50 Years Ago

摘要

The [World Health Organization] programme for the eradication of malaria from the world is reported as having made significant progress in various fields, although handicapped by a persistent shortage of funds. Sixty-one countries are now fully engaged in this programme; in another nineteen, planning has reached an advanced stage, and, in seventeen other areas-mainly in Africa-the Organization is assisting with preliminary work... The World Health Organizations assistance to Governments for the control of yaws, smallpox and tuberculosis, leprosy and various diseases increased significantly during the year. Medical research was intensified on practically all communicable diseases, the main co-ordinated effort being centred on virus diseases and on bilharziasis [schistosomiasis].