Millennium Development Goal 8E aims for affordable access to essential medicines. Essential medicines, as defined by WHO, are those that “satisfy the health-care needs of the majority of the population” and that should therefore “be available at all times in adequate amounts”. However, there... is a category of medicines that faces a unique challenge in terms of availability. These are the medicines governed by the international conventions on narcotic and psychotropic substances. “Controlled medicines” is the common definition for pharmaceuticals whose active principles are listed under the 1961 United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs as amended by the 1972 Protocol, such as morphine and methadone; the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, such as diazepam and buprenorphine; and the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, such as ergometrine and ephedrine. The conventions list substances in “Schedules” according to their different levels of potential for abuse and harm, and the commensurate severity of control measures to be applied by countries.
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This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to implement WHO-recommended TB tests and algorithms. It includes the latest recommendations for novel tests for TB diagnosis and detection of drug resistance, as well as the most recent WHO policy guidance for the use of those tests.... The course also describes the processes and steps for implementing a new diagnostic test for routine use within the TB diagnostic network
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UNAIDS | 2016–2021 Strategy
Accessed: 20.11.2019
It's time to deliver differently.
Accessed: 13.11.2019
Best Practices Guidelines
Accessed: 06.11.2019
Specific Issues and a Model of Care
Accessed; 08.10.2019
Zero new HIV infections
Zero Discrimination
Zero AIDS related deaths
Accessed: 04.10.2019
Republic of Armenia
Reporting period: January-December 2015
Accessed: 29.09.2019
Analytical Report
Almaty 2015
Accessed: 26.09.2019
Rapport sur les populations clès
Accessed November 2017
KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation - Your partner in the fight against TB
Accessed November 2017
Lessons from the STEP-TB Project.
Accessed November 2017.
Guidelines for treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosisand patient care
2017 Update
Patients and TB: Improving treatment outcomes through a patient centred approach and access to new treatments
5th TB Symposium – Eastern Europe and Central Asia Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia and Médecins Sans Frontières
22- 23 March , 2016 , TBILISI , GEORGIA
Handout presentations in PDF for illustrating lectures
Accessed May 2014
International Journal of Drug Policy 24 (2013) e91-98
Mental Health First Aid Guidelines
Accessed: 14.03.2019
1.HIV infections – drug therapy. 2.Anti-HIV agents – adverse effects. 3.Anti-retroviral agents. 4.Benzoxazines – adverse effects. 5.Pregnancy. 6.Disease transmission, Vertical - prevention and control. 7.Treatment outcome. I.World Health Organization
Consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection
Accessed: 26.02.2020
This document outlines the working structure and guiding principles for collaboration of COVAX, the Vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A). The working structure of COVAX continues to adapt to emerging needs and the changing trajectory of the pandemic. Some components of... the pandemic response capabilities united under COVAX may eventually be integrated into regional, national and sub national health systems, routine immunization programmes and future global pandemic preparedness and response (PPR) structures. Therefore, the working structures outlined in this document continue to evolve and the document provides a snapshot of the COVAX ways of working in the first half of 2022.
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