Technical Update
HIV Treatment
July 2017
Responses to epidemics, emergencies and disasters raise many ethical issues for the people involved, including public health specialists and polic...y makers. This training manual provides material on ethical issues in research, surveillance and patient care in these difficult contexts.
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Also published in Spanish (2013) with the title: Informe sobre la epilepsia en América Latina y el Caribe - ISBN 978-92-75-31776-1
This report sets out ways to make pre-hospital care and ambulance services operating in areas of armed violence safer. Written by the Norwegian Red... Cross with support from the ICRC and the Mexican Red Cross, the report summarizes field experience in over 20 countries.
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Technical Report
AIDS Medicines and diagnostics service
September 2016
The report offers an analysis of the broader challenges to securing humanitarian action and recommends areas for improvement. This study will contribute to improving the way humanitarians ‘do busi...ness’ in complex
security environments. Document also available in French, Arabic and Spanish.
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This compendium represents a curated, pragmatic and non-prescriptive collection of tools and resources to support the implementation ...ttribute-to-highlight medbox">of interventions to improve quality of care in such contexts. Relevant tools and resources are listed under five areas: Ensuring access and basic infrastructure for quality; shaping the system environment; reducing harm; improving clinical care; and engaging and empowering patients, families and communities.
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Driving progress towards rabies elimination: Results of Gavi’s Learning Agenda on rabies and new WHO position on rabies immunization
Supplement Article
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Volume 75, Supplement 2, June 1, 2017 www.jaids.com
This interim guidance has been updated with advice on safe and appropriate home care for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and on the public ...x">health measures related to the management of their contacts.
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FAO’s component of the Global COVID-19 Humanitarian Response Plan
18.5.2020
As of June 2019, the number of Venezuelans leaving their country reached 4 million, with Colombia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Brazil hosting the vast... majority of Venezuelans in Latin America. The end of the first half of the year was marked by the announcement of tighter immigration measures in Peru and Chile, which triggered a significant peak in flows from Venezuela entering Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. In response to this, UNICEF Country Offices activated contingency measures and capacities for registration and provision of services were rapidly increased, in coordination with relevant authorities, to face the increased demand.
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The guide summarizes an assessment of War Child Canada’s three-pronged legal protection model as implemented with South Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda ...box">and uses it to identify the most important lessons for ensuring legal protection mechanisms are in place at the onset of an emergency
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This guidance note is intended primarily for health actors working in emergency and disaster risk management (hereafter 'emergency ris...k management') at the local, national or international level, and in governmental or nongovernmental agencies. People with disabilities, those working in the disability sector and those working in other sectors that contribute to improved health outcomes related to emergency risk management, may also find this guidance note useful.
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The module is currently available in English, French, Nepali, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish