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      The STI/HIV Role of Public Policy in Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Guide to Laws, Regulations and Technical Guidelines

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      This publication explores issues related to the role of public health authorities in the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections.

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      STI/ HIV Sexually Transmitted Infections Prevalence Study Methodology: Guidelines for the Implementation of STI Prevalence Surveys

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      Describes a standardized survey methodology. It uses a simple, reliable and reproducible study design that can be used and implemented at the local level. The prevalence study is designed to…

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      STI/HIV Status and Trends of STI, HIV and AIDS at the End of the Millennium: Western Pacific Region, 1999

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      This report presents the status and trends of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), HIV and AIDS in the Western Pacific region based on the cumulative number of cases of HIV diagnoses…

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      STI/ HIV One Hundred Percent Condom Use Programme in Entertainment Establishments

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      When male customers of female sex workers do not use condoms, this often leads to HIV infections and to AIDS. This guide sets out the rationale for the 100 Per…

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      Assessing New Vaccines for National Immunization Programmes: A Framework to Assist Decision-Makers

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      This document aims to help policy makers when considering the addition of new vaccines to national immunization programmes. It reflects the growing international concerns that all children of the world…

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      Promoting Condoms in Clinics for Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Practical Guide for Programme Planners and Managers

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      This guide helps STI programme planners and managers to improve condom promotion among STI patients. It reviews: creating a favourable environment; training service providers; counselling clients on condom use; managing…

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      Giving Adolescents a Voice: Conducting a Rapid Assessment of Adolescent Health Needs: A Manual for Health Planners and Researchers

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      This manual provides a staged approach to develop and conduct a rapid assessment of adolescent health needs at the national level. A variety of methods and tools as options for…

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      WHO Guidelines for Quality Assurance of Traditional Medicine Education in the Western Pacific Region

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      These guidelines focus on good practices in traditional medicine ™ education and quality assurance. They are organized in two parts. Part A provides recommendations for good educational practices that would…

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      Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health Programmes: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals

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      Malaria remains a global public health problem. In the Western Pacific Region malaria is endemic in 10 countries. The incidence rate in the Region ranges from 161.7 per 1000 people…

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      Reaching the Poor: Challenges for Child Health in the Western Pacific Region

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      The WHO Western Pacific Region has achieved impressive gains in child survival but reaching poor or underserved communities with existing life-saving interventions remains one of the biggest challenges in reducing…

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      Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Youths in Korea: A Review of Literature and Projects 1990-2003

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      This is one of the reviews on the literature and projects of sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and youths in eight Asian countries. This volume deals with adolescent reproductive…

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      Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Youths in Malaysia: A Review of Literature and Projects 1990-2003

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      Malaysia participated in a case study on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in the form of a review of literature studies and projects initiated by the WHO Regional Office for…

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      Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Youths in Mongolia: A Review of Literature Projects and Case Study 2002

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      This is one of the reviews of literature and projects of sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and youths in eight Asian countries. Adolescents and youth make up one fourth…

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      People at the Centre of Health Care: Harmonizing Mind and Body, People and Systems

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      This book calls for a bold transformation of health care and health systems in the 21st century. Quality of care has become an increasingly important issue for the World Health…

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      Responding to Questions About the 100% Condom Use Programme: A Job Aid for Programme Staff

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      This booklet is intended to support technical staff who are planning to implement the 100% condom use programme. Content includes a sample of 25 questions and answers that have at…

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      Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health Programmes: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals: Module on Water Sanitation and Food

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      This module is designed to improve the awareness, knowledge and skills of health professionals regarding poverty and gender concerns in actions to improve access to clean water, adequate sanitation and…

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      Road Safety in the Western Pacific Region: Call for Action

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      More than 90% of road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. As most countries in the Western Pacific Region experience economic growth and motorization, road traffic injuries are…

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      Health Financing Strategy for the Asia Pacific Region (2010-2015)

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      The health financing strategy for the Asia Pacific Region (2010-2015) will help governments analyze their health financing situations and identify specific actions to achieve universal coverage. It was developed as…

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      WHO Guidelines for Quality Assurance of Basic Medical Education in the Western Pacific Region

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      This publication provides guidelines on educational standards as well as a framework for establishing a quality assurance system. It is organized in two parts: Part A provides recommendations for good…

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      Electronic Health Records: A Manual for Developing Countries

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      This manual has been designed as a basic reference for use when exploring the development and implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems. It provides a general overview, some basic…

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      Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health Programmes: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals

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      This module is one in the complete set entitled Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health Programmes: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals. It is designed to improve the awareness, knowledge and…

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      Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health Programmes: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals

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      The set of modules that comprise this Sourcebook are intended for use in pre-service and in-service training of health professionals. It is expected that this publication will also be of…

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      Health Promotion Financing Opportunities in the Western Pacific Region

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      Broadening health promotion financing arrangements contributes to the goal of health improvement shared by the countries of the Western Pacific Region. Health promotion that is sustainable underpin stable and effective…

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      Tonga Commitment to Promote Healthy Lifestyles and Supportive Environment

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      The Tonga Commitment to Promote Healthy Lifestyles and Supportive Environments is an outcome of the Meeting of Ministers of Health for the Pacific Island Countries held in Nuku'alofa, Tonga from…

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      WHO/UNICEF Regional Child Survival Strategy: Accelerated and Sustained Action Towards MDG 4

