Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Oncology, Cancer Biology, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt __________________________________________________________________________________ *Correspondence:...

This article briefly describes key features of the 1994 Cairo Plan of Action and US population assistance, and identifies US efforts to implement the Cairo agenda. US leadership and funding play a key role in global population stabilization issues. Opponents of population assistance in recent years have been undermining the US position as a world leader in global stabilization and restricting...

Rising rates of invasive fungal infections may be linked to global climate change. A study was made of the trend of ophthalmic fungal corneal keratitis in the greater Cairo area of Egypt and its association with climate records during the same period. Data on diagnosed cases of fungal keratitis were collected from records of ophthalmic departments of Cairo University hospital and atmospheric te...

Schielke, Samuli 2020. Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States. Cairo: The American University Cairo Press. 137 p. ISBN: 9789774169564 (paperback)

In 1945, the Cairo Academy for the Arabic Language opened a contest to find the best project for simplification of the Arabic writing system. They received about 200 replies. We have chosen three of these projects (a preliminary project by an Academy subcommitee, and projects by Ahmed Lakhdar-Ghazal and Yahya Boutemene) and have implemented them via theΩ typesetting system. In this paper we des...

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Fertility transitions are historically thought to have started in cities and then spread to the rest of the country. This would suggest that in Egypt wewould find that Cairo was well ahead of the rest of the nation in its fertility transition. The data suggest otherwise and highlight the fact that many parts of Cairo are still experiencing high levels of fertility. Population geographers have g...

The Ninth meeting of the WHO Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Leprosy Control was held in Cairo, Egypt on 6th and 7th March 2008. The meeting was chaired by Professor W.C.S. Smith and attended by national leprosy programme managers from Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cambodia, Egypt, Iran, India, Nigeria and Thailand. In addition, several experts and members of the Technical Commiss...

1National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo, Egypt. 2Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. 3Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. ABSTRACT Treatment failure is a serious problem facing some national tuberculosis (TB) control programmes. Irregularity of treatment is a f...