Responding to infectious diseases in Burma and her border regions 英文参考文献.docVIP

Conflict and Health BioMedCentral Editorial Open Access Responding to infectious diseases in Burma and her border regions Chris Beyrer*1 and Thomas J Lee2 Address: 1Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe St., E 7152, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA and 2School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 924 Westwood Blvd, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, USA Email: Chris Beyrer* - cbeyrer@; Thomas J Lee - tomlee@ * Corresponding author Published: 14 March 2008 Received: 4 March 2008 Accepted: 14 March 2008 Conflict and Health 2008, 2:2 doi:10.1186/1752-1505-2-2 This article is available from: /content/2/1/2 ? 2008 Beyrer and Lee; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction regions and may face government censorship over what data they do have – while groups working on the borders often know a great deal more about their areas of opera- tion – but may be unwilling to openly divulge where and in what domains they are active for security reasons. In January of 2007 an international scientific conference Responding to Infectious Diseases in the Border Regions of South and Southeast Asia was conducted by our col- laborative group, and hosted by the Faculty of Tropical Medicine of Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference was something of a landmark, in that it attempted to bring together groups and individuals work- ing on infectious diseases in Burma/Myanmar proper, those working on her border regions, and concerned rep- resentatives and scientists from the Burma neighbor states of Thailand, China, India and Bangladesh. Some 190 rep- resentatives fro