This Country Profile provides comprehensive information on FGM in Senegal, detailing current research on FGM and providing information on the polit...ical, anthropological and sociological contexts in which FGM is practised. It also reflects on how to strengthen anti-FGM programmes and accelerate the eradication of this harmful practice. The purpose of this report is to enable those committed to ending FGM through the provision of information to shape their own policies and practice to create positive, sustainable change.
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Information and Approaches for developing Country Settings
Country statistics and global health estimates by WHO and UN partners | For more information visit the Global Health Observatory (http://www.who.int/gho/en/)
Country statistics and global health estimates by WHO and UN partners | For more information visit the Global Health Observatory (http://www.who.int/gho/en/)
It is intended to provide basic country information, disaster management plans and structures , and key information about domestic disaster respons...e entities and indigenous and international humanitarian actors present in the country
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Source: Country statistics and global health estimates by WHO and UN partners. For more information visit the Global Health Observatory: https://www.who.int/gho/en
The information in this report is up-to-date as of June 2016.
The report, which follows a field visit to the country between 28 May and 6 June, also emphasises the need for international organisa...tions to be mindful of the long present efforts of Greek lawyers and NGOs in the field, and recommends that new initiatives should be targeted and sustainable.
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The report is based on comprehensive information collected at representative sample health facilities all over the country by well-organized and trained teams during May and August 2015. This is a c...ontinuation of 2014 Assessment activities and findings also reflect comparison between two consecutive years.
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This entry contains the Status Report of WHO Collaborating Centres in the Americas by Country and a new document with information of Collaborating Centres by Outcome of the St...rategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization 2020‑2025.
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This guide includes information relevant for tuberculosis (TB) program and laboratory managers, as well as Ministry of Health officials across disease programs interested in establishing integrated solutions for specimen referral. Though TB-focused ...in name, it offers integration-oriented assessment, design, and monitoring guidance related to improving coordination and efficiency, and is relevant for other programs as well. Country case studies include viral load and early infant diagnosis (EID) in Uganda and EID in Ethiopia.
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This guide provides national stakeholders and advocates with information and guidance to update the national essential medicines list to include a new commodity, a new indication, or a new formulation based on the available evidence and based on ...an class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">country need and disease burden. While the actors, timeline, and process may vary from country to country, this guide presents the broad steps involved in revising an EML for any health commodity. Additional resources and a glossary are included to provide supplemental information and to clarify key terms.
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This resource pack was developed for the country offices of the World Health Organization and national Public Health institutions, as an overview of the key information needed for advising their Mem...ber States in response to questions raised on human health due to influenza outbreaks or detections in animals. It assembles the available information from WHO, FAO and WOAH, on recommendations and guidelines on influenza that might be relevant to a country experiencing detections or outbreaks of influenza in animals or facing suspicion of human infections with animal-origin influenza viruses. This resource pack updates the information provided in the Summary of Key Information Practical to Countries Experiencing Outbreaks of A(H5N1) and Other Subtypes of Avian Influenza, published in 2016. Additionally, the scope of this current document was broadened to address the risks to public health from all animal influenza viruses, not only avian influenza. Links to existing resources were updated and new resources were added where available.
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The Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) Data Portal provides comprehensive information on NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases. It offers country-sp...ecific data on mortality rates, risk factors, and national responses, enabling analysis and comparison across regions. The portal also includes resources such as publications and tools to support global efforts in NCD prevention and control.
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The Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) Data Portal provides comprehensive information on NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases. It offers country-sp...ecific data on mortality rates, risk factors, and national responses, enabling analysis and comparison across regions. The portal also includes resources such as publications and tools to support global efforts in NCD prevention and control.
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The Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) Data Portal provides comprehensive information on NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases. It offers country-sp...ecific data on mortality rates, risk factors, and national responses, enabling analysis and comparison across regions. The portal also includes resources such as publications and tools to support global efforts in NCD prevention and control.
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The APCA Atlas provides the most up-to-date information of palliative care development in nearly all countries in Africa, using indicators derived, rated, and chosen by in-country African experts fo...llowed by a thorough Delphi consensus process with a panel of international experts on palliative care indicators
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10th edition
The IDF Diabetes Atlas 10th edition provides detailed information on the estimated and projected prevalence of diabetes, globally, by region, country and territory, for 2021, 2030 and ...2045. It draws attention to the growing impact of diabetes across the world and highlights proven and effective actions that governments and policy-makers must urgently take to tackle it.
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This Rapid Gender Analysis provides preliminary information and observations on the different needs, capacities and coping strategies of Venezuelan migrant and refugee women, men, boys, and girls in Colombia. It seeks to understand how gender roles ...and relations have changed as a result of the crisis and share recommendations for how the humanitarian community can more effectively consider these changing dynamics to better meet the different needs of women, men, boys and girls of different ages, abilities and other contextually relevant forms of diversity. The refugee and migrant crisis in Colombia is characterized by gendered dynamics and has taken a significant toll on the health and welfare on all those affected, but particularly on women and girls. Refugee and migrant women and girls face profound vulnerabilities as they leave Venezuela and either cross Colombia or stay in various locations across the country; this is even more the case for those at increased risk, such as indigenous populations, adolescent girls, etc.
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General Objectives
1. Share information on the progress of your preparation, including response capabilities, plans and procedures to identify and respond to an imported case of COVID-19 in your country....
2. Identify areas of interdependence between health actors and other sectors
3. Conduct gap analysis based on the COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP)
4. Develop an action plan to enhance your level of readiness, based on the SPRP.
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This Guidance Document provides practical assistance to Country Offices scaling up programmes to manage SAM in young children. It outlines a step-by-step process through which countries can analyse their current situation, identify barriers and bott...lenecks through the MoRES approach, and plan action to scale-up treatment. In particular it addresses the challenge of supporting governments to accelerate and sustain scale-up, build national capacities and source reliable and sustained supplies and financing for managing SAM. This document also provides complementary background information, references to international technical recommendations, resources and tools.
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