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Bats Without Borders: Long-Distance Movements and Implications for Disease Risk Management
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:53:28 +0100 | EcoHealth
Abstract Fruit bats of the genus Pteropus (commonly known as flying-foxes) are the natural hosts of several recently emerged zoonotic viruses of animal and human health significance in Australia and Asia, including Hendra and Nipah viruses. Satellite telemetry was used on nine flying-foxes of three species (Pteropus alecto n = 5, P. vampyrus n = 2, and P. neohibernicus n = 2) to determine the scale and pattern of their long-distance movements and their potential to transfer these viruses between countries in the region. The animals were captured and released from six different locations in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Timor-Leste. Their movements were recorded for a median of 120 (range, 47–342) days with a median total distan...

Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Southeast Asia.
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:45:04 +0100 | Advances in Parasitology
Authors: Sudomo M, Chayabejara S, Duong S, Hernandez L, Wu WP, Bergquist R Approximately 15 million people with lymphatic filariasis (LF) live in Southeast Asia. Wuchereria bancrofti (transmitted by the Mansonia and Anopheles vectors), Brugia malayi and Brugia timori (both transmitted by Culex quinquefasciatus) are the filarial species in this region. The endemic countries are: Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Timor-Leste, which have all agreed to eliminate transmission of the disease by 2020. The public health interventions with respect to LF are based on the 1997 World Health Assembly resolution (WHA 50.29) which recommends elimination of the disease through mass drug administration (MDA) using diethylcarbamazine (DEC) and albendazo...

Torture, Truth and Justice: The case of Timor-Leste
Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:17:03 +0100 | British Journal of Criminology - recent issues
(Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues)

Timor-Leste: UN helps set up local factory to produce fortified food
Wed, 26 May 2010 05:00:00 +0100 | UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population
Vulnerable people in Timor-Leste will receive a nutritional boost, thanks to a new food fortification factory set up with assistance from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)

Training and using mid-level eye care workers: early lessons from Timor-Leste
Sun, 23 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 | Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Conclusions: Adherence to current best practice in the design and delivery of the curriculum and course was insufficient to ensure productive graduates of ongoing clinical competency, positioned to make an impact on eye health. Attention needs to be directed to postgraduation integration into the workplace, and continuing support once there. The efficacy of this mid-level cadre and its impact on eye health requires further evaluation. (Source: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology)

Infant and young child feeding indicators across nine East and Southeast Asian countries: an analysis of National Survey Data 2000-2005.
Mon, 03 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 | Public Health Nutrition
CONCLUSIONS: All the countries studied should make greater efforts to improve timely initiation of breast-feeding and EBF for 6 months. Measures should be taken to reduce high bottle-feeding rate in the Philippines, Mongolia, Indonesia and Vietnam, and improve complementary-feeding rate in Lao PDR, Myanmar, DPR Korea and Philippines. PMID: 20441662 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Public Health Nutrition)

The prevalence of common skin infections in four districts in Timor-Leste: a cross sectional survey
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 | BMC Infectious Diseases
We examined the skin of 1535 participants aged between four months and 97 years. The majority of participants were male, aged between 11 and 20 years and had at least one condition of interest (56.0%, 56.0%, and 63.1%, respectively). Fungal infections were the most common presentation (39.0%) and males were more commonly affected than females (42.3% vs 34.0%, respectively, pvalue (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)

Social and trauma-related pathways leading to psychological distress and functional limitations four years after the humanitarian emergency in Timor-Leste
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 | Journal of Traumatic Stress
There is growing acknowledgment that research in the postconflict field needs to include a focus on social conditions. The authors applied structural equation modeling to epidemiologic data obtained from postconflict Timor-Leste, to examine for links involving potentially traumatic events and sociodemographic factors (age, gender, educational levels, and unemployment) with psychological symptoms and functioning. Exposure to trauma and lack of education emerged as most relevant with psychological distress impacting on education in the urban area. Age and gender exerted influences at different points in the model consistent with the known history of Timor. Although based on cross-sectional data, the model supports the relevance of past trauma, posttraumatic distress, and postconflict social ...

Timor-Leste hospital receives life-saving obstetrics equipment from UN
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 | UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population
To help combat high maternal mortality rates in Timor-Leste, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has supplied equipment to assist in child delivery to a hospital in the capital of the fledgling nation. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)