Based on: (1) World Health Organization. Adherence to long-term therapies. Evidence for action. Geneva: WHO; 2003. (2) World Health Organization. Failure to take prescribed medicine for chronic diseases is a massive, world-wide problem [press release]. Available from: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/releases/2003/pr54/en/. Accessed 7 September 2003. Around the world, public health efforts to dea...

In his recent study, Gordon Shen analyses a pertinent question facing the global mental health research and practice community today; that of how and why mental health policy is or is not adopted by national governments. This study identifies becoming a World Health Organization (WHO) member nation, and being in regional proximity to countries which have adopted a mental health policy as suppor...

BACKGROUND Despite the severe impact of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, the health of older people aged 50+ is often overlooked owing to the dearth of data on the direct and indirect effects of HIV on older people's health status and well-being. The aim of this study was to examine correlates of health and well-being of HIV-infected older people relative to HIV-affected people in rural South Africa,...

INTRODUCTION HIV self-testing (HIVST) has the potential to increase uptake of HIV testing among untested populations in sub-Saharan Africa and is on the brink of scale-up. However, it is unclear to what extent HIVST would be supported by stakeholders, what policy frameworks are in place and how variations between contexts might influence country-preparedness for scale-up. This qualitative study...

August 2005 | Volume 2 | Issue 8 | e227 The Free by 5 declaration (http:⁄⁄www.ukzn.ac.za/heard/ freeby5/freeby5.htm), launched in November 2004, is a campaign to achieve free access for all individuals with HIV to a comprehensive minimum medical package including antiretroviral treatment (ART). The declaration was developed in response to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United...

Geneva, 28 March 2006 – A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) shows that the number of people on HIV antiretroviral treatment (ART) in lowand middle-income countries more than tripled to 1.3 million in December 2005 from 400 000 in December 2003. Charting the final progress of the "3 by 5" strategy to expand access to HIV...

BACKGROUND In order to support cancer patients, nurses need to identify different physio-psycho- social needs of patients using a holistic approach. Focusing on Quality of Life (QoL) is congruent with the philosophy of a holistic approach in nursing. The main aim of this research study thus was to identify the level of agreement between cancer patients and nurses about cancer patients' QoL. M...

1 Forum for Collaborative HIV Research and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 2 WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring, Uppsala, Sweden, 3 School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 4 Quality Assurance and Safety: Medicines, Department of Essential Medicines an...

background: one of the most important goals of health care organizations is measuring and improving the quality of health care and reduction of adverse events. objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the degree of observance of the who surgical safety checklist at two hospitals in tehran. materials and methods: during this analytic cross-sectional study the degree of observance and th...