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HDDFLASH ISSUE no. 9, October 1, 1996
Electronic newsletter and archiving service on human development issues
World Bank
Human Development Department (HDD)
e-mail: hddlink@worldbank.org
http://www.worldbank.org/html/hcovp/hdd/contents.html
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* Secretary Shalala on International Health
* What's New in the HDDFLASH Archive?
* World AIDS Day, December 1, 1996
* Publications from OMNI (Opportunities for Micronutrient Interventions)
* Training course: Quantitative Methods for the Evaluation of Tropical
Disease Control
* 16th International Congress of Nutrition
* Book Project - Visions of the Future of Africa
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Secretary Shalala on International Health
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"Now more than ever, the organizations involved in international health and
health related areas have to work more closely together. The problems are more
complex. The resources are thinner...," noted U.S. Secretary of Health and
Human Services, Donna Shalala in her opening remarks to Bank staff. Secretary
Shalala addressed Bank staff on the priorities in international health and the
role of U.S. and the Bank in addressing these challenges at the launch of the
Human Development Network on September 16, 1996.
She stressed the importance of international collaboration on major health
issues, "...that it can never be done by one institution alone or by one
nation alone but requires a kind of cross cutting within organizations, as you
are embarked on now in the World Bank, as well as across organizations."
There were only two occasions -- small pox eradication and the child survival
-- where the Bank and the major economic powers have successfully organized
themselves. As a result of available technology being used in concert-- oral
rehydration therapy, growth monitoring, immunizations -- five million
children's lives are saved each year. Polio has been eliminated from this
hemisphere, with substantial progress from other regions of the world.
"The Bretton-Woods institutions, the multilateral health and related
organizations, such as WHO, UNICEF, UNHCR, the private and volunteer
organizations, have to achieve greater coordination to focus their efforts."
She credits the Bank on its contributions to health, which includes the 1993
World Development Report: Investing in Health as " a very important blueprint,
and countries like the U.S. take that report seriously as we lay out our
initiatives," and the policy report on women's health initiatives.
She emphasized the role the Bank can play in health investments, that is
"... to use [Bank] resources as an economic incentive. in addition to
loans which are already being provided to get some nations of the world to
invest in the high priority cost-effective interventions that were described
in Investing in Health." She added that countries often overlook investments
in preventive care and health infrastructure, "... they're caught up in their
own bureaucracies, and, in part, because their focus is on acute care and on
dealing with diseases as opposed to the investments in fundamental
prevention. We must do whatever we can to stimulate them, either with
matching funds or with other economic stimuli, to help them understand that
the prevention infrastructure: clean water, clean air, and investments in
anti-smoking campaigns, have more to do with long-term health costs, and is
needed." She cited the U.S. experience which has focused most of its health
dollars on chronic care and curative care and very little on prevention.
On global surveillance of emerging and re-emerging infectious disease, she
cites the work of Center for Disease Control (CDC), the World Health
Organization (WHO) and The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
(UNAIDS). AIDS should be seen within the context of sexually-transmitted
diseases and the broader health issues worldwide if it is to get the focus or
the kind of energy we had on international vaccination campaigns, or the child
survival campaigns."
Secretary Shalala concluded with an assurance that the U.S. is committed to
working alongside these efforts. "We must mainstream the health issues with
the other kinds of economic development investments ... the best way to do
that is with actual economic incentives, so that our overlying strategies to
make sure that every nation in the world has the kind of public health
infrastructure it needs is encouraged while the countries themselves make very
specific investments that are culturally-specific and leadership-specific.
All of us know that the diseases don't have a clue about country, gender,
religion or race. They are however a threat to all of us."
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WORLD AIDS DAY - DECEMBER 1, 1996
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The American Association for World Health (AAWH), the U.S. sponsor of
World AIDS Day is pleased to announce the 1996 theme, "One World, One Hope".
The theme was designated by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
(UNAIDS) to "emphasize the need for people everywhere to put aside their
differences and to work together to face the challenge of slowing down the
epidemic and alleviating its impact. At the same time it reflects a
universal aspiration to find the means to prevent and cure HIV/AIDS".
World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1, is the launching of
HIV/AIDS awareness activities and programs planned throughout the year.
World AIDS Day activities range in diversity from action days in schools,
distribution of condoms and prevention literature, testimonies by people
living with HIV/AIDS, candlelight memorial vigils, to the release of songs
of inspiration and works of art by various artists.
As in years past, the American Association for World Health will produce an
action kit to help groups and communities coordinate efforts in observance
of World AIDS Day. To get on the mailing list to receive a kit, please
contact: AAWH, (202)466-5883; fax (202)466-5896, E-mail: AAWHstaff@aol.com
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OMNI MICRONUTRIENT PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE
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OMNI has a limited number of older publications on global micronutrient
activities available on a first come first serve basis. Many of these
documents were developed through the VITAL project. Although some are several
years old, we feel that they still can provide important information to
organizations, governments, projects and individuals involved in the
elimination of micronutrient malnutrition globally. Every week we will make
different documents available.
