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The outgoing Director-General of the World Health Organization, Gro Harlem Brundtland, has successfully returned health issues to the international arena. The new Director-General will have to cope with reduced control over funding, debate over WHO's mandate, and the relationships between WHO and other organisations. Despite the broad role described in WHO's constitution, many groups see WHO's ...

The proposed plan consists of three parts: (1) a programme for the promotion of community water fluoridation and other approved methods for the prevention of dental caries; (2) a plan for coordinated study and research into the etiology and prevention of dental caries and related problems; and (3) a plan for an information gathering and dissemination system which is expected to link the prevent...

Professor Lawrence Gostin is the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Professor Gostin is the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights. He serves on the Director-General’s Advisory Committee on R...

background: India has rapidly scaled up its programme for antiretroviral therapy (ART). There is high potential for the emergence of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR), with an increasing number of patients on ART. It is not feasible to perform testing for HIVDR using laboratory genotyping, owing to economic constraints. This study piloted World Health Organization (WHO) early-warning indicators (EWIs...

As a trained gynaecologist with more than twenty years of service in Africa and other resource-poor settings, I have seen first hand the urgent need to expand access to sexual and reproductive health services. In 1994, I founded the International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH) in Ghent, Belgium and Kenya to respond to the devastating impacts of HIV and AIDS. As a multidisciplinary centre...

A village of 5000 people in Africa will never justify the building of a new tuberculosis (TB) clinic. In Kenya, such a village will produce 25 new cases of TB each year, not all of whom will seek care. The costs of bricks and mortar, equipment, drugs and support make serving these people virtually impossible within government health care systems. As the World Health Organization (WHO) takes up ...