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Preventing HIV/AIDS in Young People
World Health Organization 2006; US$ 18.00Young people are particularly vulnerable to HIV: 15 24 year olds account for 50% of new cases. Five to six thousand youths become infected every day, most of them in developing countries. The UN General Assembly Special Session on AIDS in June 2001 set a number of goals to drive efforts to reduce prevalence in this age group. This report provides evidence-based... more...
Evaluation of Certain Food Additives
World Health Organization 2006; US$ 36.00The toxicological monograph's in this volume summarise the safety data on a number of food additives: Beeswax, Candelilla wax Quillaia extract Type 1 and 2, Phospholipase from fusarium venenatum expressed in Aspergillus oryzae, Calcium L- 5 methyltetrahydrofolate (L-5_MTHF), and Pulllulan (Pullulan P1-20). Monograph's on seven groups of related flavouring... more...
Evaluation of Certain Food Additives
World Health Organization 2004; US$ 36.00The toxicological monograph's in this volume summarise the safety data on a number of food additives: Beeswax, Candelilla wax Quillaia extract Type 1 and 2, Phospholipase from fusarium venenatum expressed in Aspergillus oryzae, Calcium L- 5 methyltetrahydrofolate (L-5_MTHF), and Pulllulan (Pullulan P1-20). Monograph's on seven groups of related flavouring... more...
Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
World Health Organization 2004; US$ 20.70Rheumatic heart disease poses a major challenge to public health and is the most prevalent heart disease in children. A WHO Study group reviewed the current scientific knowledge of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, as well as the medical and public health related practices, and revised the Jones diagnostic criteria for rheumatic fever and... more...
WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization
World Health Organization 2005; US$ 27.00This report presents the recommendations of a WHO Expert Committee commissioned to coordinate activities leading to the adoption of international recommendations for the production and control of vaccines and other biologicals and the establishment of international biological reference materials. The report starts with a discussion of general issues... more...
WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence
World Health Organization 2003; US$ 12.60This report presents the recommendations of a WHO Expert Committee responsible for reviewing information on dependence-producing drugs to assess the need for their international control. The first part of the report contains a summary of the Committee's evaluations of seven substances (dronabinol, oripavine, buprenorphine, butorphanol, ketamine, khat... more...
WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations, Thirty-ninth Report
World Health Organization 2005; US$ 31.50This report presents the recommendations of an international group of experts convened by the World Health Organization to consider matters concerning the quality assurance of pharmaceuticals and specifications for drug substances and dosage forms. The report is complemented by a number of annexes. These include: a list of available international chemical... more...
WHO Expert Consultation on Rabies
World Health Organization 2005; US$ 36.00More than 99% of all human rabies deaths occur in the developing world, and although effective and economical control measures are available, the disease has not been brought under control throughout most of the affected countries. Given that a major factor in the low level of commitment to rabies control is a lack of accurate data on the true public... more...
World Health Report 2000
World Health Organization 2000; US$ 13.50The World Health Report 2000 is an expert analysis of the increasingly important influence of health systems in the daily lives of people worldwide. To an unprecedented degree it takes account of the role of people as providers and consumers of health services, as financial contributors to health systems, as workers within them, and as citizens engaged... more...
Evaluation of Certain Veterinary Drug Residues in Food, No 939
World Health Organization 2006; US$ 22.50This report represents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of residues of certain veterinary drugs in food and to recommend maximum levels for such residues in food. The first part of the report considers general principles regarding the evaluation of veterinary drugs within the terms of reference of... more...









