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The purpose of these standard operating procedures (SOPs)  is  to  offer  policy  guidance  and  to  provide  performance  standards  on  how  to  respond  to  any  type  of  poliovirus  outbreak  or  event  in  a  timely  and  effective  manner,  and  specifically,  to  stop  an  outbrea
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                                The UNAIDS 2020 global report is a call to action. It highlights the scale of the HIV epidemic and how it runs along the fault lines of inequalities.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic shows that 2020 targets will not be met because of deeply unequal success; COVID-19 risks blowing HIV progress way off course. Missed targets have resulted in 3.5 million more HIV infections and 820 000 more AIDS-related deaths since 2015 than if the world w
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                                        as on track to meet the 2020 targets. In addition, the response could be set back further, by 10 years or more, if the COVID-19 pandemic results in severe disruptions to HIV services.
                                    
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                                Indian J Palliat Care. 2011 Jan; 17(Suppl): S39–S41.
doi: 10.4103/0973-1075.76241
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                Sudan recorded the first COVID-19 case on 13 March 2020 and, at the beginning of July, the Federal Ministry of Health had confirmed that nearly 10,000 people had contracted the virus, including over 600 who died from the disease across the country. Although more than 70 per cent of the confirmed cas
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                                        es are in the Khartoum area, COVID-19 has spread throughout the country, with the highest numbers recorded in the central and eastern states. With extremely low testing capacity — around 800 samples per day, the lowest in the region — the official figures of confirmed cases likely underestimate the extent of the pandemic and the actual situation is unknown.
                                    
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                                Sustainability Science (2019) 14:1343–1354
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                The Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics
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                                Chapter in: Reformed theology today: Practical-theological,  missiological and ethical perspectives
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                Aligned to the Lancet Migration Global Statementto include migrants and refugees incountries’response toCOVID-192, this brief focuses onGreece’s challenges and opportunities to build an inclusive response. Asylum seekers and refugees in Greece are currently placed by the Greek governments in Rec
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                                        eption and Identification Centres(RICs), apartments, hotels and camps across the Greek islands and the mainland, along with a proportion who are homeless. Currently there are six RICson the Greek islands: Vial on Chios island; Pyli on Kos island; Lepida on Leros island; Moria on Lesvos island; and Vathy on Samos, as well asan unofficial camp on Rhodes. Inaddition there are 18 camps in the northern mainland of Greece; 13 camps in the southern mainland of Greece and one in the southern peninsula (Peloponnese).
                                    
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                                On 30thJanuary 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the People’s Republic of China to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) under the international Health Regulations. The following day, the Italian Governm
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                                        ent declared a state of emergency, stopping all flights to and from Chinese airports. 1.2On 7th April the foreign, interior, transport and health ministers signed a decree under theInternational Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue stating that Italian ports could no longer be classified as places of safety for foreign naval units, including NGO-run migrantrescue ships, operating outside the Italian Search and Rescue (SAR) area. Despite the national lockdown and the closure of ports to international rescue vessels in the Mediterranean Sea, small ships departing from Libya and Tunisia have continued to sail towards the Italian coastline. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), during the period 1stJanuary –12thApril, 2020 there were an estimated 3,229 sea arrivals in Italy
                                    
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                                The German Institute for Human Rights annually submits a report on the development of the human rights situation in Germany to the German Federal Parliament (in accordance with sec. 2 para. 5 of the Act regarding the Legal Status and Mandate of the German Institute for Human Rights of 16 July 2015; 
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                                        short: DIMRG). The DIMRG provides that the German Federal Parliament officially responds to the report. The fourth report 2018/2019 covers the period 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.
                                    
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                                This  FAQ  responds  to  questions  revolving around the topic of protecting refugee women and  girls  against  violence.  It  begins  with  a glossary  that  clarifies  key  terms  and  their consequences for female refugees. The glossary will be amended and updated as required on the websites of b
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                                        ff and FHK.
                                    
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                                6 July 2021. Three new nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) classes are endorsed by WHO and included.
The latest operational handbook includes the new classes recommended by WHO. It aims at facilitating the implementation of the WHO recommendations by the Member States, technical partners, and ot
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                                        hers involved in managing patients with TB and DR-TB. The operational handbook provides practical information on existing and new tests recommended by WHO, step-by-step advice on implementing and scale-up testing to achieve local and national impact and lastly, model diagnostic algorithms, which are updated to incorporate the latest recommendations. An overview of budgetary considerations and information sheets on each of the newly recommended tests is provided.
                                    
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                                Men are less likely than women to seek help for mental health issues and are much more likely to commit suicide. This scoping review examined recent evidence published in English and Russian on the role of socially constructed masculinity norms in men’s help-seeking behaviour for mental health iss
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                                        ues. The key sociocultural barriers to men’s help-seeking pertaining to masculinity norms were identified as self-reliance, difficulty in expressing emotions and self-control.
                                    
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                                As daily lives and communities are upended by COVID-19, concern is mounting that children’s exposure to violence may increase. Children with a history of abuse may find themselves even more vulnerable – both at home and online – and may experience more frequent and severe acts of violence. Oth
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                                        ers may be victimized for the first time.
Understanding the current status of violence prevention and response services is therefore essential to assessing risks to children
                                    
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                                The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) showed
that global commitment and collective action
could significantly reduce the disease burdens of
three deadly communicable diseases: HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. The MDGs helped
focus efforts on these three deadly diseases
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                                        disease-specific programmes and
financing, thus achieving significant progress.
                                    
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                                India is experiencing rapid demographic and epidemiological transitions with NCDs causing significant disability, morbidity and mortality both in urban and rural populations and across all socioeconomic strata. According to the ICMR State Level Disease Burden Initiative, in 2016, NCDs accounted to a
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                                        n estimated 6.0 million deaths, constituting 62% of the total mortality of that year.
                                    
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                                As  part  of  our  commitment  to  the  fight  against  NCDs,  Nigeria was  signatory  to  the  political declaration  at  the  UN  General  Assembly  High  Level  Meeting  on  NCDs  in  September  2011. Thus, the purpose of this document is to develop and ensure the implementation of policies and p
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                                        rogrammes  that  will  engender  and  guarantee  a  healthy  lifestyle  and  quality  health  for  all  Nigerians.  The  core  sections  include  background,  scope  of  the  policy,  policy  goal,  strategic  thrusts for implementation, programme management and coordination, roles of stakeholders and partnership  coordination.  It  is  expected  that  with  the  adoption  of  this  policy,  the  control  and  prevention  of  NCDs  and  their  associated  risk  factors  will  be  well  integrated  at  all  levels  of  government  and  health  care  delivery  system  in  Nigeria.  This  policy  document  is  therefore a stepping  stone  towards  the  development  of  guidelines  for  the  prevention  and  management  of  NCDs.
                                    
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