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| | MAINSTREAMING THE POLICY AND PROGRAMMING RESPONSE TO THE HIV EPIDEMIC |
 | | There continues to be a narrow understanding of the epidemic, both its causes and its consequences, and policies and programming responses have in most countries continued to be focused on a narrow set of conditions and issues. | | | An intermediate objective, which is essential for achieving the objective of better programming for the epidemic, has to be to establish in development practitioners ways of reasoning and responding such that in their daily work they automatically understand the relevance of what they do for the HIV epidemic. | | | All of these conditions need to be present for an effective worldwide response to the epidemic, of which UNAIDS is an important component. |
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| | Genus Epidemicus and Prophylaxis in Homeopathy |
| | Here again the individual nature of the particular epidemic is not taken into account, and this approach works best with those epidemic illnesses that can be termed acute miasms - ones in which there is less variability in individual expression. | | | Yet a review of homoeopathy's 200-year history reveals that this is an arena in which we have seen some of the greatest examples of the effectiveness of our art and science. | | | All have their roots in classical practice, but it is the selection of a genus epidemicus - an individually selected remedy for this particular outbreak of an epidemic - which is to be sought as the surest and most closely aligned with our guiding principles. |
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| | neurodiversity.com the "autism epidemic" & real epidemics |
| | I was not surprised to learn this, though; it has been my experience that responsible professionals tend to avoid the use of shocking verbiage to describe their work or their theories. | | | It is a crusade that draws considerable fuel from those who are categorically opposed to vaccination, as well as by those who are politically opposed to governmental involvement in public health initiatives or quality control in the provision of health care. | | | I am writing to express my concern about the use of the phrase "Autism epidemic" in a recent UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute press release announcing the CHARGE (Childhood Autism Risk from Genetics and the Environment) study conducted by Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto. |
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| | Epidemic |
| | Also the feedback we get from our nights is very exciting. | | | After you read this please explore our site and see for yourselves before we see you. | | | After many years of clubbing my friends and I decided to put together what we have always dreamed about being a perfect night, and make everything we do and enjoy on our weekends worth it! |
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| | Our overall goal was to answer the question if we are able to control Mother Nature or will she just have her way? | | | Marine Mammal Epidemics and Morbillivirus - Can we help or will Mother Nature have her way? | | | There is nothing we can do to stop the effects of El Nino weakening animals immune systems. |
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| | WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) |
| | WHO co-ordinated the international investigation with the assistance of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network and worked closely with health authorities in the affected countries to provide epidemiological, clinical and logistical support as required. | | | WHO > WHO sites > Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR) |
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| | village voice > film > Epidemic by J. Hoberman |
| | Uneven as von Trier can be, Epidemic is among his better and most revealing movies—giving full vent to his obsessions with cinematic purity, behavioral acting, Udo Kier, hospitals, and, most spectacularly, the notion of cinema as hypnosis. | | | With only days before their Danish Film Institute producer needs to vet their project and having forgotten most of the plot, the partners conceive another film, the medical horror movie Epidemic. | | | While the framing film is scruffy 16mm, the scenes from this imagined Epidemic are shot in glossy 35mm and filled with make-believe—an artificial island, a fake priest, and an idealistic epidemiologist (Lars again) who goes by the name of Dr. Mesmer and is inadvertently spreading the very disease against which he's fighting. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Epidemic: Books |
| | In The Epidemic, child and family psychiatrist Robert Shaw brings to bear a lifetime of first-hand experience with and knowledge of this plague, which has become so much the norm that we often don't even recognize its warning signs. | | | We have lost touch with what they need from us to grow and thrive, and in the process we've created enormous numbers of children who are disaffected, alienated, amoral, emotionally stunted, and even violent. | | | This book advises you how to save your child and yourself from this epidemic, but its suggestions will not be the ones that today's parents are used to hearing. |
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| | The 1918 Influenza Pandemic |
| | One article noted that "depletion has been carried to such an extent that the practitioners are brought very near the breaking point," (BMJ, 11/2/1918). | | | new sciences of the infectious agents and immunology were racing to come up with a vaccine or therapy to stop the epidemics. | | | Besides the lack of health care workers and medical supplies, there was a shortage of coffins, morticians and gravediggers (Knox). |
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| | Hawaii Meth Mania: Drug Summit, Media Push Target "Ice" |
| | But while the coverage was shrill, the problem is real, according not only to law enforcement and treatment professionals, but drug reformers and academic researchers as well. | | | And the summit in turn was preceded by months of increasingly shrill and ubiquitous mass media coverage of what it almost always referred to as the ice "epidemic." |
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| | The Oakland Press: Local News: Experts say childhood obesity not a disease - it's an epidemic |
