Background: Excessive intake of sodium is associated with elevated blood pressure, a risk factor that contributes to non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular diseases, and stomach cancer. Interventions and policies to control population-wide salt intake have been shown to reduce sodium consumption and

Abstract Background: Only lamivudine has been included for patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in the National List of Essential Drugs (NLED), a pharmaceutical reimbursement list in Thailand. There have also been no economic evaluation studies of CHB drug treatments conducted in Thailand yet. I

Abstract Objectives In Thailand, axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is the dominant form of treatment for breast cancer, even though the treatment often leaves patients with some degree of arm morbidity. Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SNB) is widely accepted globally as a preferable alternative pr

A cost–utility analysis of alternative drug regimens for newly diagnosed severe lupus nephritis patients in Thailand. Adun Mohara1, Román Pérez Velasco1, Naiyana Praditsitthikorn1,2, Yingyos Avihingsanon3 and Yot Teerawattananon1 1Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP),

บริการ RRTTPR ประกอบด้วย2) การตรวจหาการติดเชื้อเอชไอวีในกลุ่มประชากรหลัก (Test-T)4) การทำให้กลุ่มประชากรหลักมีพฤติกรรมป้องกันการติดเ

We are pleased to announce that the HTAsiaLink annual conference in 2019 will be hosted by National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency (NECA) from the 24th to the 27th April 2019, in Seoul, South Korea. The theme for this conference is ‘Priority Setting for Universal

Welcome all of you to the 7th issue of HTAsiaLink newsletter. This issue comes just before the beginning of our 4th annual conference which will take place in Taipei, Taiwan in May 2015. The conference will focus on sharing experiences of HTA for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Asia. To align wit

This year’s conference was held at La Than Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam from 17th to 19th April 2017 organized by Health Strategy and Planning Institute (HSPI), Ministry of Health, Vietnam. Around 120 participants attended the conference. The theme this year was ‘Health Technology Assessment in designing

The 5th annual HTAsiaLink Conference officially concludes after a four-day intensive gathering of HTA practitioners and experts in Singapore. The conference was jointly organized by the Ministry of Health, Singapore, the Health Services Research Department of the Eastern Health Alliance and the Heal

In this issue, the main article will focused on how HTA units in the Asian-Pacific region communicate with their stakeholders in order to push forward their research result. Secondly, we recently greet our two new members, HealthPact (Australia) and Department of Health (the Philippines), therefo