Lessons and best practices in empowering pastoralist communities to prevent HIV infection and reduce the impact of AIDS in Ethiopia. Briefing Paper
Child Survival Working Group
Accessed: 26.10.2019
Helping Children Live with HIV offers a holistic approach by building on the existing knowledge of parents and caregivers and respecting the importance of other local resources. It integrates ...class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">health care, illness prevention, and psychosocial support for children and families coping with poverty, food insecurity, emotional trauma, loss, as well as stigma and discrimination.
This guide is intended for broad use by parents, family members, and health workers in home settings and throughout community-based health programs.
To learn more, view the table of contents and a sample chapter, and to buy your copy of this essential new resource from Hesperian.
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District Level M & E Training and Reference Material for Primary Health Care Programmes
A guide for doctors providing health services for children. 2nd edition
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Addendum to meeting report: Regional consultation on HIV epidemiologic information in Latin America and the Caribbean
This new edition and fully updated publication replaces the 2012 UCG and is being circulated free of charge to all public and private sector prescr...ibers, pharmacists, and regulatory authorities in the country
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Please download the latest report from the official website:
http://www.nacp.go.tz/site/publications/epidemiology-and-research-coordination
District Level M & E Training and Reference Material for Primary Health Care Programmes
Vitamin D deficiency is thought to be common among pregnant women, particularly during the winter months, and has been found to be associated with an increased risk of pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus, preterm birth, ...te-to-highlight medbox">and other tissue-specific conditions.
This guideline is intended for a wide audience including policy-makers, their expert advisers, and technical and programme staff at organizations involved in the design, implementation and scaling-up of nutrition actions for public health.
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Children's Health and the Environment WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Or...ganization
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n the countries of the Region of the Americas, there are different forms of organization of health services at the first level of care. Some countries include certain laboratory, dental and diagnost...ic imaging practices in the first level of care, while other countries centralize these practices in the second and third levels of care. Consequently, so that the List of Priority Medical Devices (LPMD) could be adapted to these different forms of organization of health systems in the region of the Americas, modular lists were developed that complement the main list. In this way, to use the LPMD, only those modules that are planned to be offered in a first-level care center are selected, and it is those lists that are analyzed.
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General practitioners and pediatricians must know the signs and
symptoms of possible pediatric cancer.
Framework of Indictors and Targets
These guidelines for the prevention and management of cardiovascular diseases are a critical ingredient for streamlining care across the entire health services provision continuum. They ... are a strategic component in achieving universal health coverage, securing affordable health care and improving the livelihood of all Kenyans which in turn will guarantee a healthy nation working towards sustainable development and prosperity.These guidelines bring to the fore the need for availability of skilled human resource, sustained adequate funding and partnership building at all levels of governance. It provides clear roles for health workers at the different levels of our devolved system which will ensure a harmonized referral system with basic cardiovascular diseases treatment services available closest to the people while decongesting the county and national referral facilities.
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District Level M & E Training and Reference Material for Primary Health Care Programmes
UNAIDS and the World Health Organization have published this updated guidance on ethical considerations in HIV prevention trials. The new guidance is the result of a year-long process that saw more ...than 80 experts and members of the public give inputs and is published 21 years after the first edition appeared.
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Rapid review and case studies from Member States
A guide to increasing coverage and equity in all communities in the African Region
Expanded Programs on Immunization (EPI) is responsible for vaccines and vaccination to control, eliminate ...n class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and eradicate vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs). Having strong immunization systems to deliver vaccines to those who need them most will play a significant role in achieving the health, equity and economic objectives of several global development goals.
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