tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Responding to infectious diseases in Burma and her border regions"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Responding to infectious diseases in Burma and her border regions. | Conflict and Health BioMed Central Open Access Responding to infectious diseases in Burma and her border regions Chris Beyrer 1 and Thomas J Lee2 Address 1Center for Public Health and Human Rights Department of Epidemiology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 615 N. Wolfe St. E 7152 Baltimore MD 21205 USA and 2School of Medicine University of California at Los Angeles 924 Westwood Blvd Suite 300 Los Angeles CA 90024 USA Email Chris Beyrer - cbeyrer@ Thomas J Lee - tomlee@ Corresponding author Published 14 March 2008 Received 4 March 2008 Conflict and Health 2008 2 2 doi l752-l505-2-2 Accepted I4 March 2008 This article is available from http content 2 l 2 2008 Beyrer and Lee licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction In January of 2007 an international scientific conference Responding to Infectious Diseases in the Border Regions of South and Southeast Asia was conducted by our collaborative group and hosted by the Faculty of Tropical Medicine of Mahidol University in Bangkok Thailand. The conference was something of a landmark in that it attempted to bring together groups and individuals working on infectious diseases in Burma Myanmar proper those working on her border regions and concerned representatives and scientists from the Burma neighbor states of Thailand China India and Bangladesh. Some 190 representatives from 9 countries attended with representatives from Government Academia NGOs relief groups including MSF France and MSF Switzerland WHO SEARO Office and representative from WHO and UNAIDS in Burma Myanmar the . CDC and USAID and European donors including DFID. The diseases of concern included HIV AIDS TB malaria neglected tropical