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World Health Day
2012 and Health Week in I. R. Iran, 6-12 April 2012
The Ministry of Health and Medical
Education celebrated the World Health Day 2012, during the
Health Week starting on 6th April and ending on 12 April, under
the theme of “good health adds life to years”, and with one
identical but relevant theme for each day.
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World No Tobacco Day was celebrated by the Ministry of Health
and Medical Education, 31 May 2011
This year the World No Tobacco Day, under the theme of “WHO Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)” was officially celebrated in Tehran on
31st May 2011 in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME).
WHO has selected FCTC as the theme to highlight the importance of the treaty, to
stress Parties' obligations under the treaty, and to promote the essential role
of the Conference of the Parties and WHO in supporting country efforts.
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16-19 May 2011,
The First International Congress on Health Education & Promotion
in Tabriz
Tabriz University of Medical
Sciences will be the venue of the above mentioned congress to be
held from 16th to 19th of May. This is the First International
and fourth National Congress on Health Education and Promotion
and also the First International Congress of Medical
Bacteriology. Click on the following link for more information:
http://congress.tbzmed.ac.ir/page_congress_en.aspx?tabid=1&id=3
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7 April 2011,
World Health Day and Health week in Iran
The Ministry of Health and Medical
Education hold the Health, Happiness and Development Fair, in
Tehran’s Mossala (prayer ground), from 7 to 13 April 2011, on
the occasion of the Health week and under the theme of the World
Health Day: Antimicrobial Resistance and its Spread Worldwide.
The aim was raising public
awareness and sharing health related information and
achievements as well as creating joyful environment for
different age group of audiences. Relevant partners and
departments of the MOHME as well as WHO country office were
participated in the Fair. The Fair started on 7th April, however
official inauguration by the Minister of Health and Medical
Education accompanied with senior officials, was took placed on
9 April 2011.
The WHO country office used this
opportunity for advocating about its activities in Iran and its
strategic objectives as well as sharing the WHD’s brochure,
displaying slideshow of selected drawings and presenting the 5
winners of Art Competition.
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Workshop of Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis
for ECO Member States
A three-day workshop on the
prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis for ECO
member states commenced at Tehran University of Medical Sciences
on October 17, 2010. The workshop has been organized by TUMS
Osteoporosis Research Center, TUMS Endocrinology and Metabolism
Research Institute and Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
The Iranian Ministry of Health, Economic Cooperation
Organization, TUMS Deputy for Research, the World Health
Organization Country Office in Iran, the Iranian Osteoporosis
Network and the Iranian Osteoporosis Society have cooperated to
help hold the workshop.
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National Tuberculosis Control Programme In-depth review mission
in Iran, Sep 2010:
From 18-23 September 2010, a team
of technical experts from WHO Regional office, Headquarter, and
countries of Eastern Mediterranean Region came to I.R.Iran to
make an in-depth review on ongoing National Tuberculosis
Programme in Iran. The main objective of this mission being
conducted frequently each three to five years in the region is
reviewing existing status and progress of the control programmes
in countries, identifying bottlenecks based on observation and
requests of host countries and finally, technical assistance to
target countries for solving identified constrains and
weaknesses. It is obvious that highlighting achievements of
countries and sharing their strengths and best practices with
others is considered as well.
The team of this mission consisted
of six technical advisors from Stop TB unit of EMRO, Global Drug
Facility Focal Point in EMRO, Technical Advisor on TB from HQ,
Head of Supra-National Laboratory of Egypt, NTP manager of
Jordan and international consultant on Laboratory from Austria.
During this mission, TB control
program was reviewed through visiting Public Health Care system,
Private sector, Drug facilities, Drug and Supply Chain
Management system, Stop TB Partnership in area of three
provinces, five Universities of Medical sciences.
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Meeting of G5
Senior Officials in Tehran, 14-15 September 2010
G5 senior Officials Meeting was
held on 14-15 September 2010 at the conference Hall of the
Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran- Iran.
The G5 is a Memorandum of
Understanding signed 5 years ago by the Ministry of Health of
Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and WHO Regional Director
in order to enhance an inter-country cooperation for control,
elimination and eradication of major communicable disease
including Malaria, Tuberculosis, Poliomyelitis and Crimean-Congo
Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF). The main theme of this meeting was
“Joint Work for Solving Joint Problems in Line with Promoting
health in the Region”.
