A consolidated set of reproductive health kits for use by humanitarian agencies. These kits are intended to speed up the provision of appropriate reproductive health services in emergency and refugee situations.
This Framework offers a coherent approach for eliminating tuberculosis (TB) in low-incidence countries. It is designed to guide national policy-makers and those responsible for technical aspects of the national TB response in accelerating ...s="attribute-to-highlight medbox">efforts towards elimination. The document will also be informative for public health surveillance officers, practitioners and nongovernmental and civil society partners working on natioal TB care and prevention and serving the populations most vulnerable to TB.
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Learning from earthquake relief and recovery operations
Updated September 2021.
Provision of water and sanitation and good hygiene practices play an essential role in protecting human health during all disease outbreaks, including during Ebola Virus Di...sease (EVD) outbreaks. This question and answer document provides practical, evidence-based recommendations on minimum requirements and best practices for water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH). It was originally developed in 2014 during the West Africa Ebola Outbreak and has been updated in 2021 to reflect lessons learned and new operational research data. The key recommendations on WASH remain the same.
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A review of current literature and up date data from the field, April 2015.
This report has been published in part in J Hosp Inf. 2015;90:1-9.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=ebola+nosocomial+shears
Essential obstetric and newborn care is designed as a tool to help protect mothers and their children in adverse environments. It is intended for midwives, doctors with obstetrics training, and heal...th care personnel who deal with obstetric emergencies.
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The new WHO guidelines recommend that people living with HIV be started on antiretrovirals (ARVs) as soon as possible after being diagnosed. Currently, many people living with the virus globally must wait until their CD4 counts fall to 500 to start treatment. According to the WHO, the move to ...class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">early treatment –or what some have dubbed the “test and treat” model –is backed by the latest research.
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Dieser Bericht behandelt Rechtsvorschriften und Verfahren im Zusammenhang mit dem Zugang von Migranten in einer irregulären Situation zu medizinischer Versorgung in zehn EU-Mitgliedstaaten. ...lass="attribute-to-highlight medbox">Er konzentriert sich auf Migranten in einer irregulären Situation, nämlich jene die Einreise- oder Aufenenthaltsbedingungen nicht erfüllen.
Für Versionen in Französisch, Polnisch und Schwedisch siehe auch http://fra.europa.eu/de/publication/2012/migranten-einer-irregulren-situation-zugang-zu-medizinischer-versorgung-zehn
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This report aims to estimate the economic cost of providing regular access to healthcare for migrants in an irregular situation, compared with the cost of providing treatment in ...te-to-highlight medbox">emergency cases only. Two specific medical conditions – hypertension and prenatal care – were selected as examples, and their associated costs were calculated using an economic model. This model was then applied to three EU Member States: Germany, Greece and Sweden. The testing suggests that providing access to regular preventive healthcare for migrants in an irregular situation
would be cost-saving for governments.
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Solomon Islands pharmacy staff have developed an essential medicines supplies list. It was a collaborative effort involving a lot of staff taking the pictures and putting it all together. The list w...as launched as an initiative to improve the availability of medical stock within the country
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Effective implementation of WHO PEN, combined with other very cost effective population-wide interventions, will help even resource constrained set...tings to attain the global voluntary targets related to reduction of premature mortality and preventionof heart attacks and strokes.
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