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WHO participated in and organized a contributed papers session on September 7, 2000, as follows:

Title: Statistics through a Health and Human Rights Lens 

 

Organiser and Chair:

  • Mr. Daniel TARANTOLA, Senior Policy Adviser, Director General's Office, World Health Organisation

Speakers:

  • Mr. Abhaya INDRAYAN (India) :
    " Trend in access to medical and health services in rural areas of India"

  • Mr. Samuel L. NSAMBA (Uganda) :
    " Post traumatic stress disorder - A retrospective study of patients treated at ACTV, Makerere Kavule Kampala"

  • Mrs. Ahyani RAKSANAGARA (Indonesia) :
    " The relation between source of information and the knowledge about HIV / AIDS for adolescent street children in Bandung, 1999"

  • Mr. Kazi TOUFIQUE (Bangladesh) :
    " Low costs source of statistics in poor countries: Generating and disseminating useful data from medico-legal autopsy finding"

Discussants:

  • Mrs. Helena NYGREN-KRUG, Health and Human Rights Team, World Health Organisation
    Mrs. Sofia GRUSKIN, Harvard School of Public Health (USA)

 

 

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