Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus is an ongoing public health and socio-economic challenge, particularly in South East Asia. H5N1 is now endemic in poultry in many countries, and represents a major pandemic threat. Here, we describe the evolution of H5N1 virus in South East Asia, the reassortment events leading to high genetic diversity in the region, and factors responsible f...

aWorld Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Amaya Maw-Naing (e-mail: [email protected]) Almost 30 years since it was first reported in 1983, the HIV epidemic remains a serious public health issue globally, and particularly in countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR). The overwhelming global efforts to combat HIV/AIDS over the pa...

HDSS Profile: The South East Asia Community Observatory Health and Demographic Surveillance System (SEACO HDSS) Uttara Partap, Elizabeth H Young, Pascale Allotey, Ireneous N Soyiri, Nowrozy Jahan, Kridaraan Komahan, Nirmala Devarajan, Manjinder S Sandhu and Daniel D Reidpath* Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK, Jeffrey Ch...

There is a longstanding history in South Asia of relations of exchange and interdependence between agriculturalists and peoples involved in the hunting of wild animals and the gathering of wild plants. These relationships, far from being an historically fixed and immutable, were instead marked by a high degree of variability and flexibility with specific groups of people altering their strategi...

This article presents an overview of marriage patterns in East Asia. Globally, marriage patterns are changing. In East Asia, cultural patterns are slowing the changes in attitude toward marriage that are occurring in the West. There are implications of changing attitudes for government planners. This issue of Asia-Pacific Population and Policy is based on a series of studies of marriage and...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to synthesise evidence on time trends of dementia prevalence in East Asian countries including Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan and assess the impact of the societal changes on future prevalence. METHOD Relevant reviews and recent nationwide studies in East Asia were identified to investigate changes in prevalence of dementia over time taking into account the pot...

Three new species of the genus Cypretta Vivra, 1985 are described from Southern Mexico, representing the first record of the genus in the country. Cypretta campechensis n. sp. is closely related to Florida and North Carolina species such as C. nigra Furtos, 1936, C. brevisaepta Furtos, 1934 and C. bilicis Furtos, 1936. Cypretta spinosa n. sp. is related to the North and South American species C...

The current distribution of biotic lineages that emerged in the deep time has both theoretical and practical implications, in particular for understanding the processes that have forged present-day biodiversity and informing local and regional-scale conservation efforts. To date however, there has been no examination of such patterns globally across taxa and geological time. Here we map the div...