The road map sets global targets and milestones to prevent, control, eliminate or eradicate 20 diseases and disease groups as well as cross-cutting targets aligned with the Sustainable Development G...oals. Three foundational pillars will support global efforts to achieve the targets: accelerate programmatic action (pillar 1), intensify cross-cutting approaches (pillar 2) and change operating models and culture to facilitate country ownership (pillar 3).
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The health of the people and health services are in crisis, and together as partners this plan commits us to strategies aimed at achieving our goal... of:
Strengthened primary health care for all, and improved service delivery for the rural majority and the urban disadvantaged.
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The purpose of the toolkit is to bring together existing learning and guidance as a starting point for stakeholders to begin SRH preparedness work. Within ...>the SRH sector the field of preparedness is relatively new and growing. More collective effort is required to further evaluate the impact of preparedness efforts and push the field forward. This effort is a first attempt at a draft guidance for SRH preparedness, and is intended for field testing. The toolkit recognizes the longstanding work of the field of emergency and disaster risk management, and endeavors to bridge that work with the human rights-oriented and peoplecentered field of sexual and reproductive health.
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The report provides the much-needed evidence to design interventions for children in Kenya and as such we urge partners to use this report as a doc...ument for planning for children.
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The CB MHPSS operational guidelines were developed in response to emerging evidence on the determinants of children’s resilience, lessons learned... from the evaluation of existing approaches, and the unique challenges that today’s crises pose for children’s safety, wellbeing and optimal development.
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The well-being of children in sub-Saharan Africa is under siege from all directions since the advent of ...>the COVID-19 pandemic. The region is now suffering its first-ever economic recession, pushing about 50 million people into extreme poverty, a majority of whom are children.
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his revision to the Disaster Management Team’s (DMT) multi-sector response plan for COVID-19 is meant to align the multi-sector ...ibute-to-highlight medbox">plan with the Department of Health’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan issued on 24 April 2020. Additionally, at the time of this version, the Department of Education and Department for Community Development and Religion have also issued their own national COVID-19 response and recovery plans.
The Government’s plan maintains a health sector focus and plans for a ‘worst case’ scenario, articulating the process of progressing into containment and subsequently mitigation of community transmission and on to recovery. It presents an opportunity to improve the core capacities of the whole of government, to see where both health and non-health sectors fit in and respond in the immediate and medium terms, and to adapt to the ‘new normal’ that this coronavirus has inevitably presented
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The new Global Strategy aims to achieve the highest attainable standard of health for all women, children and adolescents, transform ...ttribute-to-highlight medbox">the future and ensure that every newborn, mother and child not only survives, but thrives.
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The report reviews progress with the task of planning and implementing measures necessary to secure a completely polio-free world. It also examines... actions aimed at ensuring successful transfer of polio assets, innovations developed and lessons learned to countries’ public health programmes and other global health priorities
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Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book - 4
Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book -4
Namibia is no exception to the growingglobal concern on the increasing burden of NCDs. Namibia is an upper middle income country with fast economic growth since independence in 1990. ...ttribute-to-highlight medbox">The country is bearing the double burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases and rapid urbanization. There is also high income inequality among the population.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is having far reaching impacts, well beyond the health crisis and needs, with the most severe impacts experienced in ...ass="attribute-to-highlight medbox">the poorest countries and those most vulnerable to humanitarian crises including natural disasters, such as Nepal.
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This revision to the Disaster Management Team’s (DMT) multi-sector response plan for COVID-19 is meant to align the multi-sector ...ribute-to-highlight medbox">plan with the Department of Health’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan issued on 24 April 2020.
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This EISF report provides an analysis of the issues surrounding the relationship between NGO’s and their local partners. It includes a section on the...pan> topic and its background, responsabilities towards the partner organisation and particularly in terms of security, how to enable and help the partner in developing a project from start to finish, the challenges of developing that capacity in the partner organisation. It also includes three anexes, namely a Partner Security Level Assessment, a Checklist of organisational security perspectives and Participants.
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In India, in response to the above and guided by our counterparts in the government of India, the UN agencies have developed ...-to-highlight medbox">the Novel Coronavirus Disease Joint Health Response Plan by UN Agencies and Partners, led by WHO-India, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and with the support of other development partners. The UN in India is also preparing a COVID-19 Socio-economic Response and Recovery Plan, in partnership with the government.
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Antibiotics have been useful in fighting infectious diseases in our country for decades, but because of the overuse and misuse of these agents, an increasing number of organisms are now resistant to them. ...The Philippines, like other Southeast Asian countries, has already been encountering the many challenges of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which include increasing social and economic costs and rising patient mortality. Although considered a global threat, it is already an emerging local health concern which calls for an urgent collaboration among different sectors to provide solutions addressing this growing problem.
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