is a Japan

Japan

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ese physician

Physician

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 and public health

Public health

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 expert, who is the former director of the World Health Organization

World Health Organization

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's malaria

Malaria

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 program. He had previously been director of WHO's tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

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 programs for ten years. While at WHO, Dr. Kochi became known for developing -- and then forcefully promoting -- often politically unpopular global public health interventions to fight tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS. He is credited with promoting the Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) -the internationally recommended strategy for TB control that is recognized as a highly efficient and cost-effective strategy - for controlling TB as the most effective public health intervention of the decade, and after 1995 establishing more effective malaria control norms after 2005.

External links

• An Iron Fist Joins the Malaria Wars — by Donald G. McNeil, Jr.; from The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  , 27 June 2006.
• W.H.O. Supports Wider Use of DDT vs. Malaria — by Celia W. Dugger; from The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  , 16 September 2006.
• ARATA KOCHI PROFILE: Fighting Words From WHO's New Malaria Chief — by John Bohannon; from Science
  Science (journal)
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  , 3 February 2006.
• Dots strategy for control of tuberculosis epidemic
• Kochi’s tuberculosis strategy article is a ‘‘classic’’ by any definition - by John A. Sbarbaro, Bulletin of the World Health Organization vol.79 no.1 Genebra 2001

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