AIDSTAR-One | CASE STUDY SERIES November 2012
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                With an FGM prevalence of 75.8% among women aged 15-491, Burkina Faso is classified by UNICEF2 as a ‘moderately high prevalence’ country.  
FGM is practised across all regions, ethnic groups and religions in Burkina Faso.  There are distinct regional variations; FGM prevalence ranges from 54.8%
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                                         in the Centre-West to 89.5% in the Centre-East.  Two-thirds of the population of Burkina Faso live in rural areas, and nearly 10% more women aged 15-49 have had FGM in rural areas (78.4%) than in urban areas (68.7%).  Prevalence in the capital, Ouagadougou, is 64.8%.3
                                    
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                                People in prisons and other places of detention live in a closed environment and in close proximity with one another – conditions that facilitate transmission of diseases. They also have a greater underlying burden of disease and worse health conditions than the general population, and frequently 
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                                        face greater exposure to risks such as smoking, poor hygiene and weak immune defence due to stress, poor nutrition or existing diseases. All these factors make people living in prison more susceptible to infections.
                                    
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                                A comprehensive briefing by Half of Syria
April 2020
A comprehensive briefing on the critical challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic to Syrians, as reported by Syrian civil society organisations. These challenges have been collated following extensive interviews with the teams of member and partner
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                                         organisations working in the field in various sectors: health, child care, education, women’s empowerment, media and culture, research, human rights and accountability, relief and social services, and local governance.
This comprehensive briefing also include concrete recommendations formulated by the Syrian civil society.
                                    
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                                PERC produces regional and member state situation analyses, updated regularly.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                The report underscores that sexual and reproductive health and rights are often the first to be sacrificed during epidemics and that the gains of the past decade must be protected. The report also makes it clear that scarce resources must be focused on the most marginalized women and girls, includin
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                                        g sex workers, gender diverse people, women in prison and migrants and others without proof of employment or residence.
                                    
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                                The report – Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020 – is the first of its kind, charting progress in 155 countries against the “INSPIRE” framework, a set of seven strategies for preventing and responding to violence against children. The report signals a clear need
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                                         in all countries to scale up efforts to implement them. While nearly all countries (88%) have key laws in place to protect children against violence, less than half of countries (47%) said these were being strongly enforced.
The report includes the first ever global homicide estimates specifically for children under 18 years of age – previous estimates were based on data that included 18 to 19-year olds. It finds that, in 2017, around 40,000 children were victims of homicide.
                                    
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                                We will soon be piloting a project titled “Integrating Spirituality into Patient Care” that will form “spiritual care teams” to assess and address patients’ spiritual needs in physician  outpatient  practices  within  Adventist  Health  System,  the  largest  Protestant healthcare  system 
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                                         in  the  United  States.This  paper  describes  the  goals,  the  rationale,  and the  structure  of  the  spiritual  care  teams  that  will  soon  be  implemented,  and  discusses  the barriers  to  providing  spiritual  care  that  health  professionals  are  likely  to  encounter.Spiritual care teams may operate in an outpatient or an inpatient setting, and their purpose is  to  provide  health  professionals  with  resources  necessary  to  practice  whole  person healthcare that includes spiritual care.We believe that this project will serve as a model forfaith-based  health  systems  seeking  to  visibly  demonstrate  their  mission  in  a  way  that makes them unique and expresses their values.Not only does this model have the potential to  be  cost-effective,  but  also  the  capacity  to  increase  the  quality  of  patient  care  and  the satisfaction that  health  professionals  derive  from  providing  care.If  successful,  this  model could  spread  beyond  faith-based  systems  to  secular  systems  as  well  both  in the  U.S. and worldwide.
                                    
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                                Palliative care for children with life-limiting illness is the active total care of the child’s body, mind, and spirit. It begins at diagnosis and continues regardless of whether the child receives treatment directed at the disease. It seeks to control all forms of suffering related to the illness
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                                        , including pain. It involves social, psychological, spiritual, and legal support to siblings, parents, and other close family members. Effective palliative care for children requires health professionals trained to assess symptoms, care for children of different ages and developmental stages, and to provide medicines in pediatric formulations. Care may be provided in tertiary care facilities, community health centers, and at home. The child’s best interest must inform all aspects of the treatment andcare, and the child’s rights must be protected at all times.
                                    
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                                This document is based on currently available scientific evidence on treatment for drug use disorders and sets out a framework for the implementation of the Standards, in line with principles of public health care. The Standards identify major components and features of effective systems for the tre
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                                        atment of drug use disorders. They describe treatment modalities and interventions to match the needs of people at different stages and severities of drug use disorders, in a manner consistent with the treatment of any chronic disease or health condition. The Standards are aspirational, and such, national or local treatment services or systems need not attempt to meet all the standards and recommendations made in this document all at once. However over time, progressive quality improvement, with ‘evidence-based and ethical practice’ as an objective, can and should be expected to achieve better organized, more effective and ethical systems and services for people with drug use disorders.
                                    
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                                The purpose of this document is to contribute to improved recognition of Buruli
ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection) and encourage greater efforts in detecting
cases at an early stage of infection.Today, patients can be cured with antibiotics if
diagnosed early, thus avoiding unnecessary suff
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                                        ering and disability.We hope that
all users of this document will help to achieve these objectives.
                                    
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                                African countries, like many regions of the world, are affected by the legacy of atrocity crimes. Genocide, the transatlantic slave trade and slavery, colonialism and post-independence violence committed during dictatorships, not to mention civil war and violent extremism, have severely violated hum
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                                        an rights and left devastating marks on societies across the continent. The way in which societies deal with violent pasts has profound implications for the present and the future, as well as their chances of building sustainable peace.
Strengthening education about atrocity crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, is an essential part of addressing violent pasts and preventing future atrocity crimes. Echoing a series of United Nations resolutions on the importance of educational measures for genocide prevention,1 in 2013, the Secretary-General’s annual report Responsibility to protect: State responsibility and prevention included the recommendation: “Education curriculums should include instruction on past violations and on the causes, dynamics and consequences of atrocity crimes” as an important means to promote societal resilience to atrocity crimes.
This recognition is in line with the Education 2030 Agenda and, more specifically, target 4.7 of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on Education. This target calls on countries to promote education that fosters sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, a culture of peace, global citizenship and an appreciation of cultural diversity.
                                    
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