Public Health Risk Analysis and Surveillance
Public Health Surveillance Protocol Tuberculosis
Panam Salud Publica. 2021;45:e22. https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2021.22
Standard Operating Procedures for Procurement in the Public Health Sector. Updated 2006.
Act 851 | AN ACT to revise and consolidate the law relating to public health to
prevent disease, promote, safeguard, maintain and protect the health
of humans and animals and to provide for related matters.
Le présent manuel fournit les directives actualisées à l'intention des médecins, infirmiers et laborantins confrontés à la tuberculose multirésistante (TB-MR). Il remplace la version élaborée en 2007 et s’est enrichi de l’expérience pratique de six années. Il s’appuie sur les recomm...andations de l’OMS de 2011.
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TB remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, second only to COVID-19, and drug-resistant TB strains are still a major concern. In the fight against TB, urgent investment is critical, especially in the context of the ongoing pandemic.
The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 118 events in the region. This week’s main articles cover the following events:
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Togo
Measles in Chad
Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The proposed roadmap includes components and recommended actions to eliminate these neglected infectious diseases from the Americas.
The policy of repression in Venezuela has been based on the coordination of attacks and stigmatizing messages broadcast by media with links to Nicolás Maduro’s government and politically motivated arbitrary arrests by the security forces under his command, with a marked pattern of political discr...imination, concludes new research published today by Amnesty International in conjunction with the Foro Penal and the Centro para los Defensores y la Justicia (CDJ).
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Policy Brief. More languages available here https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/179517
WHO Information Leaflet COVID-19: Considerations on tuberculosis (TB) care