Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 8, Issue 11, 11 March 2004

Since the late 1990s, the combination of atovaquone and proguanil has been commercially available as a fixed antimalarial compound

The Indonesian Ministry of Health has reported 23 857 hospitalised cases of dengue fever

An increase in the number of newly diagnosed HIV infections among men who have sex with men

The HIV epidemic in the Netherlands is changing as a result of increasing life expectancy due to the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) since 1996, and a shift from homosexual to heterosexual transmission that is associated with rising numbers of HIV infected immigrants.

The use of antiretroviral drug combination therapy has had a dramatically beneficial impact on morbidity and mortality of HIV infected individuals

The WHO Regional Office for Europe has recently published guidelines for the surveillance of measles and CRI

This report may be of interest to those involved in the rapid response to communicable disease threats since much of the capacity and resources for rapid response to public health emergencies in Europe and elsewhere are to be found within the field of communicable disease

Public health workers from around Europe will recall 2002/2003 as the ‘winter of norovirus outbreaks’