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Assessment mission on MDR (Multi Drug Resistant) Tuberculosis to
I.R.Iran, 1-5 August 2010
I.R. Iran plans to develop
clinical management of MDR on several clinical facilities in
provincial level and sprovide training opportunities for
professional staff. In line with the Global Fund project for TB,
training workshops are suggested to be conducted jointly by
national and international experts in order to transfer
knowledge to leading professional and peripheral levels, as well
as to reduce knowledge gap between the national
professionals. An assessment mission is planned to analyze the
current MDR situation and make necessary recommendations for way
forward re-training and scaling up of MDR care. In this regard,
Dr Salem Barghout, the TB coordinator form WHO/EMRO has carried
out a five day visit during the above mentioned dates to assess
developments made to Tehran and Tabriz cities.
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Meeting on Family Physician was held between professionals
from WHO/EMRO and MOH&ME on 17 July 2010, Tehran, Iran
A major achievement of PHC in Iran
over the past 20 years has been the improvement of rural health
and the near elimination of health disparities between
higher-income urban populations and the rural poor. Nearly 100%
of rural population has access to PHC services delivered in
Health Houses and family physician in Rural Health centers. As
an example, in 1974 the infant mortality rate was 120 and 62 per
thousand live births for rural and urban areas, respectively. By
2000, however, both the level and the differential of infant
mortality had declined considerably, to 30 for rural areas and
28 for urban ones.
However, the main weakness is the
lack of Family Physician in Urban areas which is compensated by
the private sector. The private sector in addition to providing
PHC facilities plays a major role in the provision of secondary
and tertiary care. However, there is a growing realization among
the politicians and the government to address the problem of
family physician in urban areas and thus address the high out of
pocket expenditures. 3 provinces have been selected as the pilot
areas. These include the Khoozestan, Sisitan Baluchestan and
Char Mahal Bakhtiari provinces
In line with this, a meeting was
held on 17 July 2010 in the International Relations Department
of the Ministry of Health, between WHO and MOHME in which
Medical University officials from the above mentioned provinces
also participated. Dr Sameen Siddiqi, DHS coordinator, WHO/EMRO
presented a presentation on different aspects of family
physician program emphasizing on the importance of proper
training for the medical doctors to be able to undertake the
tasks of family physicians. Dr Emami Razavi, Deputy Minister for
Curative Affairs and Dr Shariati, head of Centre for Network
Management also provided useful information on the current work
going on in Iran. Dr Ambrogio Manenti, WHO representative
highlighted important aspects for better implementation of the
program providing examples from successful experiences in other
countries. The meeting was a good opportunity for sharing points
of view and interaction.
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National workshop for Expansion of the Patient Safety Friendly
Hospital Initiative, 14 – 17 July, 2010, Tehran, Iran
Patient safety is a fundamental
principle of health care. Every point in the process of
care-giving contains a certain degree of inherent unsafety.
Adverse events may result from problems in practice, products,
procedures or systems. In October 2004 WHO launched a patient
safety programme in response to a World Health Assembly
Resolution (2002) urging WHO and Member States to pay the
closest possible attention to the problem of patient safety. Its
establishment underlined the importance of patient safety as a
global health-care issue. Considering the importance of this
topic, it has been included in the JPRM activities for 2010-11
including a workshop to increase the knowledge of the national
counterparts regarding patient safety issues and the assessment
of patient safety using the “WHO manual for assessing patient
safety”. Participants were chosen from 10 different types of
hospitals (university and non-university) comprising of three
participants from each hospital, including a physician, a nurse
and a manager
The workshop included interactive
sessions, panel and group discussions covering the following
topics:
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Patient Safety Friendly
Hospital Initiative in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
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Overview of the PSFHI
Assessment Manual
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Challenges to patient safety
in Iran hospitals
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Patient safety standards
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Assessment methodology based
on PSFHI Manual
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Leveling and scoring patient
safety standards
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PSFHI: Tools and instruments
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Outline of a PSFH assessment
report
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Assessing the magnitude of
adverse events [medical errors] in hospitals
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Next steps towards expansion
of Patient Safety in Iran
On the second day of the workshop,
a visit was arranged to one of the hospitals, i.e. Chamran
hospital where practical training was provided using the WHO
Patient Safety manual
A participatory approach was used
throughout the workshop, keeping the formal presentations to the
minimum with more time allocated to interactive discussions,
questions and group work. The local experts also shared their
experiences.
