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  Basic principles for effective prevention of HIV infection among injecting drug users as a public health priority in countries of central and eastern Europe and central Asia 

  World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‎1998)‎

  In WHO's European Region, injecting drug users constitute the largest group of AIDS and HIV cases. Unsafe drug-injecting behaviour is the main route of transmission of HIV. In several countries of central and eastern Europe and central Asia the number of new HIV cases is increasing rapidly, particularly among injecting drug users. This makes prevention of HIV infection among injecting drug users a public health priority. National and local authorities are encountered with a problem of how to respond adequately to the emerging epidemic of HIV ...
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  Sub-regional meeting of national immunization programme managers (‎Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and NIS)‎ : report on a WHO meeting, Vienna, Austria 26-28 February 2002 

  World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‎EUR/02/5042756, 2002)‎

  The purpose of the meeting was to brief national immunization programme managers on immunization activities in the WHO European Region and to introduce the plan of action for 2002-2003. Participants received information on global, regional and selected national immunization programmes; measles surveillance and supplementary immunization activities; the introduction of new vaccines and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (‎GAVI)‎; and activities leading up to the declaration of the Region as poliomyelitis-free. The participants formulated ...
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  Epidemiological surveillance of malaria in countries of central and eastern Europe and selected newly independent states : report on a WHO intercountry meeting, Sofia, Bulgaria 24-26 June 2002 

  World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‎EUR/02/5037191, 2002)‎

  Many of the countries of central and eastern Europe (‎CCEE)‎ and newly independent states (‎NIS)‎ remain vulnerable to the resumption of the local transmission of malaria. In recent years, autochthonous cases have been reported in Belarus, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and the Republic of Moldova. The WHO Regional Office for Europe convened a meeting to review both imported malaria and local transmission in the CCEE and NIS, to analyse and exchange experience with malaria surveillance and prevention, and to outline a strategy to prevent the reintroduction ...