AIDS summit approaches

Approaches to Enhance Driver Situational Assessment Aids

Collision warning systems encounter a fundamental trade‐off between providing the driver more time in which to respond and alerting the driver unnecessarily. The probability that a driver successfully avoids a hazard increases as the driver is provided more time and distance in which to identify the hazard and execute the most effective response. However, alerting the driver at earlier, more ...

HIV/AIDS, Food Insecurity, and GDP: In the background at the World Food Summit

Introduction The World Food Summit: Five Years Later was held in Rome from 10 through 13 June 2002. As in the World Food Summit (WFS) in 1996, the dominant frameworks five years later pitted a push for trade liberalisation against the right to food; open trade for the expansion of global markets versus pro-poor strategies that strengthen local resources, markets and strategies. Less attention w...

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of the programs (interventions) are on the horizon. Although such evaluations are not intended to be threatening , there is a pervasive fear that any findings that are critical will bear negatively on the ability to attract funds for future activities. But, the potential threat that could be associated with negatively perceived findings raises caution flags relative to participating in evaluati...

Growth and Development Summit

Brucellosis summit in Geneva.

The sixth meeting of the Joint FAD/WHO Expert Committee on Brucellosis, which was held in Geneva from 12to 19 November 1985, received a great deal less publicity than the USA-USSR political summit taking place nearby. Nevertheless, the Committee discussed important worldwide issues affecting human and animal health and reviewed the developments in brucellosis which have occurred since 1970, whe...