ASIA: Taiwan comes in from the cold*

“Health has no boundaries. Diseases do not respect borders,” says Dr Shiing-jer Twu, director general at the Center for Disease Control in Taipei. Dr Twu, who has a degree in medicine and a Ph D from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is a leader in Taiwan’s attempt to gain observer status at the World Health Organisation.Taiwan has a lot to offer the WHO. In the 1950s, communicable diseases occupied the top 10 positions as causes of death in Taiwan. In the ensuing half century,…

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