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List of abbreviations

ACT artemisinin-based combination therapy DANIDA Danish Agency for Development Assistance

AD auto-disabled DALYs disability-adjusted life years

ADB Asian Development Bank DDT dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

ADPC Asian Disaster Preparedness Center DFID Department for International Development
of the United Kingdom
AEFI adverse events following immunization
DOTS directly observed treatment, short-course
AFP acute flaccid paralysis
DPS data presentation system
ARV antiretroviral
DRA drug regulatory authorities
ART atraumatic restorative treatment
DTP3 diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis
APHEN Asia Pacific Health Economists Network
EDL essential drugs list
ASEAN Association of South-East Asian
Nations EIA enzyme-linked immunoassay

AusAID Australian Agency for International EPI Expanded Programme on Immunization

Development
EPP epidemic projection package
BSE bovine spongiform encephalopathy
EQAS external quality assessment schemes
CCA/UNDAF Common Country Assessment/the United
Nations Development Assistance FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the
Framework United Nations

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention FCTC Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control
CCDC Chinese Center for Disease Control
and Prevention FETP field epidemiology training programme

C-FETP Chinese field epidemiology training FHI Family Health International

x programme
GASP Gonococcal Antimicrobial Susceptibility
COMBI communications for behavioural impact Program

CBM community-based monitoring GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services

CHSI Center for Health Statistics and Information

GAVI Global Alliance for Vaccines and
CRS congenital rubella syndrome Immunization

CUP condom use programme GCP good clinical practice

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GDWQ Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality IUD intrauterine device

GIS geographic information systems IYCF Infant and Young Child Feeding

GMP good manufacturing practice JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency

GSS global salmonella surveillance JICWELS Japan International Corporation of Welfare

Services
GTZ Gesellschaft für Technische
Zusammenarbeit KAP knowledge, attitude and practice

GYTS Global Youth Tobacco Survey LEM leprosy elimination monitoring

HACCP hazard analysis critical control point MBDS Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Project

HBV hepatitis B virus MDGs Millennium Development Goals

HELP health emergency in large populations M and E monitoring and evaluation

HRC/AB Health Research Councils or Analogous MMR measles-mumps-rubella

Bodies
MMV medicine for malaria ventures
ICC Interagency Coordinating Committee
MNTE maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination
ICCIDD International Council for the Control of
Iodine Deficiency Disorders MR measles-rubella

ICN International Council of Nursing MSM men who have sex with men

ICD-10 International Statistical Classification of MTP monitoring, training and planning

Diseases and Related Health Problems,
tenth revision NCD noncommunicable diseases

ID-ACT immediate diagnosis and artemisinin NCHADS National Center for HIV/AIDS,
combination treatment Dermatology and STI

IDUs injecting drug users NCR National Capital Region

IHR International Health Regulations NDCC National Disaster Coordination Council

ILO International Labour Organisation NGOs nongovernmental organizations

IMCI Integrated Management of Childhood Illness NIID National Institute of Infectious Diseases

INB-6 6th Intergovernmental Negotiating Body NIP national immunization programme xi

IRLI International Resource Laboratories for NMP national medicines policy

Iodine
NPANs national plans of action on nutrition
ISS immunization services sub-account
NRA national regulatory authority
ITAC International HIV Treatment Access
Coalition OPV oral poliovirus vaccine

ITD intratypic differentiation

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PacELF Pacific Programme for the Elimination of STI sexually transmitted infections
Lymphatic Filariasis
SUMA supply management system
PET post-exposure treatment
SWAP sectorwide approach process
PHAST participatory hygiene and sanitation
transformation TAG Technical Advisory Group

PHC primary health care TDR WHO special programme for research and
training in tropical diseases research
PHEMA Public Health and Emergency Management
in Asia and the Pacific TFI Tobacco Free Initiative

PhilCAT Philippine Coalition Against Tuberculosis TIPS Tuberculosis Initiative Private Sector

PIC Pasteur Institute of Cambodia TT2+ tetanus toxoid

PIRCCM Pacific Island Regional Country TRIPS Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual
Coordination Mechanism agreement Property Rights agreement

PMTCT prevention of mother to child transmission UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS

PPHSN Pacific public health surveillance network UNDAC United Nations Disaster Assessment and
Coordination
PRSP poverty reduction strategy paper
UNDCP United Nations International Drug Control
QMT quality management training Programme

RDTs rapid diagnostic tests UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization
REQAS regional external quality assurance scheme
UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
RHAC Reproductive Health Association of
Cambodia UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund

RITM Research Institute for Tropical Medicine UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome UNTF-DHV United Nations Regional Taskforce on
Drugs and HIV Vulnerability
SIAs supplementary immunization activities
URTI upper respiratory tract infection
SEAMEO Southeast Asian Ministers of Education
Organization USAID United States Agency for International
Development
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TROPMED Tropical Medicine Programme
SPS Agreement on the Application of Sanitary VCT voluntary counselling and testing
Agreement and Phytosanitary Measures
VDPV vaccine derived poliovirus
SNIDs subnational immunization days
WTO World Trade Organization
SPC Secretariat of the Pacific Community
WPACHR Western Pacific Advisory Committee on
STEPS WHO STEPwise approach to Health Research
noncommunicable disease surveillance
WVI World Vision Inc