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Capacity Building Workshop on Health Systems Development for
MOH&ME Officials and University Chancellors 11 – 14 July 2010
Health system is the platform on
which all the health programs perform. Therefore, its weakness
or strength can directly influence health outcomes. A good
understanding of health system components, functions and
performance assessment by the concerned responsible persons and
authorities is fundamental. It is important to keep in mind that
many of the decisions that can influence health of the people
are made outside the health sector, so all responsible persons
whether in the health sector or outside health sector should
reach a common understanding of the health system terminology
and should be aware of how their choices can influence the
health outcomes. Iran is a country facing demographic and
epidemiological transitions; which reflects the need for a shift
towards more comprehensive thinking about the performance of the
health system as a whole considering PHC as the central theme.
In this regard WHO country office
in Iran in collaboration with MOH&ME conducted a capacity
building workshop on Health Systems Development which aimed to
cover the following objectives:
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Increased knowledge about
health system & HS strengthening
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Retooled health professionals
in health system performance assessment (analytical tools)
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Increased awareness about
institutionalization & internalization of analytical tools
(support of academia)
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Enrichment of health system
performance assessment framework
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Involvement of academics in
training on Health System Strengthening at country level
The workshop included interactive
sessions, panel and group discussions, problem solving
exercises, case studies and group work. The experience of the
local experts was also used in areas such as Social Determinants
of Health. A participatory approach was used throughout the
workshop, keeping the formal presentations to the minimum with
more time allocated to interactive discussions, experience
sharing and group work.
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Iranian Anti Tobacco Association was awarded for the WNTD2010
prize, by WHO/EMRO
The Iranian Anti Tobacco
Association (IATA) was founded by a group of physicians and
benevolent people in 1983. IATA’s key aims include: increasing
society’s knowledge about the harms of tobacco; establishing
cessation clinics; reducing tobacco consumption, particularly
among young people and women; and enacting tobacco control laws.
Every year, the World
Health Organization (WHO) presents several awards to key people
and/or organizations that have made invaluable contributions to
tobacco control and that have helped make World No Tobacco Day (WNTD),
its theme and celebration a great success. These awards are a
sentiment of appreciation on behalf of WHO to the great efforts
and time that these people and/or organizations have invested in
the campaign as well as in fighting tobacco.
This year, IATA was awarded among
five other for the prize. Click
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for more information on this issue.
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Visit of the team
of National Regulatory Authority to Iran, 3-6 May 2010
Biological medicinal products,
such as vaccines, blood and blood products, diagnostics, gene
therapy, biotechnology products, cytokines and growth factors,
and cell and tissue products rely heavily on international
standardization to ensure their quality and their equivalence
across manufacturers. For over a half-century, WHO has been
active in the field of biological standardization, bringing
together scientists and policy makers on a global scale to find
consensus approaches to the manufacturing, testing and
regulatory oversight of these medicinal products. The main aim
of WHO vaccine prequalification program is to ensure the
Vaccines used in immunization programs are safe and effective.
As a prerequisite for prequalification of vaccines by WHO, The
National Regulatory Authority responsible of the product is
should be "functional" as per assessment performed using the WHO
established indicators.
WHO has conducted four formal
assessments to document and follow recommendations to strengthen
the Iranian vaccine regulatory system (1997, 2002, 2004 and
2006), and ten follow up visits until now. The last follow up
visit was in March 2010 and the last final assessment was
conducted on 3-6 May 2010.
Overall the WHO NRA assessment
findings show that all functions are now implemented and all
critical indicators for the WHO vaccine prequalification are
met. Most of the regulatory functions had achieved a score that
ranged from 83% to 97% sub indicators implemented with 100% of
critical indicators implemented. This great success was
celebrated on the last day, 6 May 2010, with the presence of HE
Dr Rahimi, vice-president, HE Dr Vahid Dastjerdi, the Minister
of Health and other high rank officials from the Ministry of
Health and Medical Education. The WHO team from WHO/HQ, WHO/EMRO
and WHO country office, was appreciated for its efforts during
the ceremony.
This is of course the first step
towards a long path ahead, which demands continuous follow up
and attention. WHO provided its recommendations in order to
maintain this success and improve further in the end of the
ceremony.
