This factsheet describes the work and activities of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Mozambique as well as its impact in this country.
Key findings from a February 2021 survey from the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC)
The humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) has further worsened over the past six months. Election-related violence that broke out in mid-December 2020 has had a devastating effect on civilians. Thousands of people have been forced to flee, human rights violations have surged, ...hundreds of schools and dozens of hospitals have been forcibly closed and food prices have skyrocketed. This deterioration occurred in an already alarming context, with more than half of the population (2.8 million people) in need of humanitarian assistance and protection and 1.9 million people in acute need. In the past five years, there have never been as many people in humanitarian distress in CAR as today.
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The number of people facing acute food insecurity1 is growing at an alarming rate in the European Union (EU) Member States of Central Eastern Europe. COVID-19 and the resulting disruption to global markets, trade, and food supply chains have negatively affected food security since 2020; now, this ha...s been compounded by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Women and girls who have been displaced from Ukraine into Hungary are facing tremendous obstacles to their safety and wellbeing, particularly given the link between food insecurity and gender-based violence (GBV). Urgent policy responses and concrete actions are needed to support low-income households and vulnerable communities, particularly women and their families displaced from Ukraine, to stem this growing crisis.
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Обобщающий термин, охватывающий широкий диапазон методов психологической и поведенческой терапии, реализуемых с помощью цифровых/компьютерных технологий (час...о используется взаимозаменяемо с понятиями компьютерная терапия или терапия с помощью компьютера). Такой вид помощи можно оказывать разными путями: через персональный компьютер, интернет, интерактивную систему ответа на телефонные звонки, или их комбинации. К еТерапии можно отнести «тематические терапевтические чаты» и терапию с помощью электронной почты.
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The growing problem of child marriage among Syrian girls in Jordan
The goal of this course is to provide participants with the foundational skills needed to begin the development, implementation and ongoing improvement of a congenital anomalies surveillance programme, in particular for countries with limited resources. It focuses on the methodology needed to devel...op either population-based or hospital based surveillance programmes.
A set of congenital anomalies will be used as examples throughout this course. The specific examples used are typically severe enough that they would probably be captured within the first few days after birth, have a significant public health impact and, for some of them, have the potential for primary prevention.
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Lessons learned in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia & Mozambique 2009 - 2011