Enviado por a.fernandez el Mié, 09/23/2015 - 23:08
Dear Martin and colleagues,
Following your advice from the SHIPSAN newsletter number 14, I have recently finished the e-learning course regarding the different issues of ballast water in the Globallast website.
All in all I found it deeply motivating but in the end as you well pointed out BW checks are often seen as a lower priority to a Port Health Officer.
Publication date:
Jueves, Septiembre 3, 2015
Enviado por teresacastelo el Vie, 07/31/2015 - 15:38
Dear Colleagues. I need some help.
The International Health Regulations 2005 (Anex V) establishes that WHO will publish in a frequent and periodic basis a list of areas for which disinfection procedures in aircrafts or other measures for vectors control are recommended to prevent vector-borne diseases.
Nowadays, in Brazil, we use, the list of countries with risk of yellow fever transmission for this purpose. Is there another WHO list of areas addressing to the issue desinfection?
Regards,
Teresa Castelo Branco
Enviado por Martin Walker el Lun, 06/22/2015 - 15:52
I am due to give a presentation to the PAGNet Maritime on 7 July about the Ports and Shipping Group.
My plan is to outline what has been covered during the last year, but also to set out some of my ideas to develop the Ports and Shipping Group for the future. Whilst I have a number of ideas that I would like to consider for development, I would be very interested to hear members views as to what they would like to see. Specifically, I would be grateful for your thoughts about the following:
1 What are the most useful features to you from the Ports and Shipping Group?
Enviado por Martin Walker el Vie, 04/24/2015 - 14:03
WHO has declared tomorrow as World Malaria Day 2015.
The WHO website has several pages devoted to the day and the latest statistics about Malaria (which highlight the scale of this disease) can be found at http://www.who.int/campaigns/malaria-day/2015/en/ Four countries were declared free of malaria in the last decade and the strategy is to increase this to 35 by 2030.
Enviado por DrChristopher el Lun, 01/05/2015 - 22:20
Hello everyone!
Many of us are returning today of holiday vacations, so it's a pleasure to greet all of you from Costa Rica, and to wish you all the best in this 2015.
Let's keep up with the good work and the IHR surveillance as good as it has been so far, preventing communicable diseases all around the world!
Good job everybody!
Dr. Christopher Ureña Chacón
Puerto Caldera, Esparza
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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