In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

An effective system of prosthetics and orthotics provision would translate the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the 2005 World Health Assembly

The objective of this workshop was to initiate efforts to establish comprehensive national programmes for the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases in countries of

The areas covered in any mental health legislation should include among other things, the right to treatment, authority for determining treatment-setting, the right of society

Ten countries of the Region have eliminated malaria, including the United Arab Emirates, and a further three countries (Egypt, Morocco and the Syrian Arab Republic) have

In order to facilitate the activities in the countries, we have set a regional target: by the end of this year, all national tuberculosis control programmes are expected to

Realizing the urgency of introducing environmental health impact assessment as a planning tool for promoting health friendly and integrated development in the GCC countries, the

Since the introduction of IMCI into the Region, countries which first began implementing the strategy have successfully completed the early implementation phase3. The challenge now

Large parts of the Region have now become poliomyelitis-free and 14 countries have not reported a case of poliomyelitis for 3 or more years under conditions of improved