WHO - 54th Session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Med, Cairo, Oct 20-23

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Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean meeting being held in Cairo, Oct 20-23.

Google-translated from Arabic:

54 in the session of the World Health Organization
22 States examined the causes of disease evolution territory eastern Mediterranean
Oct 20, 2007

Al-Hashim Abdella:

WHO discussed at the fifty-fourth session of the Regional Committee today to discuss the new changes affecting the health conditions in different countries in the global environment is witnessing the emergence of a new disease each year resurgence of the disease or been eradicated and to identify ways in which modern destroys the potential for a global pandemic of human avian influenza disease.

He said. Ibrahim Alcardani Spokesperson and regional adviser for the Eastern Mediterranean for the World Health Organization that the session involving 22 countries attended Margaret Chan Director General of the World Health Organization.

In order to discuss the challenges of the old continue to worsen AIDS among sectors and broader categories, especially marginalized groups, drug addicts, as well as increase the actual use of tobacco products and cigarettes and other HUBBLE - BUBBLE addition to the health issues raised on the table in front of members of the Committee to include substance abuse and enhance the safety of patients in the territory east average.

He added that the meeting dealt with health conditions in Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories and the prevention of blindness and vision imbalance and update eradication of polio and the role of maternal and child health and how to improve the health of mothers and required countries to achieve in this area and explained the reasons that lead to the death of 53000 thousand and one million children under five age annually in the world.

أHe indicated that statistics affirm that States most affected by the burden of smoking and tobacco use in the eastern Mediterranean region are Egypt and Pakistan, will be laying the foundations for a new confrontation use bubble and remove misconceptions around saying that he will discuss the high prices of medicines and access to, and marketing of food to children and adolescents and its impact on health public.

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Re: WHO - 54th Session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Med, Cairo, Oct 20-2

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A report on what Margaret Chan had to say at the WHO meeting in Cairo....

Google-translated from Arabic:

WHO warns of the deadly disease hit the province medium and sinking Delta
Oct 21, 2007

CAIRO - The supreme governing body of the World Health Organization on Saturday, the annual meeting of its Regional Office in Cairo to discuss the most important issues and challenges of health and health risks faced by the States of the territory east of the Mediterranean.

It warned Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, the transmission of diseases between countries and across continents, the sources commented: every city has become the international airport at risk, countries have become more vulnerable to the dangers of the same joint, which no country can address alone

She said: I pull my attention to the repeated visits and discussions I have had with the Minister of Health that the health problems posed represents a common denominator among all countries and based on health matters in various parts of the Earth, but mainly engaged in the same battle on three fronts, we strive and fight the first world germs and microbes, which We continue to grow and secondly seek to change human behavior and thirdly we strive to attract attention and resources.

She added: We are aware of the nature of the problem, which is that globalization leads to the generation of wealth, and this is a good thing, but not in any globalization rules guaranteeing fairness in the distribution of wealth, but I do not think that the world has never witnessed imbalance balance with regard to matters as evidenced now, The difference in the average age hoped could be up to 40 years between the poorest and richest countries, and there are more than 10 million young children and pregnant women die due to preventable cases satisfactory to a great extent.

It continued: injustice in the field of health is truly a matter of life or death, and this is what makes me supportive of the initiative taken by the province to meet the basic needs of development, the initiative aimed at alleviating poverty and closely linked to primary health care values, principles and methods, according to the Egyptian newspaper today.

She drew Margaret study published recently in the British magazine says women are often the key to improving the health of the population and this is entirely on the territory of the East Mediterranean, so that the projects that would empower women and to meet the basic needs clearly make a difference in poor communities.

She emphasized that the changes in the way human colonization of the planet has violated balanced flour in the world of germs, and as a result appear on the scene of new diseases in a manner unprecedented history seen before, add to that old diseases emitted from bed or moving to new continents and happened to the Rift Valley disease or avian influenza in the province,

Said Margaret: We have lived throughout the world four years threatened avian influenza pandemic, the province witnessed outbreaks of avian influenza caused by h5n1 virus in poultry and injured people and despite the efforts we have not been able to get rid of the virus so far.

She added: There are several countries in the eastern Mediterranean region facing severe scarcity of fresh water and perhaps exacerbated those changes, which are expected to occur on rainfall patterns, scientists say that some regions including the Nile Delta and Gulf coasts vulnerable to flooding and inundation by rising sea levels

She added that climate change would affect all forms of harmful damage in some of the determinants of health, food, air, water and developing countries would be the first to be affected, but the most affected.

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