to…

Detection of HIV-1 viruses in tears of patients even nder long-term highly active antiretroviral therapy.…

There have been at least 5 Lancet Series with specific geographical focus on Asia. These include the China series in 2008 (Health Systems Reform in China) and 2010 (China's Health Reform Revisited) folowed by the India series (…

The Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh began his official visit to Bangladesh this week. In this occasion, a number of eminent public sector leaders and public health experts from the two countries have delivered a joint letter to the Prime Ministers of both countries asking them to put public health collaboration high on the agenda. A copy of the letter is provided below.    …

I was screening through the Bangkok Post as I usually do everyday, and I came across an article by Dr. Samlee Plianbangchang, Regional Director, WHO SEARO. The last time I saw him was several months ago in Geneva at the World Health Assembly. To all of us working in public health, what Dr. Samlee advocates for is well-accepted and much understood. What is interesting for me is that this is an article for the general public, which attempts to advocate pro-active public engagement in health…

Representatives from the five nations comprising the Asian Network—Thailand, China, India, Bangladesh and Vietnam, and two observers from Japan—met in Khon Kawn, Thailand 15-17 August to finalize a common protocol for a situation analysis survey. Recognizing that there is an urgent need to change the mainstream of health professionals’ education from the rigid, science-based model derived from Flexner’s report to a more flexible and competency-based education that is responsive to the health…

A group of healthy elderly Japanese exercise in the grounds of Tokyo temple in Japan, the country which has the highest life expectancy in the world. Source:…

Michael Maurice Engelgau, Sameh El-Saharty, Preeti Kudesia, Vikram Rajan, Sandra Rosenhouse, Kyoko Okamoto

Published by World Bank in June 2011

Increasing life expectancy in…