The Global Fight Against Dementia

The Global Fight against the Stigma of Schizophrenia

0597 The stigma attached to mental illness is the greatest obstacle to the improvement of the lives of people with mental illness and their families [1]. Such stigma results in (1) a lower priority for mental health services, (2) diffi culty getting staff of good quality to work in these services, (3) continuing problems in fi nding employment and housing for people who have had an episode of m...

Political priority in the global fight against non–communicable diseases

BACKGROUND The prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) - such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic respiratory diseases - is surging globally. Yet despite the availability of cost-effective interventions, NCDs receive less than 3% of annual development assistance for health to low and middle income countries. The top donors in global health - including the Bill and Me...

Where are we in the Global Fight against TB?

Full Article (HTML)PDF(54K)ReferencesWeb of Science® Times Cited: 5 Government of India (2009) http://www.tbcindia.org/pdfs/TB%20India%202009.pdf (accessed 4 August 2009). Grange JM, Kapata N, Chanda D, Mwaba P & Zumla A (2009) The biosocial dynamics of tuberculosis. TropicalMedicine & International Health 14, 124–130.

The Fight against Poliomyelitis

The Fight against Poliomyelitis