In order to strengthen the capacity of National TB Control Program (NTP) staff in the area of electronic surveillance at BMU/district level, the program has embarked on an initiative to launch web-based TB surveillance system (WEB TBS) in collaboration with WHO. The framework would cover all the components of the stop TB strategy including drug [...]
Dr. Ala Alwan will, on February 1, 2012, take up his appointment as the new regional director for the World Health Organisation’s Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO-EMRO) headquartered in Cairo. He will take over from Dr. Hussein Abdel-Razzak Al Gezairy for a five-year term. In a related development, Dr. Margaret Chan has been nominated for a [...]
Since most people living with HIV in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organisation (WHO), of which Pakistan is also a part, do not know that they are infected with the virus, or are not known to the health system, regional treatment coverage is still the lowest globally. This fact has come to [...]
