Volume 3, Number 3, 2012, Pages 1–85 p-ISSN: 2094-7321 e-ISSN: 2094-7313
HIV and other sexually transmitted infections
Editorial
Other topics
Strengthening surveillance of and response to HIV in the Western Pacific: where are we? 1
Perspectives
Yu D and Lo Y
Sex, gender and emerging infectious disease surveillance: a leptospirosis case study 37
Regional Analyses
Skufca J and Arima Y
How the countries in the Western Pacific Region tracking the HIV epidemic? Results from a 2011 survey of the ministries of health 3
How can we fight against antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region? 40
Yu D, Wi T and Garcia Callega J
Gu Y and Kaku M
HIV surveillance systems in the Asia Pacific region
Surveillance Report
9
Loo V, Saidel T, Reddy A, Htin KCW, Shwe YY and Verbruggen B
Original Research
15
Rule J, Worth H, Roberts G and Taylor R
HIV and AIDS Data Hub for Asia Pacific: a regional tool to support strategic information needs
18
Reddy A, Htin KCW and Shwe YY
Original Research
Uptake of interventions for preventing motherto-child HIV transmission in 11 operational districts in Cambodia 22 Sovannarith S, Sokleng S, Romaing T, Sovanna T, Welle E, Fujita M, Poudel KC, Barr-DiChiara M, Bora N, Sopheap S, Sovatha M, Campbell P and Vun MC
29
Nga NT, Jacka D, Hai NV, Trinh NK, Boisen N and Neukom J
Letter to the Editor
An online framework for introducing STI pointof-care tests in Pacific island countries and areas 35 Natoli L and Coghlan B
Respiratory virus laboratory pandemic planning and surveillance in central Viet Nam, 2008–2010
49
Tran T, Chien BT, Papadakis G, Druce J, Birch C, Chibo D, Truon PA, Trang LTK, Trieu NB, Thuy TT, Catton M and Trinh XM
High-risk and multiple human papillovirus infections among married women in Can Tho, Viet Nam
57
Vu LTH
Surveillance should be strengthened to improve epidemiological understandings of mosquito-borne Barmah Forest virus infection 63 Ehlkes L, Eastwood K, Webb C and Durrheim D
Lesson from the Field
Innovative data tools: a suite for managing peer outreach to key affected populations in Viet Nam
43
Jantsansengeegiin B, Tseesurengiin T, Badarchyn D and Erdenebaataraiin S
Perspectives
Human resource challenges in scaling up the response to HIV in Papua New Guinea
Analysis of fatal outcomes from influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Mongolia
A community-based sero-epidemiological study of hepatitis B infection in Linyungang, China, 2010 69 Zhang T, Xiao Z, Ling H, Ge C, Ying L, Ding Q, Xu K, Mao Y, Du Y, Zhu L
Influenza B outbreak in a primary school in Adelaide, Australia, 2011
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Flood L, Raupach, D’Onise K and Russo D
Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal instructions to authors 83
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Editorial
Strengthening the surveillance of and response to HIV in the Western Pacific Dongbao Yua and Ying-Ru Loa Correspondences to Dongbao Yu (e-mail:
[email protected]).
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ountries in the Western Pacific Region have lowlevel epidemics – HIV may have been present for many years but never spread to substantial levels in any subpopulation; i.e. prevalence has not been consistently >5% in any subpopulation - or concentrated HIV epidemics – the spread of HIV has occurred in a defined subpopulation; i.e. prevalence is consistently >5% in a defined subpopulation but is
