Who Votes in East Asia?

Leptospirosis situation in the WHO South-East Asia Region

Who Counts Your Votes?

Open and fair elections are paramount to modern democracy. Although some people claim that the penciland-paper systems used in countries such as Canada and UK are still the best method of avoiding vote rigging, recent election problems have sparked great interest in managing the election process through the use of electronic voting systems. It is a goal of this paper to describe a voting system...

Tuberculosis in the WHO South-East Asia Region.

a World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, Indraprastha Estate, New Delhi, 110 002, India. b World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Nani Nair (e-mail: [email protected]). One-third of the world’s burden of tuberculosis (TB), or about 4.9 million prevalent cases, is found in the World Health Organization (WHO) SouthEast A...

Rheumatology in East Asia

Europe and North America have been leaders in rheumatology for many years. However, for more than a decade now the East Asian region has been catching up dramatically. Some aspects of rheumatology in East Asia are now almost comparable to those in the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). In this article, we describe recent progress in rheuma...

Opening Remarks By Dr Samlee Plianbangchang Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia At Meeting of National Leprosy Programme Managers of WHO South-East Asia Region