WHO/UNAIDS 2017 | Statement
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                A Training Curriculum for Providers
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                How we respond both now and going forward will help mitigate the impact of COVID-19, and to the extent possible preserve children’s rights to Survive, Learn, and Be Protected. We will focus our efforts on the most critical work essential to maintaining these commitments to the extent possible.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                Afghanistan has one of the largest populations per capita of persons with disabilities in the world. At least one in five Afghan households includes an adult or child with a serious physical, sensory, intellectual, or psychosocial disability. More than 40 years of war have left more than one million
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                                         Afghans with amputated limbs and other mobility, visual, or hearing disabilities. Many Afghans have psychosocial disabilities (mental health conditions) such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress, which are often a direct result of the protracted conflict. Other Afghans have pre-existing disabilities not directly related to the conflict, such as those caused by polio.
                                    
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                                This document presents a brief overview of how UNHCR adapts its activities for mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) to the changing context of the pandemic. Staff of UNHCR and partners, in country offices in all regions of the world, have developed innovative field practices to continue pr
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                                        oviding essential MHPSS services to refugees. The examples in this document are testimony to the commitment and creativity of our staff and can serve as inspiration and encouragement for others to continue integrating MHPSS in the humanitarian work during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
                                    
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                                Response strategy for South Sudan to Covid-19 pandemic
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                2020 is a critical year for our Joint Programme as we collectively define the path to getting back on track to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Our revised timelines for adoption of the next strategy are highly ambitious. We need the full support of all the tremendously dedicated people in UNAIDS-w
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                                        ithin our staff, our board and all our stakeholders to make this happen.
                                    
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                                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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                                Key Considerations
This brief focuses on cross-border movement in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and its implications for development of risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) strategies aimed at preventing transmission of COVID-19 in the ESA region. Given the extensive risk of cross
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                                        -border transmission of the virus and the imminent reopening of borders, such strategies are essential to containment efforts
                                    
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                                Five years after a global commitment to Fast-Track the HIV response and end AIDS by 2030, the world is off track. A promise to build on the momentum created in the first decade of the twenty-first century by front-loading investment and accelerating HIV service provision has been fulfilled by too fe
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                                The  National  AIDS  Control  Council  (NACC) continues  to  strengthen  partnerships  with  all stakeholders in the response to HIV and AIDS in Kenya. While recognizing that there is no single preventive approach to reverse the spread of HIV, the faith sector comprising of Faith Communities (FCs) a
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                                        nd Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) have demonstrated  sustained  motivation  and  moral authority with resources and outreach capability to significantly reduce new HIV infections. In addition, they have the power to influence policy changes to address societal, cultural and structural factors that impede individuals’ capacity to prevent HIV infection.  According to Kenya Demographic Health Survey (2014), over 97% of the Kenya population was  reported  to  ascribe  to  religious  affiliation.
                                    
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                                Interim Framework for the South-East Asia Region 28 October 2020
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                The new Global AIDS Strategy 2021--2026, End Inequalities, End AIDS, is a bold approach that uses an inequalities lens to close the gaps preventing progress to end AIDS
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                The toolkit provides practical guidance and tools that can support efforts, including planning and implementation activities, to create dementia-inclusive societies.
The toolkit is divided into two parts. Part I contains background information and a conceptual framework for creating dementia-incl
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                                        usive societies. Part II includes four practical modules, each featuring a series of practical steps and exercises. The four modules focus on: starting a new dementia-friendly initiative (DFI), integrating dementia into an existing initiative, monitoring and evaluation a DFI, and scaling a DFI. The modules can be used together or separately and offer guidance that can be adapted to suit local needs and settings.
                                    
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                                BMC Public Health (2021) 21:299 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10296-9
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                Milestones in the treatment, care and support, Dec 2021
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) experience a high disease burden for epilepsy, a chronic neurological condition.The authors evaluate the cost-effectiveness of community health workers (CHWs) to improve adherence to medication for epilepsy in South Africa. They found that utilizing CHWs to i
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                                        mprove medication adherence was cost-effective.
                                    
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                                The Strategy aims to protect and improve the well-being
of society and of the individual, to protect and promote
public health, to offer a high level of security and well-being
for the general public and to increase health literacy. The
Strategy takes an evidence-based, integrated, balanced and
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multidisciplinary approach to the drugs phenomenon at
national, EU and international level. It also incorporates a
gender equality and health equity perspective.
                                    
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