​The following links concern the burden of disease in the Arab world. This page will be updated regularly so please visit often.

Suggest additional resources or tell us if a link is broken. Please write us at: phaw-admin@aub.edu.lb​

Bibliography and publications

• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Human Development Network, The World Bank. (2013). The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy – Middle East and North Africa Regional Edition. Seattle, WA: IHME

Collaborative scholarship projects

• HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa (Special issue in the j​ournal 'AIDS' Volume 24 Suppl 5, November 2010, p S1–S3)

Conferences

• Burden of  Cancer in the Gulf Region, 21-23 October, 2014 (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

D​ata and Statistics

• Curesearch.com - Middle East (extrapolated statistics to varietes of diseases - scroll down to "Middle East" in each link)
• Disease and injury country estimates (WHO)
• Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation - IHME) - Country profiles: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
• IHME Disease Registry (Search for countries in the bar)
• Noncommunicable Diseases Country Profiles 2011 (WHO): Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
• Oral disease burden (WHO) (with data on Arab countries) 
• ProCor Portal - Global Burden of Disease in the MENA Region

Maps

• Global Health Observatory (GHO) Map Gallery (WHO): Mortality and Global Burden of Disease

Projects and programmes

• Disease Control Priorities Project - Middle East and North Africa: Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, West Bank & Gaza, Yemen

Special Journal Issues

• ​Gender and HIV in the Middle East and North Africa: Policy Lessons for Low-Prevalence Scenarios (Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Volume 51, Supplement 3, 2009)
• HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa (AIDS, Vol 24, Suppl 5, November 2010)