| | It's an epidemic, and the only cure is being practical and taking care of yourself." | | | Patterson said he initiated the program after hearing a lecturer say this could be the first generation of children that might not outlive their parents. | | | State officials, doctors, parents and children are all searching for the answer to childhood obesity. |
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| | Epidemic |
| | The question rather seemed to be did he care anything at all about his audience? | | | Still, such is von Trier's cinematic wizardry that his once-acknowledged mastery of technique and dramatics should have at least the international fest circuit clamoring to see what he has been doing as an encore after his previous opus, which was an English-language futuristic shocker. | | | However, just as the mood and immediacy of the toils, troubles and fun of the two auteurs tend to flag, von Trier comes up with a surprise ending that is, in any sense of the word, a true scream. |
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| | Definition of epidemic - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |
| | 1 : affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time epidemic> | | | Etymology: French épidémique, from Middle French, from epidemie, n., epidemic, from Late Latin epidemia, from Greek epidEmia visit, epidemic, from epidEmos visiting, epidemic, from epi- + dEmos people -- more at | | | For More Information on "epidemic" go to Britannica.com |
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| | Epidemic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term is often used in a non-biological sense to refer to widespread and growing societal problems, for example, in discussions of mental illness or drug addiction. | | | The disease involved in an epidemic can be transmitted by a vector, from person to person, or from a common source such as contaminated water. | | | Because it is based on what is "expected" or thought normal, a few cases of a very rare disease like rabies may be classified as an "epidemic", while many cases of a common disease (like the common cold) would not. |
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| | epidemic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Epidemics may also be caused by new disease agents in the human population, such as the Ebola virus. | | | Epidemic disease is controlled by various measures, depending on whether transmission is through respiratory droplets, food and water contaminated with intestinal wastes, insect vectors, or other means. | | | Cholera and plague, endemic in parts of Asia, can become epidemic under the above conditions, as can dysentery and many other infections. |
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| | epidemic - definition of epidemic in Encyclopedia |
| | An epidemic is generally a widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population. | | | When each infected individual is infecting more than one other individual, so that the number of infected individuals is growing exponentially, the disease is in an epidemic state. | | | An epidemic may be restricted to one locale or may even be global (pandemic). |
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| | WHO Obesity and overweight |
| | Often coexisting in developing countries with under-nutrition, obesity is a complex condition, with serious social and psychological dimensions, affecting virtually all ages and socioeconomic groups. | | | The rising epidemic reflects the profound changes in society and in behavioural patterns of communities over recent decades. | | | While genes are important in determining a person's susceptibility to weight gain, energy balance is determined by calorie intake and physical activity. |
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| | UK Resilience - Emergencies - Human Health |
| | Though the risk of a serious epidemic or outbreak of disease has reduced with the widespread availability of modern drugs and medicines, the risk clearly remains. | | | Details of the framework and risk assessment methodology can be found in the risk section of this site. | | | Human health hazards that are of particular concern and which drive the UK Government's contingency planning assumptions are an influenza type disease (both at epidemic and pandemic scales), an outbreak of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) type disease and a localised outbreak of legionella or meningitis. |
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| | Epidemic (film) - encyclopedia article about Epidemic (film). |
| | This story is intercut with scenes from the film they write, where Lars plays a renegade doctor out to cure a modern day epidemic. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | In an ironic twist of fate, the doctor discovers that he has been spreading the virus himself. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Epidemic+(film)
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| | Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News |
| | Wood is also a member of the drug epidemiology work group for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which forecasts drug trends regionally and nationally. | | | This summer, the Legislature formed a joint House-Senate Task Force on Ice and Drug Abatement to study the problem and develop legislative answers. | | | Modafferi's fall shows how ice or "batu," a wickedly addictive and widely available drug, steals control of people's minds and lives regardless of socioeconomic status. |
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| | Epidemics |
| | Health > Diseases, Conditions, and Health Topics > Epidemics | | | Whether to establish quarantines or close schools and businesses would be the choice of each county' s health officials. | | | One, called Acomplia, would be a prescription pill to control appetite by blocking the same brain receptors that stimulate the ''munchies'' in marijuana smokers. |
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| | The Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918 |
| | The two diseases inflamed and irritated the lungs until they filled with liquid, suffocating the patients and causing their bodies to turn a cyanotic blue-black. | | | Their concern increased when 75,000 cases were reported statewide. | | | First a few cases, and then the numbers began to rise rapidly. |