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Speech
of Dr Manenti at the ceremony
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2nd National Disaster Health Management and Risk Reduction
training course
Tehran University of Medical
Sciences in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and
Medical Education (MOHME) organizes the 2nd National Disaster
Health Management and Risk Reduction training course (DHMR-2) at
Tehran University of Medical Sciences from 1-12 May 2010. The
objective of this 12 day training course is to strengthen
national training capacities in Disaster Preparedness and
Management and provide a venue for exchange of knowledge and
insights and a means for fostering support for initiatives
within the health sector of Iran to enhance capacity in disaster
management.
21 managers and technical officers
of Emergency Management Centers (EMC) from 9 provinces of the
country have participated the training course. DHMR curriculum
has been developed by a joint collaboration between World Health
Organization (WHO) technical consultants and School of Public
Health of Tehran University of Medical Sciences through a grant
awarded from International Association of National Public Health
Institutes (IANPHI).
On the day of opening ceremony, Dr
Ambrogio Manenti, WHO Representative in Iran inaugurated the
course by delivering his
speech on the
importance of risk reduction, emergency preparedness and
management during disasters.
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World Asthma Day in Iran,
2 May 2010
The Iranian Society of Asthma and
Allergy conducted the Thirteenth Conference on the World Asthma
Day in Imam Hall of Imam Khomeini Hospital, on 3rd May 2010.
The ceremony was chaired by Dr
Mostafa Moein, the President of the Iranian Society of Asthma
and Allergy.
On this occasion other speakers
made presentations on asthma diagnosis, treatment, prevention
and control. Dr Ambrogio Manenti, WHO Representative in Iran,
delivered the message of Dr Hussein Gezairy, WHO Regional
Director of Eastern Mediterranean Region, on the occasion of
World Asthma Day 2010.
In addition to a film show, stalls
were also organized by activist groups, societies and
organizations.
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Asthma Day 2010 ceremony.
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First International conference on Urban-HEALTH, 24 – 25 April 2010
Tehran – Iran
The first national conference on
Urban Health has been organized by Tehran Municipality in
collaboration with Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS).
The conference conducted in Razi conference hall of IUMS. The
purpose of the conference was not only to review best practices,
researches and studies on the health issues in the urban areas
but also to inform related authorities on establishment of
scientific committee for urban health in Iran due to large
number of urbanization in Iranian (more than 65% of total
population). The participants were faculty members from
different universities, researchers, experts of Tehran
municipality in different departments, along with experts and
directors from MOH and other related ministries. The subject
areas of the conference were; Governance, Food security and
Nutrition, Health, Social, cultural, and Economic, and Physical
environment and infrastructure.
Following to introducing of Urban
Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) in
Iran, which was developed by WHO Kobe Center and has been
piloted in Tehran (by Tehran Municipality and school of public
health of IUMS) and 4 other cities around the world, illustrated
inequity between some of the indicators used in the study among
22 municipal districts. This encouraged the relevant authorities
and policy makers whom informed about the result of assessment
part of the Urban HEART to put health equity in their agenda
with more evidence based approach. This conference provided this
ground for showing political commitment on health equity.
The conference organized 46
scientific sessions in 45 panels along with 245 oral
presentation and 400 poster presentations. The conference
inaugurated by Dr. Abtahi Chancellor of IUMS, Dr Marandi Head of
Steering committee of urban health in the municipality who is
also member of parliament and director of academy of medical
sciences, speech of Dr. Gezairy Regional Director (RD) of WHO
Eastern Mediteranean Region, which was read by Dr. Manenti the
WHO Representative in Iran, and Dr. Ghalibaf the Mayor of
Tehran. The welcome note was given by Dr. Ayazi, Deputy Mayor
for social and cultural affairs. The conference was concluded by
the declaration on 11 items from the conference participants.
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I.R. Iran celebrates World Health
Day 2010
In a ceremony on April 11th at RAZI conference
hall, the Ministry of Health & Medical Education in collaboration with other related
governmental bodies, celebrated the World Health Day 2010 under the theme of
"1000 Cities, 1000 Lives".
The ceremony started by projecting
a video spot on "Health & Urbanization" followed by welcoming
speech of Dr Aghajani (Head of office of H. E. Minister of
Health) then a number of health related officials were awarded.
The ceremony was then inaugurated by His Excellency the Vice
President Dr Rahimi. The message of Dr Gezairy , the WHO's
Eastern Mediterranean Regional Director was read by the WHO
Representative Dr Ambrogio Manenti. A slide show was projected
showing a collection of the selected drawings from Iranian students
who participated in the WHO/EMRO's region-wide art competition
on the occasion of WHD-2010.
