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Maria Papapanagiotou
Maria Papapanagiotou

This document discusses issues related to public health and security related to immigration and travel. It notes cases where infectious diseases have spread across borders due to gaps in screening and protocols. Specific diseases mentioned include tuberculosis, hepatitis B & C, HIV, and syphilis. Statistics are presented on prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in various Eastern European and Central Asian countries. The document also discusses the challenges facing immigrants who enter countries illegally, including poor health, exploitation, lack of access to healthcare, and risk of disease spread. It proposes various strategies and programs focused on education, community involvement, and cross-border cooperation to help address health issues and disparities.

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Keeping u safe as a traveler Caring for the global health village
 May 2007, the tb patient lands in Athens  He departed from Ur home, Atlanta  He was sent back right away  Reuters , Sept.2007 : The case of Andrew Speaker, who is being treated for multi-drug resistant TB, showed holes in border and aviation security as well as in public health, the Homeland Security Committee report said.
Lets’ land in gr-LIFE cROSS final4
 Illicit immigrants arriving mostly at the islands  ( Lesvos, Chios , Samos )  Swimming( !) to the land under the eyes of national and international detection  Coming from :  - Eastern Europe , former Soviet block  - Middle East  Afganistan  Kurdistan  Pakistan  - Sub –Saharian Africa  Nigeria  Aetheopea
 Middle East + Sub-Saharian Countries UKNOWN  Eastern Europe mdr- tb at MOST error rising nr. by WHO ( 2/2008)  Baku 22,3%  Moldavia 19,4%  Ukraine 16%  Tomst Oblast,Russia 15%  Usbekistan 14,8%  source: bbc news29/2/08
 Eurosurvelliance, May 2008 ECDC:  on hepatitis B ,C  HBV prevalence among immigrants ( in many countries ) →  5-90 times more frequent than general population  HCV HIGHEST in Europe in Bulgaria + Romania ( >_3%)  Greece >2%
 September 2008 , CDC→ recommendations 4 HBV testing:  people born in areas with HBsAg>2%  people born in USA with parents from areas with HBsAg> 2%  people born in Asia +Africa  MSM, illicit injection drug users  ( Morb.and Mortal. Week , 9/2008)  Mandatory the HPV vaccine 4 all female immigrants asking for the green Green Card  Reuters, 7/9/2008  SOS measures like Do Not Board List, quarantine
 “Online-mediated syphilis testing shows promise”, Reuters news , August2008  Dutch paradigm :1998-2004 MSM syphillis cases↑84%  The project: a web portal( info, download referal 4 test, retrieve results in 1 week )  “Significantly more men who needed syphilis treatment were identified through the web site compared with the STI clinic “  50 percent online versus 25 percent at a STI clinic.  "The Internet seems efficient for programs that target a specific population,”  SOURCE: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, August 2008.
 Sanity , health status --------uknown  Exhausted --------- ------------ weak immunity  Desperate (out of hope )---- weaker immunity  Hungry --------------------------ready 2 b sold  Error: prostitution , illicit drugs, illicit working in the native population ( homes , farms, food processing etc)  Illegal -----------------afraid 2 ask 4 medical help  Terrified ------------ told 2 hide themselves from authorities (blackmail from smugglers 4 their relatives back home)
 The Lesvos island paradigm  feel healthy , energy high , lucky  geophysical factors 4 public immunity: sun, sardines , bio food , view , humor  feel compassion for the strangers’ drama  culture of philoxenia -----don’t refer 2 authorities , police  How do they survive ?  Luck + faith,  no prophylaxis
 POTENTIAL ERROR FACTOR  high sexuality  infidelity  -------result : personal danger kept in silence  What if an infectious outbreak occurs ?  Faith – based survival gene  The happy Greek gene
 Surviving from the plague through church praying ceremony  St- THEODOR new Saint  17/2 1798 was abused and murderd in Lesbos for his Christian faith  Historical facts : plague in the Island 1832  huge epidemic for Greeks and Turks, thousands of deaths, city abandoned  Doctors were sent from Istanbul  The miracle: St- Theodor asked in the dreams of faithful  Asked for the pray church ceremony  Turkish authorities gave permission  Doctors disagreed because of the dangers of fatal spread of the epidemic  The plague stop causing any more deaths to Turkish and Greek population
 1995: Harvard University ,Professor Herberd Benson , first mind +body epidemiology research +results  1996 : USLA, San Francisco, first research conducted by healers’ praying for HIV patients  faith, pray and healing 2day epidemiologically assessed
 Awaring the youngsters by a virtual game  Name it : Theo-Door  creating an online religious inter-pray concept  Raising a world-wide antenna  Using kids + youngsters as the sanity vehicle
 Teaching the kids + youngsters in schools , university , internet cafés  What can b the motive? ……  ex. Dengue fever in Brasil ----- free internet access to all volunteers who helped as volunteers  In this case : embrassing also the immigrants’ kids
 Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Action Institue (REHDA)  Training sessions to :  Identify root causes of health disparities in their communities  Develop skills that will allow them to promote awareness of racial and ethnic health disparities among residents, key stakeholders, and change agents of their communities;  Expand and sustain key partnerships to mobilize community and other resources to address health disparities;   Identify components and characteristics for development of successful proposals for public and private funding for interventions to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in their communities;  Identify strategies to employ social justice as an organizing tool for communities to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.
 ………CROSSING BORDERS FOR LIFE  Protecting global public Health , Local Public Safety and Human Rights»  Greece keeping safe the biological gate from East to West

