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January 2014 | Volume 9 | Issue 1 | e86616
Second interim report to the SMAC program, DFID Freetown
This report provides further output from an anthropological study of 25 villages affected by Ebola Virus Disease in eastern and central Sierra Leone, undertaken as part of the DFID-funded soc...ial mobilization initiative for Ebola prevention in Sierra Leone. Eight focus group transcripts for 3 villages in Kenema District are presented, covering local responses to health issues, and Ebola in particular. Supporting material from a matching questionnaire-based study of health behavior and perceived causes of Ebola is also provided. Of particular relevance are two summary tables aggregating the questions villagers asked survey teams about Ebola and quarantine-related issues in villages where the epidemic has in effect ceased to be active
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Case Studies on Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa
Multilingual guide on the topic of protective vaccination for migrants in Germany.
The guide is available in 16 languages: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, German, English, French,
Greek, Italian, Kurdish, Persian, Polish, Romanian,
Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Spanish, Turkish. For the versions i...n other languages go to http://www.ethno-medizinisches-zentrum.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=37&Itemid=40
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The military offensive by the Russian Federation in Ukraine which began February 2022 has triggered one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement and humanitarian crisis, with geopolitical and economic ripples felt across the globe. The ongoing war has caused large-scale disruptions ..."attribute-to-highlight medbox">to the delivery of health services and a near-collapse of the health system. But the crisis also saw an extraordinary mobilization and crisis response to a health emergency by WHO and its more than 100 partners.
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Agenda item 5, UNAIDS/PCB (43)/18.
11-13 December 2018 | Geneva, Switzerland
UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
Issue date: 23 November 2018
Joint WHO/ILO guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent HIV infection.
An international field study by African and German theologicans and health workers.
Toolkit
HIV Treatment and Care
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December 2013 | Volume 8 | Issue 12 | e82027
Anema et al. AIDS Research and Therapy 2011, 8:13 http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/8/1/13
UNAIDS 2018 / Guidance
Guidance for policy-makers, and people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV
The UNAIDS 2020 global report is a call to action. It highlights the scale of the HIV epidemic and how it runs along the fault lines of inequalities.