The case of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
| Autor: | Nelson Martins, Constantino Lopez, Rui Maria de Araujo, Einar Heldal, Jaime Sarmento |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
National Health Programs Refugee media_common.quotation_subject Population Antitubercular Agents World Health Organization Disasters Environmental protection Medicine Humans Socioeconomics education Tuberculosis Pulmonary media_common education.field_of_study business.industry Public health Religion and Medicine Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Catholicism Unrest language.human_language Democracy Independence Directly Observed Therapy Indonesian Indonesia language Portuguese business Round Table |
| Zdroj: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 85(8) |
| ISSN: | 0042-9686 |
| Popis: | The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste was a Portuguese colony for 400 years, and was under Indonesian occupation for 25 years. After the population’s overwhelming vote for inde-pendence in August 1999, militia supported by the Indonesian military destroyed 70% of the country’s infrastructure; several thousand people were killed; and hundreds of thousands spent months as refugees in the mountains or outside the country. Following this unrest, the United Nations administered the country until independence in May 2002. Despite this com-plex emergency, the National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP) was established quickly and had one of the highest rates of new smear-positive tuberculosis (TB) in Asia (Fig. 1): the treatment success rate of over 80% |
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