This method, called surveillance among health care professionals, is not new.
Also, the World Health Assembly, Organisation of American States, and African Union passed resolutions on NTDs, and the World Health Organisation's African regional committee adopted a strategic plan recommending increased access to treatments, increased investments, and surveillance, among other actions.
On Monday, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman proposed a bill in Congress to establish a domestic and global network for avian flu surveillance among wild birds, creating a database for sharing information and pinpointing any mutations in flu.
This article examines the ethical implications of using respondent-driven sampling (RDS) to conduct HIV behaviour surveillance among injection drug users (IDUs) in Chicago.
"There is both widespread concern about government surveillance among the American public and a lack of confidence in the security of core communications channels," she said.
Automatic interpretation of human actions gained strong interest among researchers in patter recognition and computer vision because of its wide range of applications, such as in social and home robotics, elderly people health care, surveillance, among others.
It also caused his family "trauma and paranoia from FBI surveillance," among other consequences, Joyce said. .
What is the optimal future method of conducting HIV surveillance among TB patients in India?
The main source of HIV prevalence data is antenatal clinic (ANC) surveillance among pregnant women attending for antenatal care in selected health facilities.
This approach to HIV surveillance among TB patients has been included in WHO guidelines[4] and is in line with current National AIDS programme HIV surveillance strategy.
Periodic HIV surveillance among tuberculosis patients may still have some value in low HIV prevalence states to detect when intensification of TB-HIV collaborative activities is indicated, or as a sentinel activity to detect early increases in community HIV seroprevalence.
