Infectious Diseases

Tuberculosis

1 October 1998

The first Office of Health Economics (OHE) disease state booklet, written in 1962, was entitled ‘Progress against Tuberculosis’ and was published at a time of great…

Hospital Acquired Infection

8 January 1997

‘About one in ten patients in acute hospitals at any one time has an infection acquired after admission to hospitals’ (DH/PHLS, 1995, pi). This quotation, introducing…

Aids in Africa: Meeting the Challenge through Training Education and Prevention

1 January 1992

AIDS poses a formidable challenge to African policy makers and health professionals. Of the estimated 9 to 11 million cases of HIV infection worldwide, some 7…

AIDS: Worldwide Policies and Problems

1 September 1991

The condition which was later to be called AIDS emerged in the early 1980s in several widely separated locations, including the United States, Haiti, Belgium, France,…

HIV and AIDS in the United Kingdom

1 January 1988

Since the first identification of the AIDS syndrome in Los Angeles in 1981 (and the description of the virus responsible- now termed HIV 1 -in 1983)…

AIDS Virus: Forecasting Its Impact

1 December 1986

In purely quantitative terms, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) might not appear to have warranted the remarkable amount of attention it has attracted since 1982. By…

Immunisation for Everyone – The Polio Experience

1 September 1979

In the richer nations of Europe and North America the gaining of control over the common infectious illnesses was a long, gradual process. It was initiated…

Viral Hepatitis in Britain

1 January 1977

Viral hepatitis consists of at least two distinct disease entities. Although they are both virus infections of the liver which may lead to clinical ‘yellow jaundice’,…

Rabies

1 April 1976

Rabies, which is traditionally regarded as a mortal condition in humans once the symptoms have developed, is the best known and most feared of all the…