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| | Meningococcal Vaccine Strategy - About Meningococcal Disease |
| | The 2004 meningococcal disease annual report provides detailed information on the incidence and distribution of meningococcal disease, the basis for diagnosis, clinical features and outcome and analysis of the group B meningococcal disease epidemic strain. | | | As the MeNZB™ vaccine will not protect against other strains of meningococcal disease you will still need to watch out for signs and symptoms of meningococcal disease. | | | Meningococcal disease can easily be passed from one person to another. |
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| | Family Research Council: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 "IS99F1" |
| | Letter dated March 8, 1999, from Richard Tompkins, Ph.D., director of education and research, Medical Institute for Sexual Health, to Lisa Sanchez and Lakita Garth. | | | The United States is in the midst of a sexually transmitted disease (STD) epidemic. | | | The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Epidemic: Condoms Don't Work |
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| | epidemic student ministry |
| | be a part of the change, a part of the epidemic? | | | epidemic is about being real, about what you want, about getting to know you. | | | more: did I mention that epidemic is all about you. |
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| | New York State Writers Institute - Epidemic Film Notes |
| | EPIDEMIC is an example of the surprising variety von Trier’s minimalist approach can bring to the screen. | | | Suddenly, the director and the screenwriter appear to contract plague-like symptoms. | | | Reflecting on his film school experience in Denmark, von Trier later wrote, "I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology. |
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - North American flu epidemic spreading |
| | In the UK, vaccination is recommended for those above 65 and children in "at-risk" groups such as those with asthma, diabetes or heart conditions. | | | US health officials are particularly concerned as flu has arrived earlier than for many years, raising concern that there may be a more severe epidemic. | | | The main strain of flu virus seen has also only recently emerged and is not specifically covered in the make-up of the 2003 flu vaccine. |
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| | Researchers uncover mad cow epidemic - The Washington Times: World - July 04, 2004 |
| | More than 300,000 cows contracted bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the past 13 years, 300 times more than the number of officially recorded cases, researchers at the Institute of Health and Medical Research said. | | | The report came as Paris officials revealed the death of a 55-year-old Frenchman believed to have suffered from variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of BSE. | | | Since 2000, when controls were tightened, a further 820 cases have been confirmed, according to figures published last month, bringing the total to 923 over the past 13 years — a tiny fraction of the total estimated in the new report. |
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| | Epidemic definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | Epidemic definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms | | | Epidemic: The occurrence of more cases of a disease than would be expected in a community or region during a given time period. | | | Please consult your healthcare provider before beginning any course of supplementation or treatment. |
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| | 02-017t (Smallpox in New England) |
| | The epidemic was efficiently aborted at the cost of such fundamental civil liberties as the freedom to travel to work. | | | To curtail the movement of people, all forms of national transportation were halted, even those of a humanitarian nature, and the army vaccinated an estimated 18 million people in ten days. | | | While he rarely responded to the public condemnations of his interventions, he did maintain meticulous medical records. |
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| | Hepatitis C: An Epidemic for Anyone |
| | Hepatitis is a disease characterized by inflammation of the liver, usually producing swelling and, in many cases, permanent damage to liver tissues. | | | Hepatitis C is rapidly becoming a global epidemic, and this makes hepatitis C one of the greatest public health threats faced in this century, and perhaps one of the greatest threats to be faced in the next century. |
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| | We Are In the Midst of An Autism Epidemic | | | An epidemic which the health authorities are shamefully trying to cover up. | | | The USA statistics are incontrovertible proof of the autism epidemic which is sweeping the Western world. |
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| | Meth Madness at Newsweek - This is your magazine on drugs. By Jack Shafer |
| | Looking elsewhere in the drug database for evidence of a meth epidemic, we arrive at the number of seizures of the actual drug by the Drug Enforcement Administration, a number Newsweek doesn't bother to include, perhaps because it undermines the "crisis" thesis. | | | Newsweek's current scaremongering cover story, "The Meth Epidemic: Inside America's New Drug Crisis," is a textbook illustration of the phenomenon. | | | From its shrieking inside headline, "America's Most Dangerous Drug," to the gross-out photo gallery (a close-up of "meth-mouth," a prematurely aged meth casualty, and a burned survivor of a meth-lab explosion) the Newsweek package plays to readers' emotions. |
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| | Book Details - Epidemic: How Teen Sex is Killing Our Kids |
| | In Epidemic, Dr. Meeker explains the facts behind the epidemic, tracing the causes, from our overemphasis on birth control to the “false sexual world” created by television, the movies and the media. | | | If you’re a parent or guardian, teacher or relative, of a teen-ager, this book can help you understand the dynamics behind this frightening medical phenomenon, and show you what you can do to keep your child from becoming another statistic. | | | In this groundbreaking expose, Dr. Meg Meeker uncovers the story of this serious epidemic and the pattern of political correctness and marketing hype that has caused this tidal wave of disease. |
