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[Title] => Public threatened by weak health system, climate change - WHO
[Summary] => The healthcare landscape has changed, and there is now a twin threat to public health – a weak health system and ...
[DatePublished] => 2008-09-24 00:00:00
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[Title] => Lack of awareness of HIV infections makes controlling AIDS difficult: UN
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[DatePublished] => 2007-06-05 14:34:00
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[Title] => SARS fight could help anti-TB drive
[Summary] => Money and public attention spent on eradicating SARS also might yield benefits in the fight against a more lethal enemy, tuberculosis, which remains one of Asia’s top killers with 1,000 deaths every day, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
"SARS could indirectly help us fight TB, since greater resources for the surveillance and control of infectious diseases mean we can find and cure more of the two million TB sufferers in our region," WHO Western Pacific director Shigeru Omi said in a statement ahead of World TB Day tomorrow.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-23 00:00:00
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[Title] => Promote sexual health, Asian gov’ts urged
[Summary] => Asia’s adolescents are turning increasingly to risky sexual behavior, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday, urging governments to do more to promote the sexual health of younger people.
WHO regional chief Shigeru Omi said that while "social norms regarding sexual activity and sexual behaviour have changed... (the) environment to support the adolescents to face these changes has not."
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-24 00:00:00
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[Title] => WHO: Asian conditions allow AIDS to spread faster
[Summary] => Ignorance, fear, denial and intolerance of HIV/AIDS are creating an environment that could allow the disease to spread faster in Asia, the World Health Organization warned yesterday.
Shigeru Omi, WHO’s regional director for the Western Pacific, said the stigma attached to HIV/AIDS — often linked to cultural or religious beliefs or lack of education — sometimes leads to denial of the problem, heightening the risk of the disease spreading further.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-28 00:00:00
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[Title] => WHO warns vs return of killer pneumonia virus
[Summary] => World Health Organization (WHO) director general Lee Jong-Wook warned yesterday that the SARS virus could return and called for strengthened surveillance to contain the global threat.
"Will SARS come back or not? We have to prepare on the assumption that it will come back," Lee told the 54th session of the WHO regional committee for the Western Pacific in Manila, referring to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome that ravaged the region this year.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-09 00:00:00
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[Title] => ‘SARS may return in next few months’
[Summary] => The World Health Organization (WHO) warned yesterday that the SARS epidemic can re-emerge in the next few months as doctors lacked an effective kit to diagnose the illness and with animals still harboring the deadly virus.
In issuing the warning, Shigeru Omi, director for WHO Western Pacific region where 95 percent of SARS cases were reported during the recent outbreak, said SARS-hit countries should maintain their surveillance systems for at least one more year.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-08 00:00:00
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[Title] => Rising health care costs alarm WHO
[Summary] => Health care costs in Asia are ballooning, with poor families in some countries spending up to 30 percent of their meager household incomes on this key necessity, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns.
The problem is compounded by the lack of financial protection schemes, such as health insurance, for low-income families.
"There is a general concern that health costs are increasing rapidly and resources are not being used efficiently and effectively," laments Shigeru Omi, regional director of the Manila-based WHO Western Pacific office.
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[Title] => Couch potato lifestyle killing millions yearly
[Summary] => Seven out of the 10 leading causes of death in the Philippines are non-communicable diseases linked to unhealthy behavior, including lack of physical activity, unhealthy diets and smoking, according to the Department of Health (DOH).
"This is because 50 percent of the population is sedentary," Manuel Dayrit said in a recent news conference organized to draw attention to the celebration of World Health Day today.
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