Antimicrobial Resistance and our Food Systems - Challenges and Solutions
Johnson CC et al. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2017, 20:21594 http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/21594 | https://doi.org/10.7448/IAS.20.1.21594
While the COVID-19 pandemic threatens all members of society, persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted due to attitudinal, environmental and institutional barriers that are reproduced in the COVID-19 response.
This guide is intended to support teams working directly with communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. It provides general guidance on community engagement during outbreak responses, including how to support an integrated response, as well as outbreak prevention and response.
A list of some of the many free documents and websites that can add to the information in the papers published in this issue of SSMJ. Many are regularly updated. Let us know of other resources relevant to those working in and with South Sudan.
Malawi Internationally recommended key policies uptake
19 August 2022. A monkeypox case investigation form (CIF) has been designed as a tool for Member States and researchers to conduct in-depth epidemiological investigation of suspected, probable and confirmed cases of monkeypox. This form allows to collect data prospectively or retrospectively for bot...h cases and their contacts. The full form is meant to serve as a tool for in-country use and the data are not required to be reported to WHO.
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BMC Medicine 2014, 12:196
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/12/196
mBio, Vol. 6 Issue 2, March/April 2015
Available evidence demonstrates that direct patient contact and contact with infectious body fluids are the primary modes for Ebola virus transmission, but this is based on a limited number of studies. In this review, the authors address what we know and what ...we do not know about Ebola virus transmission. They also hypothesize that Ebola viruses have the potential to be respiratory pathogens with primary respiratory spread.
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