1. MICRONUTRIENTS: INCREASING SURVIVAL, LEARNING, AND ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY
This is a brief report on the USAID micronutrient program, published in
1993 and available only in English.
2. WORLD DECLARATION AND PLAN OF ACTION FOR NUTRITION
This document represents the culmination of the 1992 International Conference
on Nutrition (ICN). The World Declaration reflects the pledge of member
countries, non-governmental organizations, and the international community to
eliminate or reduce substantially -- within this decade -- starvation,
widespread undernutrition, and micronutrient malnutrition which
constrain progress in human and societal development around the world.
The Plan of Action for Nutrition provides a framework to go about
achieving these objectives, drawing on the recommendations for
policies, programs, and activities which emerged from an intensive
pre-conference consultative process.
The source of this document was the ICN, Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations/World Health Organization Joint Secretariat for the
Conference, 1992.
3. THE CAROTENOID CONTENT OF FOODS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES
This publication brings together data on many different foods, excluding
data compiled by the Nutrient Composition Laboratory of the United
States Department of Agriculture on foods consumed in the United
States. It was reviewed at both the XV International Congress of
Nutrition in Australia (1993) and the Food-Linked Agro-Industrial
Research (FLAIR) Programme of the Commission of the European
Communities held in Portugal (1993).
The report is produced by VITAL and available only in English.
4. WEST AFRICAN CONFERENCE ON VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY
This report is a summary of a conference held in Accra, Ghana, in 1993
and jointly funded by USAID, Micronutrient Initiative, IRDC, UNICEF, and
ODA. The main objectives of the conference were (1) to identify feasible
program options for the prevention and control of vitamin A deficiency
in the West African subregion and (2) to discuss the key policy issues
for catalyzing the implementation of country plans of action for
micronutrient deficiency control. The conference also identified the
research, training, and institutional requirements for achieving vitamin A
deficiency control policies and programs, and provided a forum for
promoting intergovernmental, program, and institutional linkages for
micronutrient deficiency control in the subregion.
The document is available in both French and English.
5. OMNI BRIEF: BIOAVAILABILITY & BIOCONVERSION OF CAROTENOIDS
This is a summary of a 1995 workshop on Bioavailablity and Bioconversion of
Carotenoids organized jointly by the Micronutrient Initiative and USAID/OMNI
project to address the question: Can foods rich in provitamin A carotenoids
provide adequate vitamin A for human needs?
In addition, the participants: 1. Identified key research questions that must
be addressed for food-based vitamin A strategies to be more effective:
2. Established their priority, 3. Suggested experimental approaches; and
4. Provided program guidance that could have the greatest relevance to
populations most at-risk of clinical and subclinical vitamin A
deficiency--women, infants and children in developing.
Available only in English
6. VITAL NUTRIENTS
This document provides a brief overview of recent studies on the effects of
micronutrients, current knowledge on how and why micronutrient deficiencies
occur, who is particularly at risk, interventions that work, and how
professionals engaged in a broad range of programs can play a key role in
preventing and controlling micronutrient deficiencies.
Published in English, French and Spanish
7. UNITED NATIONS SCN NEWS: FOCUS ON MICRONUTRIENTS
This 65-page publication, published by the Administrative Committee on
Coordination (ACC) - Subcommittee on Nutrition (SCN) of the United
Nations, is a periodic review of developments in international nutrition
which is normally published twice a year. This particular issue (number
9), produced in 1993, focuses on micronutrient deficiencies and
programs and is available only in English.
8. FRONTIERS OF NUTRITION AND FOOD SECURITY IN ASIA, AFRICA, AND LATIN AMERICA
This publication explores innovative programs in Asia, Africa, and Latin
American on demonstrates how healthful behaviors such as immunization,
prenatal care, and wholesome diets can significantly raise levels of nutrition
and health.
Drawn from a colloquium sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution in
association with the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) North
America and the World Food Prize, this volume was published in 1992
and is available only in English.
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OMNI is located at 1616 North Fort Myer Dr, Suite 1100, Arlington, Virginia
22209 USA - Tel: 703 528-7474 - Fax: 703 528-7480
E-mail: omni_project@jsi.com
WWW: http://www.jsi.com/intl/omni/home
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QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR THE EVALUATION OF TROPICAL DISEASE CONTROL
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(March 17-27, 1997)
This training course is organized by the Netherlands Institute for Health
Sciences (NIHES) and the Department of Public Health, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
BACKGROUND
Decision making on how money can be spent most effectively for the
control of tropical diseases should be supported by a systematic
comparison of the available control options. Mathematical,
quantitative models are developed to organize the available evidence
in a coherent framework and permit estimation of short and long term
effects.
