Translation of "Lois sur les maladies transmissibles " (French → English) :

communicable disease legislation [ legislation on communicable diseases ]

infectious disease [ bacterial disease | cholera | communicable disease | contagious disease | leprosy | malaria | parasitic disease | sleeping sickness | trypanosomiasis | tuberculosis | viral disease | viral diseases | yellow fever ]

emerging communicable disease | new communicable disease

sexually transmitted infection [ STI | sexually transmitted disease | venereal disease ]

sexually transmitted infection | STI | sexually transmitted disease | STD | venereal disease

blood-borne and sexually transmitted infection [ sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection | blood-borne and sexually transmitted disease | sexually transmitted and blood-borne disease ]

network for epidemiological surveillance

Programme of Community action on the prevention of AIDS and certain other communicable diseases

disease of the nervous system [ Alzheimer's disease | CJD | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | degenerative disease of the nervous system | multiple sclerosis | neurological disease | neuropathy | transmissible spongiform encephalopathy | TSE ]

sexually transmitted disease

Health || Reduce child mortality, maternal mortality and ensure universal sexual and reproductive health and rights Could include infant and maternal mortality, adolescent fertility and access to family planning || Reduce the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases Could include the main communicable and non-communicable diseases || Achieve effective and equitable universal coverage with quality health services for all including for vulnerable people, such as persons with disabilities or older people Could include health promotion, preventive services, treatment and rehabilitation and availability and quality of health workf ...[+++]orce || Ensure that no-one is pushed into extreme poverty or remains there because of expenditure on health care Could include impoverishment due to out of pocket payments || ||

RECOGNISES that communicable diseases, including some re-emerging ones, such as tuberculosis, measles, pertussis and rubella, still present a public health challenge and can cause a high number of infections and deaths, and that the recent emergence and outbreaks of communicable diseases, such as polio, avian influenza H5N1 and H7N9, Middle East respiratory syndrome caused by a coronavirus (MERS) and Ebola virus disease have confirmed that vigilance must remain high also with respect to diseases that are not currently present in the territory of the Union.

Communicable diseases includes diseases preventable by vaccination, sexually-transmitted diseases, viral hepatitis, food-borne diseases, water-borne diseases and diseases of environmental origin, nosocomial infections, other diseases transmissible by non-conventional agents (including Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease), diseases covered by the international health regulations (yellow fever, cholera and plague) and other diseases (rabies, typhus, viral haemorrhagic fevers, malaria and any other as yet unclassified serious epidemic disease, e ...[+++]tc.)

46. Recognises that the basic laws of demand and supply if applied to countries characterised by limited purchasing power will not be favourable to attracting the RD effort of pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs against communicable diseases; proposes therefore that the Sixth Framework Programme devote considerable funding to research into diseases of the poor, and that cooperative projects with research or public institutes or private-public partnerships intended to benefit poverty-stricken countries, should be given priority;