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The Prescriber
List of publications in portable document format (PDF)
files.
This issue tells you about:
- The new global Roll Back Malaria partnership
- The global malaria burden
- A new short-course drug treatment that can prevent
mother-to-child transmission
- Strategies to prevent and control malaria
- New risks and opportunities in the control of malaria
- What malaria mosquitoes look like and how they live
- How to diagnose malaria
- Malaria drug resistance patterns
- Treatment of mild and severe malaria
- Special concerns of for pregnant women and young children
- Chemoprophylaxis against malaria
- Personal protection and selective vector control measures
- How to treat mosquito nets with insecticide
This issue tells you about:
- How health workers can help to prevent the spread of
HIV
- Drugs for preventive care and treatment of HIV-related
infections
- A new short-course drug treatment that can prevent
mother-to-child transmission
- HIV and infant feeding
- Children and HIV
- What health workers can do to help children orphaned by
HIV
- Why voluntary and confidential counselling and testing
services for HIV are recommended
- Focusing prevention on young people
- Helping people with HIV/AIDS live better
- Special concerns of health workers
In this issue: Injection popularity · Overuse
of injections · Choice of syringes · Sterilization methods
· Preparing to give an injection · Towards safer injection
services · Safe injection accessories
Earlier issues- available in hard copy only
Number 14 Ear Infections In this issue: Recognizing ,
mapping the problem, underlying causes and factors, primary ear care, managing
an ear problem, training - WHO Guidelines, Ototoxicity - deafness and drugs,
Otoscopy, the role of the health worker, towards primary ear care, drugs used
for treatment
Number 13 Eye Infections In this issue: Recognizing ,
training, case management, ocular problems related to HIV/AIDS, correct
management of drug and supplies, manpower development, community involvement,
Opthalmological preparations for eye infections
Number 12 Skin Diseases In this issue: General
considerations on management of skin diseases, common skin infection treatment,
comments on use of antibiotics and corticosteroids, major causes of rash in
children, main features in selection of vehicle for topical treatment
Number 11 Anaemia In this issue: Causes of anaemia,
prevention and treatment, dietary improvement, anaemia in pregnancy and
childhood, food fortification.
Number 10 Diabetes In this issue: Management and therapy of
diabetes, diabetes in pregnancy, proper health care for diabetic children,
diabetes and elderly peoples, how to detect and manage diabetes complications
Note: Issues 1 through 9 are only available in French, Spanish
and Portuguese
Number 9 Tuberculosis In this issue: Tuberculosis treatment
in pregnancy, breast-feeding and children - TB meningitis, BCG vaccination and
preventive chemotherapy in children, TB and HIV infection - drug-resistant
tuberculosis.
Number 8 Micronutrients In this issue: Vitamin A - serious
infections and thousands of cases of blindness, Iron and folic acid - anaemia,
Iodine -millions of mentally handicapped persons, Vitamin D - rickets and
osteomalacia
Number 7 Hypertension In this issue: Hypertension - Blood
pressure measurement, Hypertension in pregnant women - non-drug approaches,
Diuretic or beta-blocker, Other drugs
Number 6 Schistosomiasis and Helminthiasis In this
issue: Asymptomatic infections and infectious - disease, Three useful drugs,
Treatment of Schistomiasis, Parasite count and Helminthiasis, Treatment of
Helminthiasis, Antihelminthics, Helminthiasis and Schistomiasis- similarities
and differences.
Number 5 Malaria In this issue: Immunity against the
parasite, Treatment of malaria attacks, Complications of malaria in children
Number 4 Management of Acute Diarrhoea In this issue:
Management of Acute Diarrhoea - The appropriate way - Drugs with no role,
Antidiarrhoeals - A Costa Rican Perspective.
Number 3 Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) In this issue:
Cough and Cold remedies for young children, Treatment of Tuberculosis, The
favourable Cost/Benefit ratio of Amoxicillin.
Number 2 HIV and Hbv transmission in the Health Care
Setting In this issue: The problem of AIDS/STDs - Prevention and
Treatment.
Number 1 Drug use in pregnancy In this Inaugural
Issue: Need and patient compliance during pregnancy, featuring WHO's Model List
of Essential Drugs.
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