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      The joint WHO/UNICEF Regional Child Survival Strategy offers a unified direction and a description of the actions necessary to successfully implement life-saving interventions. It can be used to guide countries…

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      Medicinal Plants in Vietnam

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      Catalogues the 200 species of medicinal plants most commonly used in traditional Vietnamese medicine. The book has three main parts - the first describes research in Viet Nam conducted on…

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      Development of Food-Based Dietary Guidelines for the Western Pacific Region: The Shift from Nutrients and Food Groups to Food Availability, Traditional Cuisine and Modern Foods in Relation to Emerging Chronic Noncommuicable Diseases

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      Introduces the concept of food-based dietary guidelines as a powerful new tool for addressing the changing nutrition needs of Western Pacific countries. Food-based dietary guidelines, which emphasize specific foods dishes…

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      The Kingdom of Cambodia Health System Review

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      The Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of a health system and of reform and policy initiatives in progress or under development…

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      Practical Guidelines on Pharmaceutical Procurement for Countries with Small Procurement Agencies

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      Procurement is an important step for efficient drug management and supply, and has become a routine procedure in the existing drug management system in many countries. This booklet is intended…

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      Research Guidelines for Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Herbal Medicines

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      Sets out detailed guidelines for conducting scientific research on the safety and efficacy of herbal medicines. The guidelines which reflect the consensus reached by 17 experts in pharmacology biochemistry and…

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      Orientation on Harm Reduction. One-Hour Training Course: Participant Manual

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      This training package has been produced for audiences unfamiliar with harm reduction for injecting drug users. It provides an introduction to important concepts in HIV prevention for injecting drug users.

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      Orientation on Harm Reduction. Three-Hour Training Course: Participant Manual

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      This training package has been produced for audiences unfamiliar with harm reduction for injecting drug users. It provides an introduction to important concepts in HIV prevention for injecting drug users…

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      Guidelines for Scaling-Up 100% Condom Use Programme: Experience from Cambodia

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      In early 1998 the Ministry of Health of Cambodia and WHO’s Regional Office for the Western Pacific conducted a preliminary assessment on the HIV/AIDS situation in Cambodia and the possibility…

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      Medicinal Plants in Papua New Guinea: Information on 126 Commonly Used Medicinal Plants in Papua New Guinea

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      Traditional medicine, including the knowledge, skills and practices of holistic health care, exists in all cultures. It is based on indigenous theories, beliefs and experiences, and is widely accepted for…

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      Regional strategy to stop tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region 2011-2015: reaching out to all

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      Significant progress has been made in TB control in the Western Pacific Region in the past decade with a decline in the number of prevalent TB patients and the diagnosis…

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      Developing the Nursing Component in a National AIDS Prevention and Control Programme

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      Gives nurse managers and nurse educators practical advice on how to assess nursing needs for the care of HIV- and AIDS-infected patients and to organize the inclusion of these needs…

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      Sanitation and Hygiene in East Asia

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      Report prepared by the Thematic Working Group on Water, Hygiene and Sanitation for the Second East Asia Ministerial Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene, Manila, Philippines, 27-29 January 2010 –p. vi.

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      Enhancing Health Policy Development: A Practical Guide to Understanding the Legislative Process

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      This publication is intended as a guide to ministries of health to enhance their understanding of their country’s legislative structure and process. Concise descriptions are provided of the difference between…

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      Integrating HIV-Related Content into a Competency-Based Curriculum

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      Explains how curricula in schools of nursing can be modified to produce graduates who are competent in the performance of a wide range of tasks related to HIV infection and…

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      Investing in Our Future: A Framework for Accelerating Action for the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young People

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      It is crucially important to increase awareness of gender equality to provide analytical and practical tools for health programme managers and others to address gender and reproductive rights. Moreover it…

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      Tuberculosis Control in South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions

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      A Revised Framework to Address TB-HIV Co-infection in the Western Pacific Region

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      This revised framework provides guidance to countries in the Western Pacific Region to step up implementation of TB-HIV collaborative activities. It recommends that all people living with HIV-AIDS should be…

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      Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Assessments: A Guide for Country-Level Action

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      This document is intended to serve as an instrument for governments to establish a sector assessment process in their respective countries, and to generate national performance assessments of the water…

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      Malaria Microscopy Quality Assurance Manual: Version 1

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      Early diagnosis and prompt, effective treatment is the basis for the management of malaria and key to reducing malaria mortality and morbidity. An acceptable microscopy service is one that is…

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      HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific Region

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      The HIV/AIDS epidemic poses a very serious health and developmental problem in many countries of the Asia Pacific region. Given the presence of risk behaviours and a population size representing…

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      Guidance on Testing and Counselling for HIV in Settings Attended by People Who Inject Drugs: Improving Access to Treatment Care and Prevention

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      This publication offers basic operational guidance on HIV testing and counseling in settings attended by people who inject drugs (PWID). It is intended for a wide audience, including policy-makers, HIV/AIDS…

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      Guidelines for the Development of Health Management Information Systems

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      Provides guidelines based on practical experience in Western Pacific countries for the development of information systems as an aid to the more effective management of health services. Emphasizing the complexities…

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      Quality Assurance of Sputum Microscopy in Dots Programmes: Regional Guidelines for Countries in the Western Pacific

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      These Regional Guidelines have been prepared to guide both laboratory and national TB programme staff in strengthening quality assurance of sputum smear microscopy. The aim is to improve the quality…

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