PROGRAM
* The public health burden of disease in different parts of the world
and ways to reduce it
* Different types of quantitative models for the evaluation of
tropical disease control and their application
* Different measures of duration and quality of life and how to use
each one appropriately
* Interpretation of the information generated by mathematical models,
including an understanding of their limitations
* Ways in which interventions can affect disease transmission and
disease occurrence both on the short term and on the long term
* Measuring the costs incurred by the individual and the community
as a consequence of disease
* Modeling approaches for specific diseases such as Leprosy,
Schistosomiasis and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
* Students will learn to work with the user-friendly software
ONCHOSIM, a computer simulation program for the transmission
and control of onchocerciasis (river-blindness).
FACULTY
Prof. Dik Habbema, Drs. Willem-Jan Meerding, Drs. Bram Meima,
Dr. Gerrit van Oortmarssen, Dr. Anton Plaisier, Dr. Kitty van der
Ploeg, Dr. Johan Velema (course co-ordinator), Drs. Carina van Vliet
and Dr. Sake de Vlas, who are all staff members of the Center for
Decision Sciences in Tropical Disease Control, Dept. of Public
Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam. In addition, guest lecturers
from other institutions will contribute to the course.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Contact: Ms. Gerda Bathoorn, Admissions Co-ordinator, the Netherlands
Institute for Health Sciences, Room Ee 2185, Erasmus University
Medical School, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Phone: + 31 10 408 82 88, Fax: + 31 10 436 59 33
e-mail: NIHES@nihes.fgg.eur.nl
Dr. Johan P. Velema
dept. Public Health
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tel: +31-10-4087714
Fax: +31-10-4366831
E-mail: velema@mgz.fgg.eur.nl
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16th International Congress of Nutrition
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The 16th International Congress of Nutrition will be held in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, July 27 to August 1, 1997.
"From Nutrition Science to nutrition practice for better global health"
The program will cover the major areas of nutrition: nutritional epidemiology,
food security; micronutrient malnutrition; nutrition issues important to
women's and children's health; models and state-of-the-art methods for
nutrition research; foods for health: bioactive factors, genetically modified
and functional foods; nutrition in treatment of diabetes, AIDS,
obesity,osteoporosis, cancer, hypersensitivity, and mental disorders; and
nutrition education.
In addition to plenary lectures and traditional there-specific symposia,
the program will feature debate sessions on controversies in nutrition.
Workshops will be organized in one of four formats: Poster Workshops,
Media Demonstrations, Reports of Nutrition Program and Working Group
Sessions.
The Registration Bulletin and Call for Abstracts of the 16th
International Congress of Nutrition will be available in October 1996 by:
1. direct request sent to the Congress Organization
Congress Secretariat
16th International Congress of Nutrition
National Research Council Canada
Montreal Road, Building M-19
Ottawa, Ontario
CANADA K1A OR6
E-Mail: CONFMAIL@ aspm.lan.nrc.ca
Telephone: (1 613) 993-7271
Fax: (1 613) 993-7250
2. by accessing INTERNET (information is thus readily available and by
completing the Reply Form you are ensured of receiving a copy of the
Registration Bulletin and Call for Abstracts by mail).
http://www.nrc.ca/confserv/iuns97/welcome.html
IMPORTANT DATES:
Receipt of abstracts January 15, 1997
Advance Registration April 15, 1997
Hotel Accommodation June 6, 1997
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Visions of the Future of Africa - Book Project
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Young, dynamic, and talented Africans who are 40 years of age or under are
invited to contribute papers to a proposed book tentatively entitled
"Visions of the Future of Africa". Each contribution should be from the
personal perspective of the author. Although contributing authors can
examine additional issues which they deem to be important for the future of
Africa, each author should at the least explore the following questions in
their essay:
What do you think about the future? What are your visions, hopes, fears,
ambitions, and goals for the future? What are your perceptions about the
trends that will shape the world, your region, nation, and societies?
Which of these trends would you like to encourage and which ones would you
like to discourage? How do you see the future of the world, the African
continent, your nation, and your community? What type of an Africa would
you like to live in? How can your vision of the future be attained? What
role do you see yourself playing not only in your country but in the world
of the future?
Authors should have in mind a time frame of about 30 years into the future.
That is, the year 2026 should be the focus. Authors should limit their
contributions to 4000 words. Although the deadline for submission of
manuscripts is 30 December 1996, sending a paper early will allow more time
for its consideration. Authors whose articles are selected for inclusion
in the book will be paid an honorarium of US$500.
Please distribute this information to anyone you feel might be interested
or should participate in this book project. If you would like to nominate
someone or yourself to contribute an article to be considered for inclusion
in the book, please provide the following information (Name, Profession &
Job Title, Nationality, Sex, Address, Telephone #, Fax #, and Email) on
each of your nominees. We will need this information as soon as possible
so that we can send you and other nominees the book proposal and
guidelines for contribution.
Direct inquiries to Olugbenga Adesida and Arunma Oteh.
Contact address: B.P. 46 Guichet, Annexe BAD,
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Tel: (+225) 44 80 81 / 44 70 02;
Fax: (+225) 22 26 64 / 44 70 02; Email: jadesida@worldbank.org