a World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. b Department of Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Jai P Narain (email: [email protected]) The South-East Asia (SEA) Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), home to 26% of the world popul...

We investigate projected 2000–2050 changes in concentrations of aerosols in China and the associated transboundary aerosol transport by using the chemical transport model GEOS-Chem driven by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) general circulation model (GCM) 3 at 4× 5 resolution. Future changes in climate and emissions projected by the IPCC A1B scenario are imposed separately and tog...

In a recent issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (APJMT), the importance of empowering medical toxicology in the Asia Pacific Region has been discussed. In the editorial by Dr. Afshari, it has been stated that national societies of medical toxicology are important infrastructure for the development of medical toxicology, and the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology ...

Space sprays for the control of adult mosquito populations are widely used by mosquito control groups throughout the world both for the pest and vector species. In the South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions, adulticiding is especially used to control vectors during epidemic outbreaks of mosquito-borne arboviruses such as dengue and Japanese encephalitis. Space sprays may be applied as ther...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the most common malignancy and cause of can‐ cer related death worldwide, with a high prevalence in Asia and south Africa as well as an increasing incidence in the western country. Patients with liver cirrhosis are at highest risk of developing this malignant disease, and the majority of HCC patients will develop the dis‐ ease on the background of preexis...

In Asia, contact between persons and nonhuman primates is widespread in multiple occupational and nonoccupational contexts. Simian foamy viruses (SFVs) are retroviruses that are prevalent in all species of nonhuman primates. To determine SFV prevalence in humans, we tested 305 persons who lived or worked around nonhuman primates in several South and Southeast Asian countries; 8 (2.6%) were conf...

The primary liver cancer (PLC) is the fifth most common cancer in men and the seventh most common cancer in women, worldwide, with the 85% of PLC occurring in developing countries1. In fact, the rates in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia and Middle and Western Africa are the highes. Interestingly, in developed countries such as North America and Europe, rates are generally lower2. The high mortali...

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cause of cancer and the sixth leading cause of cancer death among men worldwide with an estimated 899,000 new cases and 258,000 new deaths in 2008. Out of this 72% of the cases and 53% of the deaths were found in developed countries representing <20% of the world population. Prostate cancer incidence rates varied 24-fold worldwide in 2008 with the...

INTRODUCTION Over the past 20 years the WHO has considerably improved world mortality data. There are still shortcomings but more countries now report data and world-wide estimates are regularly made. METHODS Data about mortality have been retrieved from the WHO world database. Worldwide injury mortality estimates for 2008 as well as trends of the suicide rate from 1950 to 2009 were analysed....