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- Contributes to the salary of a faculty palliative care professor in an university in a developing country.
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April 27
WHO Important News!
The new WHO HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care Protocols for the European Region are now available in Russian.
The protocols can be downloaded from
http://www.euro.who.int/eprise/main/WHO/Progs/SHA/treatment/20060801_1
WHO to launch first essential medicines list for children
A list of essential paediatric medicines is sorely needed. The World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicines list, first launched in 1977, is predominantly for adults. It includes some dosages for children, but in most cases formulations for children simply do not exist.
Children cannot be treated as “little adults” when it comes to medicines. “Children differ in the way they ingest, absorb, metabolize and excrete drugs, and behavioural and developmental issues complicate their treatment,” said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in a report last year.
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