Traduction de «Mesure contre les virus » (Français → Anglais) :

A further €10 million topic on research infrastructures for the control of vector-borne diseases could go a long way to combatting the mosquitos that spread Zika and a number of other prevalent diseases.

(Return tabled) Question No. 424 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With regard to the current pandemic of new influenza A (H1N1) virus in Aboriginal (First Nations, Inuit, Metis) communities in Canada: (a) what were the containment measures taken to slow the spread of the virus within households, between households, and among communities; (b) what were the control measures taken in more remote areas to flatten the epidemiological peak; (c) what ...[+++] was the average length of time from symptoms to treatment for those Aboriginal peoples who required a stay in intensive care unit (ICU); (d) what percentage of hospitalizations, ICU cases, and deaths were among Aboriginal peoples, and how do these compare with the Canadian population at large; (e) what was the average length of time on a ventilator and the mean length of stay in an ICU for Aboriginal peoples; (f) what specific measures are being planned to reduce the time to treatment, hospitalizations, ICU, and deaths; (g) when will the results of the preliminary investigation in First Nations communities be available, specifically, (i) how many Aboriginal communities in Canada have a revised H1N1 pandemic influenza plan, (ii) how many have tested their plan, (iii) how many have necessary supplies in place; (h) what specific actions have been undertaken to address the fact that only two of 30 communities in northern Manitoba had a pandemic plan, and none had been tested; (i) where did the Minister of Health obtain the 90 percent figure she used in her August 28 response letter to Drs Bennett and Duncan; (j) what funding have Aboriginal communities requested, and what additional funds have been made available to Aboriginal communities for pandemic planning and response in 2009; (k) is there any encouragement to identify vulnerable people, such as pregnant women and those with underlying medical conditions, to take additional precautions, specifically, (i) how many communities lack necessary clean water for infection control measur ...

Member States should encourage the provision of information to end-users about available precautions, and should encourage them to take the necessary steps to protect their terminal equipment against viruses and spyware.

To permit authorisation of vaccines against antigenically variable viruses in a way that ensures that the most effective measures can be taken swiftly by the Community against the incursion or spread of epizootic diseases, the concept of multi-strain dossier should be introduced.

Projects include development of: (i) new anti-retroviral treatments to overcome growing resistance of the virus; (ii) new interventions for the treatment of HIV-infected infants, pregnant women and adults; (iii) HIV microbicides to allow women that do not have the capacity to impose HIV prevention measures (safer sex through condom use) on their partners to protect themselves against HIV transmission; (iv) new and promising HIV vaccine candidates not only to prevent the ...[+++] HIV infection, but also to treat infected people; (v) new anti-HIV drugs against hidden virus that can not be accessed by other drugs, and against the escape of the virus from infected cells, (vi) vaccine delivery systems to fight viruses; and (vi) specific support actions for standardising clinical tests and monitoring HIV resistance.

- the reduction of sexual transmission : . education and information programmes, . creation and launching of media campaigns (television, radio, films, etc.), . educational programmes aimed at specific groups, . improvement of programmes to control sexually transmitted diseases (STD) ; - 4 - - the reduction and control of perinatal transmission : . screening of pregnant women, . counselling of seropositive women on the consequences of HIV infection, . advice to seronegative women on how to avoid infection, . screening and counselling of other members of the family where necessary ; - the reduction of transmission through use of contami ...[+++]ned needles, syringes and other skin-piercing instruments : . improvement of standards of professional hygiene, . education of health workers on HIV infection and transmission, . provision of needles and syringes where required, . protection of health workers ; - setting up of surveillance systems to assess the affect of control programmes and the development of the disease ; - supply of material, technical and financial aid to national AIDS control committees ; - participation in the overall assessment of national AIDS control programmes under the aegis of the WHO's SPA ; - the operational research geared to public health which forms part of any national AIDS control programme.