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UNINA9911087500603321 |
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Investing in strategies to reverse the global incidence of TB / / Jaap Broekmans, Karen Caines, Joan E. Paluzzi |
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London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Earthscan, c2005 |
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1-136-55028-3 |
1-280-47539-0 |
9786610475391 |
1-84977-354-8 |
600-00-0097-9 |
1-4237-0874-1 |
9781849773546 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (169 p.) |
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BroekmansJaap |
CainesKaren |
PaluzziJoan E |
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Tuberculosis - Prevention - International cooperation |
Tuberculosis - Developing countries - Prevention |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme on behalf of the UN Development Group. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-151). |
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Investing in strategies to reverse the global incidence of TB; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; Task force members; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Millennium Development Goals; Executive summary; Chapter 1 The emergency of tuberculosis; The DOTS strategy to control tuberculosis; The need for modern tools: diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines; The Millennium Development Goals; The UN Millennium Project Working Group on TB and the Stop TB Partnership; Recommendations; Chapter 2 The global tuberculosis epidemic and tuberculosis control; Global achievements |
Overview of the tuberculosis epidemicOverview of global tuberculosis control; Tuberculosis and HIV; Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; Summary findings and conclusions; Chapter 3 Poverty, gender, children, and tuberculosis; Poverty fosters tuberculosis; Tuberculosis |
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fosters poverty; Tuberculosis and gender; Tuberculosis and children; Chapter 4 Moving forward to achieve the Millennium Development Goals target for tuberculosis; Key intersections with other UN Millennium Project task forces; Solutions to constraints to improved tuberculosis control |
Recommendation 1: ensure access for all to high-quality tuberculosis careRecommendation 2: address the TB/HIV emergency now; Recommendation 3: engage all primary care providers in high-quality TB care; Recommendation 4: parter with communities to stop tuberculosis; Recommendation 5: stop the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; Recommendation 6: accelerate the development of critically needed new tools; Recommendation 7: support the Global Plan to Stop TB; Chapter 5 Financing needs; Why more resources are needed; Estimate of general health system requirements; Recommendations |
Chapter 6 Meeting the target in UN Millennium Project pilot countriesUN Millennium Project pilot country case studies; Meeting the tuberculosis target in Kenya; Meeting the tuberculosis target in other UN Millennium Project pilot countries: Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, and Ethiopia; Conclusion; Appendix 1 World HEalth Organization recommendations for implementing the DOTS strategy and its adaptation; Appendix 2 Meeting the Millennium Development Goals target in Kenya; Appendix 3 Tuberculosis and poverty in Cambodia; Appendix 4 Tuberculosis and poverty in the Dominican Republic |
Appendix 5 Tuberculosis in EthiopiaAppendix 6 Private-public partnerships for new tuberculosis diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines: Aeras, FIND, and the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development; Appendix 7 Summary of background paper on a two-month drug regimen; Appendix 8 Full list of recommendations from the UN Millennium Project Working Group on TB; Notes; References |
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The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015?income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter?while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Mi |
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UNINA9911093343603321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919-> |
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Evolution as a religion : strange hopes and stranger fears / / Mary Midgley |
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London, : Routledge, 2002 |
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0-203-36168-7 |
1-280-21738-3 |
9780203361689 |
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[Revised ed. /] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Evolution - Religious aspects |
Religion and science |
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Previous ed.: London: Methuen, 1985. |
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Front Cover; Copyright Page; Evolution as aReligion; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition; 1. Evolutionary Dramas; 2. Do Science and Religion Compete?; 3. Demarcation Disputes; 4. The Irresistible Escalator; 5. Choosing a World; 6. The Problem of Direction; 7. Scientist and Superscientist; 8. Dazzling Prospects; 9. Black Holes: Jacques Monod and the Isolation of 'Science'; 10. Freedom and the Monte Carlo Drama; 11. Scientific Education and Human Transience; 12. Mixed Antitheses; 13. Science, Scepticism and Awe |
14. The Service of Self and the Service of Kali15. Who or What is Selfish?; 16. Dreaming and Waking; 17. The Limits of Individualism; 18. The Vulnerable World and its Claims on Us; Notes; Index |
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According to a profile in The Guardian, Mary Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretensions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who feel she sometimes oversteps the mark'. Considered one of Britain's finest philosophers, Midgley exposes the illogical logic of poor doctrines that shelter themselves behind the prestige of science. Always at home when taking on the high priests of evolutionary theory - Dawkins, Wilson and their acolytes - she has |
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famously described evolution as 'the creation-myth of our age'. In Evolution as a Religion, she ex |
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