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​​The following links concern communicable diseases 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​ 

Audio Visual Materials

• A documentary ​movie about Pneumonia in Egypt - by EMSA - Egypt (Shady Ezzat, 2011)
• Arabic Revolutions Come With A Plague   (ViralMedia24, 2013)
•  تزايد الاصابات بالأمراض بين نازحي الصومال(aljazeerachannel, 2011)
• ارتفاع نسبة مرضى الملاريا في موريتانيا (WorldNewsPlatform, 2012) 

Bibliography & publications

• Wanis, H. 2014. HCV Treatment in Egypt Why cost remains a challenge? Economic and Social Justice Unit. Cairo: Egypt.

Blogs

• HIV in the Arab World

Centers, Institutes and Groups

• HPV Information Centre
• Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (Qatar)
• Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum (Sudan)
• Joint Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, also referred to as International Center for Vector-Borne Diseases (Saudi Arabia) (a collaboration of the Ministry of Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and the Innovative Vector Control Consortium)

Conferences

• 7th International Conference on Health Issues in Arab Communities, 1-7 March 2015 (Muscat, Oman)
• ICID 2016 : 18th International Conference on Infectious Disease,  26-27 January 2016 (jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

Data and statistics

• Global Health Observatory Data Repository (WHO): Epidemic prone diseases, HIV/AIDS and other STIs, Malaria, Tuberculosis
• HPV Information Centre: 
• 2014 Summary report on HPV prevalence and cancer: Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
• Data Query (statistics on prevalence , burden, risk, prevention & socio-demographics of HPV) 
• Leprosy situation in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO EMRO): 2006, 2005
• Malaria Country Profiles 2012 (WHO): Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Mauritania, Saud Arabia, Somalia, Yemen
• MDG 6: HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (WHO) 
• Urban health: Health determinants (WHO): Knowledge of transmission of HIV/AIDS

Journals

• Journal of Infection and Public Health (Elsevier Middle East)

Maps

• Geographical distribution of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever
• Global Alert and Response (GAR)
• Global Health Observatory (GHO) Map Gallery (WHO): Cholera, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Meningococcal meningitis, Neglected tropical diseases, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Tuberculosis,
• Tropical Diseases Research to Foster Innovation & Knowedge Application (TropIKA)

Networks

• ​EpiSouth Network - Network for the Control of Public Health Threats in the Mediterranean Region and South East Europe
• Sudan Infectious Diseases Network (Sudan)    

Publications

• Comprehensive Control of HPV Infections and Related Diseases in the Extended Middle East and North Africa Region (Vaccine, Vol 31, Supplement 6, Pages G1-G82, 2013)
• Communicable diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: prevention and control 2012–2013 (WHO EMRO, 2014)

WHO Collaborating Centres

• WHO Collaborating Centre for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (Egypt)
• WHO Collaborating Centre on Leishmaniasis Control (Syria)
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (Sudan)
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Schistosomiasis Control (Egypt)
• WHO Collaborating Center for Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Control (Egypt)

WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean 

• Infectious diseases (WHO EMRO)
• Surveillance, forecasting and response (WHO EMRO)