Antibiotics: Responding to a Global Challenge

Antibiotics: Responding to a Global Challenge

The miracle of antibiotics is hard to exaggerate. Each day, in every corner of the world, antibiotics improve, or could be improving outcomes in the septic neonate, the child with pneumonia, the new mother after a complicated delivery, the patient undergoing surgery, the nursing home resident with a urinary tract infection, the patient being treated of cancer, or the trauma patient on life supp...

Child injuries and violence: responding to a global challenge.

a Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. b Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America. Hyder paper. Correspondence to Charles Mock (e-mail: [email protected]). Injuries and violence are a significant cause of chil...

Responding to the Environmental Challenge

Profile Pakistan's leather industry is one of the major foreign exchange earners for the country. About 90% of its products are exported in finished form. During 1996-97, the production of leather was about 14.3 million m and export earning amounted to US$ 642 million. There are some 600 tanneries in the formal sector and an equally large number of tanneries in the informal sector. These are co...

Mycotoxins, a Major Challenge in Global Food Security

Responding to the Challenge of Global Change in Africa: the Role of Geospatial Information technologies

Global and regional scale changes are now being recognized and felt in Africa in form of environmental, socioeconomic and geo-political alterations driven by the demographic shift. The regional environmental changes are by far among the most serious, threatening human and natural systems and intercepting development of the continent. The environmental changes are consequently influencing the de...