A group of female students from
Tehran's Shahid-Ali-Gol primary school performed a
group-song on the stage about health. There were speeches from
His Excellency Dr Mahsouli Minister of Welfare , His Excellency
Dr Haji Babaee Minister of Education , and Her Excellency Dr Vahid Dastjerdi
Minister of Health . At the end of ceremony
another group of officials from health related organizations and institutes were awarded as "Health supporters" for their
significant role on nationwide development of health.
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Size estimations of key populations at risk of HIV & STI; 11-15
October 2009-The
Kerman University of Medical Sciences has been nominated to act
as a Regional knowledge hub on HIV/AIDS surveillance. This
center has actively contributed in HIV/AIDS surveillance program
by translating and publishing a guideline and also by
successfully holding the regional workshop. Another regional
knowledge hub based in Zagreb also contributed technically in
this workshop. Twenty two people participated in the course. The
knowledge hub is going to hold another regional workshop with
subject of new sampling methods for tackling most at risk
populations.
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World Sight Day 2009 (WSD)-World
Sight Day is an annual day of awareness to focus global
attention on blindness, visual impairment and rehabilitation of
the visually impaired held on the second Thursday in October.
This year the focus is on eye health and equal access care.
On 15 October 2009, WHO Collaborating Center,
Ophthalmic Research Center, held a seminar at Labbafinejad
Hospital which was attended by television reporters,
ophthalmologists, WHO Iran Representative, Chancellor of Shahid
Beheshti University and Officials of Ministry of Health
and Medical Education. Interactive lectures highlighted the
importance of WSD, and provided information on the worldwide
situation with regard to gender & eye health while also
emphasizing the importance of community participation in
assuring the success of programmers to address it. You may refer
to the below URL for more information.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/annual/world_sight_day/en/
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Afghan Religious leaders study tour -HIV/AIDS program; 14-16
November 2009
A group of
10 religious leaders of Afghanistan had a study tour to visit
the successful HIV/AIDS programs in Iran. For more information
please refer to:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/annual/world_mental_health_day/en/
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WHO Kobe Center Mission to follow up the pilot of Urban Heart
Following to pilot process of Urban Health Equity and Response
Tool (HEART) by Tehran Municipality in collaboration with
stakeholders, an expert from WHO Kobe Center traveled to Tehran
on 21-23 February 2009 to meet with stakeholders involved in
carrying out the pilot of Urban HEART and to identify lesson
learned, challenges, and to review planned activities to
accomplish pilot phase by December 2009. The Urban Health Equity
and Response Tool (Urban HEART) has been developed by WHO Kobe
Center in Japan to mainstream the recommendations of the
Knowledge Network on Urban Settings of the WHO commission on
Social Determinants of Health.
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Supporting Community Based Rehabilitation Program through
Consultancy
An international consultant came to Iran from 23 to 30 January
2009 to provide technical support to Community Based
Rehabilitation program and the unit in the State Welfare
Organization by training the related experts at national and
provisional levels.
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The 62nd World Health Assembly opened on 18 May 2009 in Geneva,
as officials from 193 member countries began their annual review
of the activities of the WHO and set new priorities for the
future. It closed on 22 May 2009 with the adoption of
resolutions on a variety of global health issues including
primary health care, the prevention and control of multidrug-
resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, public
health, innovation and intellectual property and pandemic
influenza preparedness. The Health Assembly also passed the
Programme Budget.
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Follow up visit to review progress of the vaccine regulatory
system in the Islamic Republic of Iran and assess potential for
future WHO vaccine prequalification, 20 - 22 April 2009
Upon the request of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education
(MOHME) the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a follow
up visit to review progress of the vaccine regulatory system
from 20 to 22 April 2009. As agreed with the MOHME the
objectives of the team were a) to review the progress since last
WHO visit (20-22 November 2007) and previous National Regulatory
Authority (NRA) assessment (10-14 April 2006) and b) to
determine the tentative timeframe for the formal WHO NRA
re-assessment in Iran against the revised NRA indicators.
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World Health Statistics 2009
World Health Statistics 2009 contains WHO's annual compilation
of data from its 193 Member States, and includes a summary of
progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals
and targets. This edition also contains a new section on
reported cases of selected infectious diseases.
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