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Lets’ land in gr-LIFE cROSS final4

  • 1. Keeping u safe as a traveler Caring for the global health village
  • 2.  May 2007, the tb patient lands in Athens  He departed from Ur home, Atlanta  He was sent back right away  Reuters , Sept.2007 : The case of Andrew Speaker, who is being treated for multi-drug resistant TB, showed holes in border and aviation security as well as in public health, the Homeland Security Committee report said.
  • 4.  Illicit immigrants arriving mostly at the islands  ( Lesvos, Chios , Samos )  Swimming( !) to the land under the eyes of national and international detection  Coming from :  - Eastern Europe , former Soviet block  - Middle East  Afganistan  Kurdistan  Pakistan  - Sub –Saharian Africa  Nigeria  Aetheopea
  • 5.  Middle East + Sub-Saharian Countries UKNOWN  Eastern Europe mdr- tb at MOST error rising nr. by WHO ( 2/2008)  Baku 22,3%  Moldavia 19,4%  Ukraine 16%  Tomst Oblast,Russia 15%  Usbekistan 14,8%  source: bbc news29/2/08
  • 6.  Eurosurvelliance, May 2008 ECDC:  on hepatitis B ,C  HBV prevalence among immigrants ( in many countries ) →  5-90 times more frequent than general population  HCV HIGHEST in Europe in Bulgaria + Romania ( >_3%)  Greece >2%
  • 7.  September 2008 , CDC→ recommendations 4 HBV testing:  people born in areas with HBsAg>2%  people born in USA with parents from areas with HBsAg> 2%  people born in Asia +Africa  MSM, illicit injection drug users  ( Morb.and Mortal. Week , 9/2008)  Mandatory the HPV vaccine 4 all female immigrants asking for the green Green Card  Reuters, 7/9/2008  SOS measures like Do Not Board List, quarantine
  • 8.  “Online-mediated syphilis testing shows promise”, Reuters news , August2008  Dutch paradigm :1998-2004 MSM syphillis cases↑84%  The project: a web portal( info, download referal 4 test, retrieve results in 1 week )  “Significantly more men who needed syphilis treatment were identified through the web site compared with the STI clinic “  50 percent online versus 25 percent at a STI clinic.  "The Internet seems efficient for programs that target a specific population,”  SOURCE: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, August 2008.
  • 9.  Sanity , health status --------uknown  Exhausted --------- ------------ weak immunity  Desperate (out of hope )---- weaker immunity  Hungry --------------------------ready 2 b sold  Error: prostitution , illicit drugs, illicit working in the native population ( homes , farms, food processing etc)  Illegal -----------------afraid 2 ask 4 medical help  Terrified ------------ told 2 hide themselves from authorities (blackmail from smugglers 4 their relatives back home)
  • 10.  The Lesvos island paradigm  feel healthy , energy high , lucky  geophysical factors 4 public immunity: sun, sardines , bio food , view , humor  feel compassion for the strangers’ drama  culture of philoxenia -----don’t refer 2 authorities , police  How do they survive ?  Luck + faith,  no prophylaxis
  • 11.  POTENTIAL ERROR FACTOR  high sexuality  infidelity  -------result : personal danger kept in silence  What if an infectious outbreak occurs ?  Faith – based survival gene  The happy Greek gene
  • 12.  Surviving from the plague through church praying ceremony  St- THEODOR new Saint  17/2 1798 was abused and murderd in Lesbos for his Christian faith  Historical facts : plague in the Island 1832  huge epidemic for Greeks and Turks, thousands of deaths, city abandoned  Doctors were sent from Istanbul  The miracle: St- Theodor asked in the dreams of faithful  Asked for the pray church ceremony  Turkish authorities gave permission  Doctors disagreed because of the dangers of fatal spread of the epidemic  The plague stop causing any more deaths to Turkish and Greek population
  • 13.  1995: Harvard University ,Professor Herberd Benson , first mind +body epidemiology research +results  1996 : USLA, San Francisco, first research conducted by healers’ praying for HIV patients  faith, pray and healing 2day epidemiologically assessed
  • 14.  Awaring the youngsters by a virtual game  Name it : Theo-Door  creating an online religious inter-pray concept  Raising a world-wide antenna  Using kids + youngsters as the sanity vehicle
  • 15.  Teaching the kids + youngsters in schools , university , internet cafés  What can b the motive? ……  ex. Dengue fever in Brasil ----- free internet access to all volunteers who helped as volunteers  In this case : embrassing also the immigrants’ kids
  • 16.  Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Action Institue (REHDA)  Training sessions to :  Identify root causes of health disparities in their communities  Develop skills that will allow them to promote awareness of racial and ethnic health disparities among residents, key stakeholders, and change agents of their communities;  Expand and sustain key partnerships to mobilize community and other resources to address health disparities;   Identify components and characteristics for development of successful proposals for public and private funding for interventions to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in their communities;  Identify strategies to employ social justice as an organizing tool for communities to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.
  • 17.  ………CROSSING BORDERS FOR LIFE  Protecting global public Health , Local Public Safety and Human Rights»  Greece keeping safe the biological gate from East to West