People Who Inject Drugs
In addition, the following individuals of our external expert advisory committee made instrumental contributions to the initial design and content of the document: Billy Pick, USAID; Daniel Wolfe, Open Society Foundations; Dave Burrows, AIDS Projects Management Group; Fabi...enne Hariga, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Mauro Guarinieri, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Richard Needle, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator; and Sergey Votyagov, EHRN.
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Manual of Operations
First Edition 2016
based on the WHO Bench Aids for the diagnosis of intestinal parasites;
Tutor’s Guide: perform specific laboratory techniques; identify intestinal parasites by genus and species; quantify helminth eggs in faeces by Kato-Katz procedure.
Intended for use primarily by those responsible for developing policies and directing the working practices of nurses, midwives and other frontline health...-care providers, these guidelines aim to promote and strengthen the case against the medicalization of female genital mutilation and support and protect nurses, midwives and other health personnel in adhering to WHO guidelines not to close an opened-up infibulation.
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GUIDELINES FOR AWWs/ASHAs/ANMs/PRIs
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a universal antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all HIVinfected children before the age of two since 2010, but this implies an early identification o...f these infants. We described the Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) cascade, the staffing and the quality of infrastructures in pediatric HIV care facilities, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
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For the Fiscal Year 2014-2015, the Health Sector continued to implement interventions and strategies meant to improve the availability, accessibility and utilization of quality healthcare services a...cross public and private health facilities; and to ensure the reduction of the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Rwanda. This annual report highlights key achievements registered by the health sector during the Fiscal Year 2014-2015. Achievements are highlighted under three big components: Health Programs, Health Systems Support and Budget Execution.
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Ghana is attracting global attention for efforts to provide health insurance to all citizens through the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). W...ith the program’s strong emphasis on maternal and child health, an expectation of the program is that members will have increased use of relevant services. The NHIS does appear to enable pregnant women to access services and allow caregivers to seek care early for sick children, but both the quantitative and qualitative assessments also indicated that the poor and least educated were less likely to have insurance than their wealthier and more educated counterparts.
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The manual contains basic principles of prescribing followed by chapters on medicines used in psychotic disorders; depressive disorders; bipolar disorders; generalised anxiety and sleep disorders; obsessive-compulsive disorders and panic attacks; an...d alcohol and opioid dependence
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Guidelines for good practice. 3rd edition
The Guidelines for Good Practice are intended to help organizations define their own needs in relation to stress management and develop their own staff car...e system. The process will be different for each organization. National and international agencies, big and small organizations, will have to find the process and policies that work for them.
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Consultancy to take forward the International Health Partnership
A Toolkit for Implementation. Module 5: Finalizing, monitoring and evaluating the IFC action plan
Interim practical manual supporting implementation of the WHO guidelines on core components of infection prevention and control programmes
Core Knowledge for Emergency Preparedness and Response
A toolkit for Implementation. Module 3: Participatory community assessment in maternal and newborn health
Assessment and Guidance for Strengthening Integration of Mental Health into Primary Health Care and Community-Based Service Platforms in Ukraine
This 88 page book is designed to help primary care workers understand mental health problems and how they can be treated. Mental health problems fr...om childhood to old age are examined. The book focuses primarily on the Afghan culture but is also relevant to a wider community
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This document introduces four strategic objectives and twelve operational principles for good pharmaceutical procurement. These objectives and principles have been developed and endorsed by the Interagency Pharmaceutical Coordination Group (IPC), i...nvolving the pharmaceutical advisers of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank. The aim of this document is to improve pharmaceutical procurement practices.
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Resource Guide for Advanced Learning