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Important WHO News!
The new WHO HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care Protocols for the European Region are now available in Russian.
The protocols can be downloaded from
http://www.euro.who.int/eprise/main/WHO/Progs/SHA/treatment/20060801_1
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WHO to launch first essential medicines list for children
A list of essential paediatric medicines is sorely needed. The World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicines list, first launched in
1977, is predominantly for adults. It includes some dosages for children, but in most cases formulations for children simply do not exist.
Children cannot be treated as “little adults” when it comes to medicines. “Children differ in the way they ingest, absorb, metabolize
and excrete drugs, and behavioural and developmental issues complicate their treatment,” said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in a report last year.
Additional information is available in:
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/4/07-010407/en/index.html
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“22 FEBRUARY 2007 | GENEVA -- Today, Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), named her senior team to lead the health programmes, or "clusters" at WHO headquarters. Dr Chan also announced a revised structure including three new clusters, in order to realign WHO's structure with the six core areas she has identified to take WHO's work forward: health development, health security, health systems capacity, evidence and information, partnership, and performance.
The senior team:
- Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, as previously announced, as Deputy Director-General
- Dr Ala Alwan, Assistant Director-General of a new cluster for Health Action in Crises (formerly a WHO programme)
- Dr Tim Evans, Assistant Director-General of a new cluster for Information, Evidence and Research
- Dr David Heymann, Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases and Representative of the Director-General for the Polio Eradication Initiative
- Dr Catherine Le Galès-Camus continues as Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health
- Dr Elizabeth Mason, Assistant Director-General, ad interim, for Family and Community Health
- Dr Hiroki Nakatani, Assistant Director-General for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Dr Anders Nordström, Assistant Director-General of a new cluster for Health Systems and Services
- Ms Namita Pradhan, Assistant Director-General for General Management
- Ms Susanne Weber-Mosdorf continues as Assistant Director-General for Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, and Representative of the Director-General on European Union Affairs
- Dr Howard Zucker continues as Assistant Director-General for Health, Technology and Pharmaceuticals and Representative of the Director-General on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Public Health
In addition, Dr Chan has announced:
- Mr Denis Aitken as Representative of the Director-General for a new programme on Partnerships and UN Reform
- Dr Bill Kean to continue as Executive Director of the Director-General's Office
- Mr Liu Peilong to continue as an Adviser to the Director-General
- Mr Andrey Pirogov to continue as Assistant Director-General of the WHO Office at the United Nations in New York
- Dr Ian Smith to continue as an Adviser to the Director-General.“
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From the Pain & Policy Studies Group:
Country Profiles on Opioid Availability
“ Those who want to understand and improve access to essential opioid pain relief medications in their countries should know basic information about drug control policy, administration and availability. PPSG has assembled key information from several sources and has developed a Country Profile for each country in the world. The Country Profiles are being made freely available using the menu that is provided below. The Profiles will be updated as new information becomes available. Comments are welcome; send to: Jody Garthwaite - [email protected].”
Pain & Policy Studies Group
University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center
World Health Organization Collaborating Center
406 Science Drive, Suite 202
Madison, WI 53711-1068
You may learn more about the profiles of individual countries by going to the following URL:
http://www.painpolicy.wisc.edu/internat/countryprofiles.htm
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From the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
"The mission of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association is to promote excellence in end-of-life nursing through education and research. HPNA has more than 30 educational products and numerous educational services available to all levels of the nursing team. We encourage you to visit our website at www.hpna.org to learn more about us. We would love to hear from our international friends. Please contact Deena Butcher at [email protected] to learn more about a brief survey available to you to tell us more about how HPNA can help you."
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International Program of Psycho-Social Health Research (PP-SHR)
“PP-SHR is a collaborative initiative jointly funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council and Central Queensland University. The primary aim of this international program in research is to examine and document the human experience of serious illness (both physical and mental). Thus, IPP-SHR is a broad program addressing a wide range of topic areas including: haematology/oncology; mental health; palliative care; acute medicine; bioethics; rural and remote health; Indigenous health; spirituality; paediatrics; birth studies; and service delivery evaluation.
In essence the program is concerned with contributing to the development of psycho-social services that assist people to deal with the many challenges associated with serious physical and/or mental illness. The core work is to ‘make a difference’ and this is achieved through research, publication, education and consultancy activities.
Current projects and previous projects are available through expanding menus on the left and all other information related to IPP-SHR is at the top of the page. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any information/ queries or to make submissions to Psycho-Social Update and our affliated journal the Austral-Asian Journal of Cancer (AJC).
Please see the Haematology and Palliative Care Booklet on the website. You may receive it by post or download from the website. To date 3,000 copes of the booklet have been sent worldwide and just under 2,000 have been downloaded.”
Hamish Holewa, Program Manager.
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