[PDF] Top 20 CD39.R10: Tuberculosis in the Americas

... Acknowledging the declaration by the World Health Organization that tuberculosis represents a global health emergency and the establishment by the World Health Assembly of global ... See full document

... thank the Director and the Secretariat, and particularly the personnel assigned to Guatemala, for the assistance given to that country in connection with the earthquake of 4 ... See full document

... Bearing in mind that the proposed program and budget estimates are submitted to the Directing Council as Regional Committee of the World Health Organization for the Americas, for ... See full document

... Herds and/or areas will be declared of- ficially free from bovine tuberculosis when at least three tuberculin tests carried out on all cattle over six weeks of [r] ... See full document

... Appropriate analysis of the data on incidence and mortality, accompanied whenever possible by information on the risk of tuberculosis infection or the prevalence of infecti[r] ... See full document

... The work of the brigades in urban areas, which usually have Chest Clinics, ordinarily consists of taking X-rays and channeling persons with apparently positive readings to the Health Cen[r] ... See full document

... Thus the elements of tuberculosis control are very simple, but their application to local circumstances will require, in each case, an experimental study of the m a gnitude of the proble[r] ... See full document

... Having reviewed the report of the Director on the progress made by the Expanded Program on Immunization and the regional initiative for the elimination of measles from the Americas by t[r] ... See full document

... put into effect in the developed and the developing countries may be attributed to a number of factors: in both instances, resistance on the part of specialized[r] ... See full document

... Industrial workers as a group will continue to loom large in future mass radiog- raphy plans; however, a program is already under way, through the cooperative effo[r] ... See full document

... analyze the temporal trends of the incidence and prevalence of tuberculosis, with and without HIV co-infection, as well as of the associated mortality, in Brazil, the ... See full document

... analyze the temporal trends of the incidence and prevalence of tuberculosis, with and without HIV co-infection, as well as of the associated mortality, in Brazil, the ... See full document

... request the Director to establish, with extra-budgetary funds, a special program for HIV/AIDS research in the Americas which will be sufficiently flexible and responsive to the many ... See full document

... to the Director that PAHO continue strengthening its collaboration with diabetes associations and other nongovernmental organizations, promote an integrated approach to noncommunicable diseases within which ... See full document

... The following problems encountered in the integration of control activities within general health services were re- ported in 1973 and 1978: resistance to change by [r] ... See full document

... However, an analysis of the information available for a group of Latin American countries (Table 1) shows a very moderate downward trend (5 per cent annually) in m[r] ... See full document

... (b) To support implementation of the PAHO Regional Plan of Action for the prevention of AIDS in the Americas, maintaining the public health perspective in national actions;. (c) To prom[r] ... See full document

... Despite the fact that efficient methods of treatment are available, tuberculosis continues to be a significant health problem in the Americas. The goal of eliminat[r] ... See full document

... possesses the functional structure and capacity to provide technical cooperation for the prevention of infection by HIV and other sexually transmitted pathogens and for the clinical management and ... See full document

... recommend the establishment of goals that should be attained as far as possible in the next ten years in order to make it possible to eliminate tuberculosis as a public health problem ... See full document