Current Topics Towards the Control of Malaria.
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Accession number;00A0534631
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| Title;Current Topics Towards the Control of Malaria. |
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KANO SHIGEYUKI
(Res. Inst, International Medical Center of Japan, JPN)
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Journal Title;Japanese Journal of National Medical Services
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Journal Code:F0707A
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ISSN:0021-1699
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VOL.54;NO.4;PAGE.157-161(2000)
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| Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.1, TBL.1, REF.14 |
| Pub. Country;Japan |
| Language;Japanese |
| Abstract;Malaria is one of the most devastating diseases in the context of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. We have to be fully prepared for the introduction of the disease into Japan under recently enforced "the new law for the prevention of infectious diseases" as it is called. However, prompt diagnosis and proper treatment are not always to be provided in Japan, because of our relatively poor awareness of its importance and inappropriate supply of effective anti-malaria drugs. Travel medicine is rarely practiced though it is indispensable as internationalization or globalization of our society progresses. It is also quite important for us to contribute to the control of malaria in the tropical countries. The former prime minister Hashimoto pointed out its importance in the G8 summit in Denver, 1997, and then Japanese Government started to promote Global Parasite Control Strategy for the 21 century or "Hashimoto Initiative". Another initiative suggested by WHO as "Roll Back Malaria" is also a global malaria control program, to which Japanese Government should contribute. Now requirement for the investment into the basic and applied research of malaria is recognized, and the budget will be increasing in the area of Grant-in-aid for scientific research of the Ministry of Education. Science, Sports and Culture, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan. (author abst.) |
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