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| | AskOxford: epidemic |
| | • adjective relating to or of the nature of an epidemic. |
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| | Game Revolution Review Page - Game Revolution |
| | The 'jist of the story in Epidemic is that a lethal virus has sentenced the human race to death, so all the humans now live underground. | | | You must fight for your freedom and for a cure to the virus. | | | The 1st person genre really needs a makeover, the shoot and run formula just isn't cutting it any more. |
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| | Hugh's ramblings: Epidemic |
| | The epidemic was so severe that it required the closing of schools. | | | What began as an isolated fit of laughter (and sometimes crying) in a group of 12- to 18-year-old schoolgirls rapidly rose to epidemic proportions. |
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| | Random House Books The Secret Epidemic by Jacob Levenson |
| | Interweaving personal stories and national policy, the legacy of discrimination and the battle for civil rights, sexuality and the role of the black church, this is a significant book for our time——a portrait of a devastating epidemic and an examination of our changing understanding of race in America. | | | “To say that Jacob Levenson’s The Secret Epidemic is a must-read is to say that it is a compelling, impassioned, and deeply humane work of writing and that it is an urgent, necessary alarm for anyone who thinks the AIDS epidemic in America has been tamed. | | | Desiree Rushing must reconcile her crack addiction and HIV infection with the fate of her city, family, and the black church. |
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| | CNN.com - Flu outbreak expected to reach epidemic level - Dec. 13, 2003 |
| | A big uncertainty about this year's epidemic is whether the number of cases among children means they are at higher risk than in previous years. | | | This year's flu outbreak isn't an epidemic yet, but a health authority said Friday it soon will be. | | | The flu reached epidemic levels for nine weeks during the 2001-2002 season, for 10 weeks during the 2000-2001 season and for 15 weeks during the 1999-2000 season. |
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| | Amazon.com: Eyewitness: Epidemic: Books: Brian Ward |
| | I highly recommend "Epidemic" to anyone, young or old, who is interested in the symptoms and treatment of illness throughout history. | | | I love the mix of both recent photography and older woodcuts/drawings used to illustrate such topics as historical diseases (such as leprosy), and more modern ones (like AIDS). | | | Study for the Western Civ CLEP: A guide by Janice Campbell, College Grad with 45 CLEP Credits |
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| | World health officials consider stockpiling vaccines in Asia to combat potential world flu epidemic |
| | A New England Journal of Medicine article suggests that nations across the globe begin contributing all available vaccines to an Asian stockpile that can be used to at least contain the virus to that part of the world. | | | As a bird flu virus in Asia begins to show signs that it is now spreading among humans, the world's doctors are scrambling for a plan to keep the disease from becoming a world wide epidemic. | | | World health officials consider stockpiling vaccines in Asia to combat potential world flu epidemic |
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Basra police to battle cholera |
| | Iraqis speak to the BBC News website about how their lives have changed | | | The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it expected a cholera epidemic in southern Iraq because of problems with poor sanitation. | | | A newly recruited and trained armed police force is to begin guarding water installations in Basra, where there are fears of a cholera epidemic. |
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| | CDC scientist warns that bird flu outbreak could dwarf the 1918 flu outbreak |
| | She said that even with those numbers, the epidemic killed only 1 percent of those it infected, whereas the Asian flu is currently estimated at a mortality rate of 76%. | | | A Center for Disease Control officials warns that an Asian flu outbreak could surpass even the 1918 influenza epidemic which killed 20 to 40 million people. | | | The H5N1 influenza strain that has already killed 42 has a fatality rate of 76 per cent, cases so far suggest. |
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| | epidemic MetaFilter |
| | Missing persons cases involving juveniles might have reached 'epidemic' proportions ("The number of missing persons reported to law enforcement has increased from 154, 341 in 1982 to 876,213 in 2000. | | | If this is what she thinks shouldn't she be typing only about this topic and not the meta criticism of this topic? | | | Greta Van Susteren is blogging now, or at least posting articles on foxnews.com and using the word 'blog' in the process. |
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| | BW Online September 8, 2003 Epidemic |
| | Since early August, the world's computer systems have been blitzed by hundreds of viruses -- some of them real doozies. | | | Indeed, to those most affected, it seems as if this summer's onslaught of viruses has reached epidemic proportions. | | | A new focus on defense could even discourage corporations from making investments in the latest computers and software. |
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| | Russian Expert Says Flu Epidemic May Kill Over One Billion This Year - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM |
| | The expert did not give a timeframe for the epidemic, but said that it is highly probable that it will start this year. | | | The world is on the brink of a major flu epidemic — one that could claim more than a billion lives, the head of the Russian Virology Institute, Academician Dmitry Lvov said at a press conference organized by the RIA-Novosti news agency on Thursday. | | | The country will need a reserve of at least 300,000 hospital beds if an epidemic breaks out, he said. |
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